Lee, I'm so glad to have made the UNM connection with you! Thanks for signing up for my substack. As you can see, I've neglected it. Maybe you will inspire me to post more often.
My mother washed my mouth with soap once, or tried to. I believe my infraction was a stronger curse word than nincompoop though. What a strange thing to do, when you think about it. Did it really get the dirty language out of our mouths? And what got that practice started?
Well, if you can say peacock over and over I don't see how you can be prejudiced against a poor parrot :)
No favorite words come to mind. Probably because they come and go. These days I'm more aware of words becoming unfavorites, like when a regular word gets hijacked and adopted as a default. At times I think if I hear, "absolutely," or "Perfect," once more in a conversation I'll have a conniption fit, a term my mother often used that I later learned meant stroke.
Lee, I'm so glad to have made the UNM connection with you! Thanks for signing up for my substack. As you can see, I've neglected it. Maybe you will inspire me to post more often.
My mother washed my mouth with soap once, or tried to. I believe my infraction was a stronger curse word than nincompoop though. What a strange thing to do, when you think about it. Did it really get the dirty language out of our mouths? And what got that practice started?
Well, if you can say peacock over and over I don't see how you can be prejudiced against a poor parrot :)
No favorite words come to mind. Probably because they come and go. These days I'm more aware of words becoming unfavorites, like when a regular word gets hijacked and adopted as a default. At times I think if I hear, "absolutely," or "Perfect," once more in a conversation I'll have a conniption fit, a term my mother often used that I later learned meant stroke.