Thursday Thirteen - Words
I'm feeling the need to do something lighthearted so my Thursday Thirteen is a list of 13 words that because of the way they sound or look just amuse or confound me.
- phenomenon
- asterisk
- refrigerator (who came up with that name anyway)
- Arkansas (when they named this state were they claiming it as their version of Kansas)
- bookkeeper
- onomatopoeia (obviously this word does not fit it's definition)
- echo (echo, echo, echo)
- oxymoron
- meme (the debate on how this is pronounces rages on)
- Ohio ( I always want to write/type this OhiO)
- peppercorn
- syllabus ( why can't they just say course outline instead of silly-bus)
- VACATION ( It's just my favorite word for what it means - not for any of the aforementioned reasons)
1 comment:
I have always wondered why they chose Arkansas as a name. But at least it must have had some real origin, unlike Idaho, which was completely made up by bureaucrats in Washington (true).
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