Happy to answer, I hope this quick list will be satisfactory despite its messiness:

- numbers make the order (more) significant, making reordering the text more costly

- compared to numbers, words are often easier to spot and jump to

- compared to numbers, the words have some connection to the point (not saying I do this perfectly!) so you don't have to remember which (number) footnote you were looking for

- ADHD

- herbalessence because coriander is a herb, and Maybe some people even have coriander scented soap

- daftpunk because 'Around the World (around the world)'

It's a fun style of writing OP probably grew up reading, Terry Pratchett is a good example. They're asides.

Thank you! I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on with the bracketed words.

I didn't try very hard, because the post was already heavy down voted and I thought maybe there just wasn't much sense to be made of it, but I'm glad someone explained.

Suffice it to say I would rather deal with numbers out of order than random words.