The other day we were tormenting a poor teenager with the expressions ‘As happy as Larry’ and ‘As happy as a pig in muck.’ I think he was wondering if the pig’s name was ‘Larry’, or if all the old people had just lost it. (On a digression, there is a man in Mount Gambier …
If you love words, (which most readers here do), you might find it fun to take a few minutes and go to the Test Your Vocabulary website and do just that. The result reckons I know 32,500 words. I reckon some of my more literate friends and readers can do a lot better than that.
Here’s a post that gathers up fifteen words from non-English languages that have no direct single-word English equivalent. Examples: Iktsuarpok (Inuit) You know that feeling of anticipation when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they’re there yet? This is the word for it. …
“I just wanna [invest this season of my life and] love on these precious kids and come alongside them as we do life together and then go home to my smokin’ hot bride.” via
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