Words I absolutely do NOT enjoy:
Depot - Because it should be De. Pot. Or Depo.
No silent T. The silent T is
just sneaky. I’m not fond of sneaky
consonants.
Island – Same issue
as Depot. It isn’t EYE-land or I-land…..but
somehow it’s spelled “IS-Land” A silent,
sneaky S. Why do we need a silent
S? Nope.
We actually DON’T need it.
Omelet – a wad of
congealed scrambled eggs, limply lying on a plate. As in…Omelet these eggs sit here in the pan
and solidify because I’m too lazy to scramble them. Omelet is just nasty.
Cinch – whether it’s about the Cinch Bug
or you want to say something is easy “as in, “It’s a cinch!” It just sounds icky. Cinch. Cinch. Cinch. Ewwwwh.
Pianist – It’s an
simply an awkward word. PEE-an-Ist? Pee-AN-ist? I tend to just avoid the awkwardness all together
and say, “That person who plays piano.”
Caucus – It sounds
like a dead body, not a quorum for voting. Caucus. Yuck.
Gulch – it makes
you swallow hard to even say it. Like
when you gag…. just before you throw-up.
Flesh – There is
just something almost sickening about the sound of this word: Flesh.
Just don’t.
Slaw – As in,
Cole Slaw. Although I do enjoy eating a
good coleslaw, it sounds like something you should throw to the pigs. Sloppy Slaw.
Slaw. Rubbish. Garbage. Slaw.
Puce- as ugly
sounding as the color looks. Puce is the
color of a healing bruise black-eye – still bruised and bluish, but also
pinkish with tinges of nasty pea-green.
Puce. Who thinks….I really,
REALLY love the color PUCE? Nobody.
Ever.
Bangs – as in,
what you call the fringe of hair on your forehead. Bangs?
WHY?????? A gunshot? Bangs,
yes. A door? Slam it and it bangs, yes. Hair on your forehead? NO. It
doesn’t. Stop it.
Schmear – like,
what you order on your bagel. It sounds like
an accident, not something you’d actually WANT on your bagel.
Wipe – because. Ewwwwh.
Menstruation – It
has nothing to do with MEN. The “Struation”
makes it sound like a business transaction – which is obviously isn’t. It’s just a gross word. Period.
(Pun not intended – but happy accident!!) J
Colonel – because
it’s just STUPID. It’s not pronounced “Co-lon-el”
like it should be. It’s pronounced
Kernel. Like it shouldn’t be. There is no R in this word!!! WHY on EARTH do we pronounce it like there’s
an R in this word???
Bologna – along the
same lines as Colonel. Because in what
Universe does bologna sound like “Ball-on-ee?”
Ours. Only ours. Because. Bologna.
Phlegm – it’s
onamatapia (however you spell it!!). It sounds like the disgusting, snotty, slimy thing that it is.
Smegma - Also as gross as it sounds.
Soggy – it conjures
up visions of mildew, mold, soppy wet and muddy messes. Soggy bread.
Ewwwh. Soggy ground. Soggy anything is just nasty.
Sherbet/Sorbet – Sherbet
is just sham ice cream. An imposter ice cream. A less creamy, less delicious stand-in for
delicious, creamy ice cream. And it
should have an R in the end of the word:
Sher-BERT. Because that’s how we
say it. And Sorbet is nothing but
uppity sherbet. So snobbish.
Masticate – it sounds
dirtier than just chewing. It sounds
shameful. But we should all masticate
our food properly. Nope. Still sounds dirty.
Upholstery – The word makes no sense. Downholstry?
Sideholestry? NO? Well, then why UPholstery? Dumb word.
