The folks at Merriam-Webster decided in their infinite wisdom, to add some interesting words to their lexicon. Some words are understandable, such as 'sudoku' or 'Bollywood', words used often and having real meaning. But idiocy pervades even the brightest minds. The genius wordmiths are also adding such beautiful words like 'ginormous', which is the when something is both enormous and gigantic. Well, naturally. It's not like you could add 'extremely' or 'immensely' infront of the word enormous to convey the massiveness of scale. Apparently, it's also immensely out of fashion to use another word in place of enormous. Something like 'colossal' or 'gargantuan'. As such, the only reasonable solution was to use a bastardized word that is borne out of forced fornication of the 2 words in question. But why stop there? We need consistency. If we're going to erode the stature of the English language into hillbilly rubble, let's do it fully. I hereby submit my choice of the top 5 mashed together words that should follow in the footsteps of Ginormous right into Merriam-Websters' pants.
5. 'Serrought' - Severe Drought
4. 'Crew-Boozing' - Cruising for a bruisin'
3. 'Homo' - Harry Potter motion picture
2. 'Shut-up already' - Global Warming/Climate Change
1. 'Dick van Dyke show' - gay and lesbian marriage
Friday, July 27, 2007
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