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...endangered by serpents, savages, tigers, poisonous miasmas, with all the other common perils incident to wandering in the heart of unknown regions.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 45
That's what I always think when I see this word!
HA!!
"Seamus, why are ya weezin'?"
"Ach, it's miasma."
I object to mia part of it. No syllable of mine should ever be constrained to be a constituent part of such an ugly-smelling word, ugh. Mia smells like roses.
I never see this word without thinking "fetid" in front of it.
"It's miasma," he said breathlessly.
The plural is listed as mismata.