Six Words That Need to Be Banned From the English Language
This immediately made me think of my friend Veronica, who shares the author's hatred of the word moist. I don't hate moist particularly, but I do have a personal shortlist of words I dislike, including veggies, ooze, spurt, congeal, panties, and greasy - that last especially when it's pronounced greezy, the way my high-school journalism teacher (a nebbishy little man with the worst dandruff I have ever seen on another human being), always said it. If you could combine those six words into one sentence it would probably kill me.
I do like pulp in my orange juice, though. I would totally buy a carton labeled "Holy Shit Pulp" if I could find one. G is completely grossed out by both pulp and OJ, and I enjoy walking into her room with a tall, cold glass and announcing "I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to drink my PULPY JUICE now. MMMM PULP." Hey, I've got to entertain myself somehow.
3 comments:
Ugh. My mother in law says greezy and many other horrible insults on the English language.
Oh man, panties used to drive me up a wall, but I have taught it to my little one for some strange reason and hearing her say it 18 times a day kinda has worn the power off of it a bit. I don't like curb. It feels abbreviated to me. And random. Like, WHY is that called a curb and not a pert or a snip or some other such 4 letter combination. Anyway, thanks for the funny read, I torment my daughters as often as possible with dancing while driving.
I do hate that word. And I always will. :P So there.
And eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek. I am with G about the pulp. If I wanted that much pulp, I'd eat the orange, not drink it.
; )
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