Do you ever search in vain for exactly the right word? Perhaps you want toarticulate the vague desire to be far away. Or you can’t quite convey that oddurge to go outside and check to see if anyone is coming. Maybe you’restruggling to express there being just the right amount of something – not toomuch, but not too little. While the English may not have a word for it, thegood news is that the Greeks, the Norwegians, the Dutch or possibly the Inuitsprobably do.Whether it’s the German spielzeug (that instinctive feeling of ‘rightness’) orthe Indonesian jayus (a joke so poorly told and so unfunny that you can’t helpbut laugh), this delightful smörgåsbord of wonderful words from around theworld will come to the rescue when the English language fails. Part glossary,part amusing musings, but wholly enlightening and entertaining, The Greeks Hada Word For It means you’ll never again be lost for just the right word.