Recently I was talking to a woman at work who is about 10 years younger than me. I noted that something we were reviewing was "bizarre". She looked at me like I had two heads. "Bizarre? No one says 'bizarre'," she said.
This was bizarre to me. I realized that I use bizarre all the time. I like it because the word itself is weird. You got the z in there. I mean, how many words have a z in them? Not many. Plus those two rs. Pretty cool.
Apparently, the younger set has new word for weird that is less bizarre.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Bizarre
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
i say bizarre! she is just a linguistically uninteresting member of my generation, perhaps. ;)
also, i say perhaps.
Of course you have to use a Basque loanword when you can! Are there any others, BTW?
I checked my Pyles & Algeo and not a mention of Basque loanwords. Hmm.
Post a Comment