my sister and her friends went through a phase where they declared that every day they would use a word with at least as many syllables as marmalade in their conversations. whenever this happened, the others would nod in approval and declare, "marmalade!"
today i woke up to a new word - cymotrichous. this is a word, so obscure, my spell-checker has underlined it and suggested that perhaps i wished to say meretricious or polymorphous or maybe even dichotomous. so now, even though my hair is not cymotrichous being, instead, a probably obnoxious person, wearing meretricious jewellery, at a dinner party may refer to it as ulotrichous. i would then realise that, after several hours of a polymorphous evening, the room had become dichotomous and i was standing on the wrong side.
i would then shift over to the meat and potatoes, no-thesaurus-needed section and grab a cocktail. because sometimes you tire of marmalade and just want a little jam.
2 comments:
This was really funny!
And thanks to my Greek heritage, i didn't need the dictionary :-))
Thanks Dodo! I think I may need some lessons in Greek so that I can expand my marmalade collection ;-)
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