Thanks, universe.
Once in a while you send big blinking signs that everything’s unfolding according to plan. Yes, whether it’s a supersmooth drive home, some eerie deja vu, or a perfect time showing up on the clock, you drop buzzy little braintwists that always keep us guessing.
Yes, it’s great when you learn a new word and then suddenly start seeing it everywhere. You know how it goes: something weird like coagulate, vexed, or perforated leaps into your temporal lobe and wedges itself there tightly, grabbing a beer, putting its feet up, making itself at home.
But then soon magazine articles are zooming the word up to your eyeballs, your college professor is dropping it in lectures, and you see it hanging strangely coagulate in the middle of a random blog.
“I never knew that word before,” you think. “but now it’s following me around.”
See, the Lords of Language know you well. They gotta repeat things to seal in the learning. So when it happens just enjoy that personal thrill, feel that connection crackle, and smile and nod because you just got a little bit smarter and a lot more
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This happens to me ALL the time!
Great article!! For me it was CRUDITE (cut up raw vegetables). Years ago it was PAISLEY. Hear it once and suddenly it’s everywhere.
What about “Ozay”? I haven’t seen anyone mention “ozay” yet.
You mean … like the word is … like … ubiquitous?
Cool, Peggy, cool
Hah! It seems to be EVERYWHERE!
“…and you see it hanging strangely coagulate in the middle of a random blog”- LOL.
I LOVE when this happens, you feel very connected to everything, what a great awesome thing today! My word was smite and smote. Saw it, learned it, then it was EVERYWHERE. Thankfully, not directed at me!
“I never knew that word before,” you think. “but now it’s following me around.”
That made me actually laugh, ya know, out loud. :)
This happened to me with the word “Caveat”.
suzerainty
i’m in my third year of international poli sci and i only just discovered it, and then it came up in three different classes in the one day… and two of the profs didn’t know what it was
This is always fun and comes in handy in life.
The other day I heard and actually read the word ‘gobsmacked’ five whole times!!! It might have been more but when I noticed and started counting it came to five.
I was gobsmacked!
I love this one and how true is that!
ZOMG! That flippin happens to me all the time! XD I thought I was crazy. This makes me feel better though, ;D
I know it’s been said before, but this is so very, very true! Love it!
Wotcher!
That’s the word. It means “hi there!”. I’m trying to start a revolution and put it in the American dictionary.
Brill blog (except whats up with calling Ron Weasley ugly?!). Joking. ;)
Cheers,
Sarah
How very true! As I’ve started reading these vocabulary books I see the words I’ve read everywhere.. It looks as though people put these words on purpose… lol..
I once read ketchup spelled “catsup” in a book and for weeks after it was the only way ANYTHING seemed to spell it.
Great post ! Thanks I really Appreciate It
I somehow came across the idiom, “the emperor’s new clothes” then that same day I read that phrase in a magazine and heard it in a song on the radio!!!!!
BadWolf.
Once I read an awesome book; I was spreading the word like wild-fire and receiving the most peculair looks, until a sister finally questioned the title… I told, “Erroneous Zones!”
When she told me what she thought I’d said, we laughed…this explained everything!
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It all essentially answered my problem, thanks!
Yeah weird I keep seeing the word ACE everywhere. Literally in the game draw something, in brand names, on car stickers and at church
Ive been reading the bible for the first time ever since the beginning of January and just yesterday,ive heard the word Hallowed Ground on the news,in a Michael Jackson song “speechless”,in books and ive not even been looking for this word.Amazing…I think its because im enjoying the Bible so much that this is happening to me…But Hallowed Ground..Its not a regular word is it thats used everyday.
Thanks for sharing this, Grace! When I was a child, the Lord’s prayer was recited every morning before class started and this was regular school, not religious or private school, so it was heard a lot! Just last week I used it in a sentence, either here or on Awesome Friends.org and I thought to myself, this word is not used very often anymore; people are probably going to think it’s not a word or I’ve confused it somehow with Hallowe’en.
People, that is what you call, AWKWARD LANGUAGE MOMENT :) you actually heard those words before several times but you just don’t understand them yet or you don’t know their meaning yet and after you knew them, you start to recognize them :)
oh, I hope that helps. :D
For me it was Penultimate – never heard of it and then it was everywhere. A great word and I love the way it rolls off the tongue.
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This literally happens to me all the time! Like today i just learned what the fourth wall is when someone pointed out that ohshc occasionally breaks that wall and later i watched a video where kickthepj broke it and some other guy today brought it up, like what the hell!? Whats the universe trying to tell me!???