Ok, I am weird. Words are so fascinating to me. What cracks me up is the way people misuse language - making up their own words, mispronouncing words, and being generally redundant or peculiar. Then, there's my quirk of having certain words cause me to shudder. Whatever it is, I just don't like the sound of some. So here are some interesting ones for your reading pleasure.

Monday, September 11, 2006

Sounds good... but it's not real

Liz Carey used this one today...

Re-familiarize.
Sounds legit... but not so. You can familiarize yourself with something, but how can you re-familiarize yourself with something you are already familiar with? We had a laugh over that one.

Saturday, September 02, 2006

Weekly words

I have a few revisements on the document. How about revisions?

The word bulge really bothered me this week.

People often say wheelbarrel instead of wheelbarrow (bare-oh).

Adrianna's despised words:
Pus
Saliva
Deceased
Corpse
Paradigm
Postulate
Ain’t

Words she likes to say because they sound like their meaning or they are just fun:
Forlorn
Pop
Snap
Crack / cracker
Actually
Progressive
Adore / adoration
Catapult
Purge
Drat