Why this word is great
LICHYARD — [Noun] A graveyard or burial ground, specifically an old churchyard. From Middle English lich ("corpse, body") + yard ("enclosure, garden"), literally meaning "a yard or enclosure for corpses." Unlike "cemetery," with its sanitary and administrative air, or "necropolis," which evokes a grand, stone city of the dead, a lichyard is modest, moss-bound, and intimately knit to the living parish. It is the uneven tilt of slate markers sheep-cropped to illegibility, the cold scent of turned earth and damp yew, and the silent congregation of names worn smooth by centuries of rain—a quiet argument against oblivion, written in stone and lichen.