Slove

Slove: noun. A slove is, quite conventionally put, a slave to love - a person who cannot imagine life without being constantly infatuated with romance. However, the former meaning of the word was far more prosaic. Up until the 1980s, a slove was simply a slowly working stove - something that, however, became so rare by the end of the decade that in order to save the word, the MREL decided to change its meaning to make it suitable for more widespread use. This change was very welcome by a nation up in the Balkans that was for a long time unsure what to call itself. It just so happened that the recent change of the word's meaning made the Yugoslavian headlines and a new nation was born - Slovenia, the land of the sloves (it seems that they must have misinterpreted the word, thinking of it far more positively than it truly was).