I was reading about the medial S over lunch (that S that looks like a lowercase F in old documents), and I quietly said, "I love my job."
My husband, who is a little hard of hearing, asked, "All hope is lost?"
Yes, my love, same number of syllables, and I say that a lot too, but not today.
Now I'm reading about the Republic of Letters, and I came across a word I hadn't seen before: "salonnières."
This was the name for women who held influential salons before the French Revolution.