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.

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

posted by Jay at 5:38 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

onomonopoeia is the term for such words that sound like what they are describing. Languages are filled with such words. One of my favorites is the Greek word "emptuo", which means 'to spit.'

11:52 AM

 

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