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"Ginourmous"
A lot of people are using that word now-a-days. I've seen it in commercials and on television programs. Even in a few movies. Pretty soon, I guess, it will get put into the dictionary. I wonder how it got out.
For a while, when I heard this word in the past year or two, I remembered being the first person I know to coin that word. But I was mistaken. As I thought harder on it, I realized I snagged that word from someone else. I first heard this word about 10-12 years ago. I was married at the time, and my then-wife, Laura, said it.
She would perinnially make up new words by accident. I think maybe her brain moved faster than her mouth. But she often made up these new words by slamming two others together. This one, I stole. I do wonder how it got out into the public at large. Maybe, over the past 10 years, she has said it to someone who wrote it down. Maybe I have repeated it often enough to someone who is listened to. I dunno.
But I do find it amusing.
A lot of people are using that word now-a-days. I've seen it in commercials and on television programs. Even in a few movies. Pretty soon, I guess, it will get put into the dictionary. I wonder how it got out.
For a while, when I heard this word in the past year or two, I remembered being the first person I know to coin that word. But I was mistaken. As I thought harder on it, I realized I snagged that word from someone else. I first heard this word about 10-12 years ago. I was married at the time, and my then-wife, Laura, said it.
She would perinnially make up new words by accident. I think maybe her brain moved faster than her mouth. But she often made up these new words by slamming two others together. This one, I stole. I do wonder how it got out into the public at large. Maybe, over the past 10 years, she has said it to someone who wrote it down. Maybe I have repeated it often enough to someone who is listened to. I dunno.
But I do find it amusing.