Monday, March 28

"Bajillion" is (now) a real word

Really-- according to this online dictionary.  How do I react to this news?
A) Denial
B) Anger
C) Bargaining
D) Reluctant acceptance
E) Detached amusement

Answer:

Cameron Frye


I kid.  A little.  I've already gone those reactions listed above.  I love arcane, esoteric, multisyllabic words and collect them like an orthographic magpie.  It pains me slightly that a four-year-old's term for an unimaginable sum exaggerated amount is now recognized by a dictionary as A Real Word.  But such is language: it changes, with old words fading with disuse and new ones forever cropping up to  identify things that haven't ever existed before and more succinctly describe the zeitgeist of today.

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