Friday, January 3, 2014

Instructions for My Husband: A Word Can Still Exist Even if You Have Never Heard It.


This post is sponsored by Grammarly. I use Grammarly's English grammar correction feature because I don't want my husband to be able to say to me "actually, you used an 'is' where you should have used an 'are'" or something else equally annoying.

While I know you are a stanch logophile, still, there are a few - possibly even more than a few - words you don't know. I am aware that you want to think you know every single word in the English language. We all do. It would be awesome.

But you don't know all of the words.

When I use in conversation one of the clearly very, very few words that you don't already know the incorrect response is, "Never heard of it. You must have that wrong."

The correct response is, " Oh cool, I learned a new word! I can't wait to use it at the office on Monday! What a lucky break for a logophile like me to learn a new word!"

The even more correct response is, "My wife has the most amazing vocabulary. I'm so lucky to be married to someone I can learn new words from all the time!"

And last, just for the record, lonsman really is another word for Jew, and a gondola doesn't only refer to a boat in Venice.

This is my thirty-sixth instruction in my ongoing series Instructions for my Husband.

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3 comments:

l.e.s.ter said...

Hmm...not sure I would rely on "Urban Dictionary" for settling arguments with my husband. That site is supported by "I pooped today" t-shirt sales.

landsman [lahnts-muhn] Yiddish.
a person from the same town, geographical area, region, etc., as another; compatriot.

Anna ~ Random Handprints said...

Well, uh, your Urban Dictionary might be supported by "I pooped today" shirts, but my Urban Dictionary is filled with ads for Lincoln Center and PBS.

Meredith said...

Anna, you are amazing. Now please come over here and help me instruct my husband on proper responses to my brilliance.

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