Thursday, June 26, 2003
Nally-nally gazump-gazunder.
I have this esteemed colleague see. He’s pretty smart, even just maybe smarter than me. Maybe, and only just. One thing he has is an astronomically huge vocabulary. This guy can spew out 10 or 15 words in the coarse of a conversation you’d swear you’d never heard before, and they’d all be English words!
I love words and my colleague’s very good about telling me what these mystery words mean and correcting me when I use the wrong word or pronunciation.
I don’t like to gloat. I’d rather sit quietly at home knowing I’m correct about something or jealously holding onto information. That’s not true either, I love to share but this is different. This time I believe I may have a word my esteemed colleague doesn’t know! If he (or any other friend who knows my e-mail) can give me a good approximate meaning of the following word without googling or dictionarying I will remove my shirt at the Gay Pride Parade this weekend .(Trying to watch my calories so I wont be eating that shirt) .
I know my colleague will not deceive me and run to his reference books. He is not a lair. None of my friends are. So I’m lucky in a couple ways today. I know two new words and I know my friends don’t lie.
The words:
GAZUMP past tense GAZUMPED also as a verb GAZUMPING.
Think you know that word? Try GAZUNDER.
I have this esteemed colleague see. He’s pretty smart, even just maybe smarter than me. Maybe, and only just. One thing he has is an astronomically huge vocabulary. This guy can spew out 10 or 15 words in the coarse of a conversation you’d swear you’d never heard before, and they’d all be English words!
I love words and my colleague’s very good about telling me what these mystery words mean and correcting me when I use the wrong word or pronunciation.
I don’t like to gloat. I’d rather sit quietly at home knowing I’m correct about something or jealously holding onto information. That’s not true either, I love to share but this is different. This time I believe I may have a word my esteemed colleague doesn’t know! If he (or any other friend who knows my e-mail) can give me a good approximate meaning of the following word without googling or dictionarying I will remove my shirt at the Gay Pride Parade this weekend .(Trying to watch my calories so I wont be eating that shirt) .
I know my colleague will not deceive me and run to his reference books. He is not a lair. None of my friends are. So I’m lucky in a couple ways today. I know two new words and I know my friends don’t lie.
The words:
GAZUMP past tense GAZUMPED also as a verb GAZUMPING.
Think you know that word? Try GAZUNDER.
