I like words. I like to learn new ones. To spell them corectly correctlly correctly. I even have the word-of-the-day on my igoogle page.
The other day I thought about the word “column”– as in a newspaper column. People who write columns are called columnists. It just hit me that that word came about because uh…the article in the shape of a COLUMN on the page. How funny that the word “column” stuck! You’d think columnists would want a better title–something not named after the shape of their job.
Another word I love is “cops”. You know, as in the police, the fuzz, the po-po. Supposedly the word cops comes because of back in the day when policemen had copper buttons. People referred to them as coppers, then shortened it to cops. I’m sure it was a derogatory term at first, but now policemen even refer to themselves as cops!
Do you ever watch Inside the Actor’s Studio? One of the questions James Lipton always asks the celebs is, “What’s your favorite word?” I saw Renee Zellweger answer, “corn”. I don’t know why this struck me as so funny and I still remember it. Corn?! That’s her favorite word?! I guess it is kind of weird to say. Corn. Corn. Corn. Corn.
A few other words I like:
Debris. I can’t help it. It makes me laugh to pronounce it “deb-ris”.
Coagulate. Is that the sickest word ever?! gag.
Chocolate. For obvious reasons.
What’s your favorite word?
slumber. Because that’s what I’m supposed to be doing right now, having worked till 1:30 in the morning last night. But ALAS (there’s another good one) the baby likes to, you know, wake up in the morning. These kooky kids!
stuck. because its Saturday and i m still at the office working, half of my co-workers have left and the lazy ones like me are left.
cake…I love the way it sounds and the feeling of expectancy that it evokes in my mind. You can’t say the word cake when bad things are happening in your life. Cake is all about good times.
Shampoo – it just sounds funny to me.
Detroit – because Americans have butchered the word, it’s suppose to be pronounced Deh-twah.
I had heard that the word/term Christian was originally meant to be an insult to the early followers of Christ. Do you know if that is true?
Words…
Honestly, I like to make up words or rather add endings to existing words.
For instance, on my grocery list, I may put the word frozenness down for random frozen items. It shortens it for me and makes me feel happy.
I am weird. I admit it right here, right now. I need help.
I used to really love the word “Olympiad” and I also loved the phrase “orphan asylum.” The latter one-isn’t that kinda sick? I still love “olympiad” though.
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I don’t have a favorite word, but I think “egg” is funny.
Right now I have two favorites… the first is believe. I have tons of word art covering the room we do Izzy’s therapy in and also the entry room of our home. I love the word believe! More for what it means than how it sounds though. I also love the word Jesus. I love saying it, hearing it, the power it contains and the love it embodies.
Great post Amanda.
I’m intrigued by the word “commentator.” You hear it a lot during sportscasts. The hosts are referred to as commentators.
Seems to me the word should be commentor, since they’re offering comments on the game.
I also am curious as to why some folks talk about getting “orientated” to something. Isn’t the idea to orient yourself rather than orientate?
I love the word minute -not the unit to measure time, but the different meaning for the same word: tiny, very, very small. It is just so fun to say! I need to work it into more conversations….
I like the word “IKEA”, the store name, because my friend, Kicki, a long time ago, who is from Sweden, taught me how to pronounce it correctly, and now I just like to say it, over and over and over :c)
I also really like the words “really” (ha), “pretzel”, “fascinate” and “soda”. I like to say “soda” over and over. Kinda like how I like to say “dude” to my hubby over and over just to annoy him to death :c)