Here's a word I hadn't known, from an article in last Sunday's New York Times, titled, "And They All Died Happily Ever After".

Readers overwhelmingly prefer happy endings to sad ones, and yet characters die all the time, for all kinds of reasons. [examples] … Would we prefer that Emma Bovary didn't swallow the poison and instead became a clochard, cadging francs at the agricultural fair?

Interesting etymology, at the link.

Wow, having been on the board of directors of a disabilities group, I can tell you that persons with disabilities would not approve of that etymology!

See also the discussion of the Albanian word kloshar at https://wordcraft.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/63510244...041078671#4041078671