Clingy Words

[iluvsheep]

I've known for a while about the word "trove", which seems inextricably tied to treasure. I mean, what other type of trove is there? Recently, I was reminded of the word "knell", who turns out to be a might bit moribund, itself (I think that's funny, perhaps people with sharper vocabularies can confirm). Anyway, this all got me thinking about what

Comments

[istar]

I love this post! Thank you for alerting me to the existence of One-Trick Words.

[istar]

Maybe this is just a US thing, but there are things other than interests that can be "vested". Like stock options.

[ywalme]

There are a number of words in that list of whose one-trick-ness I am doubtful, but the list as a whole is pretty good.

[dclayh]

Stormy petrels is the older and less boring term, I believe.

[iluvsheep]

That is another good list of these, and perhaps a little more complete.

[derakon]

Linked from there is the Untruisms, of which my favorite is this: "The sentence "I am armed to the teeth" is an untruism whenever it is pronounced correctly. If it were true, it would be pronounced "Eye ar arrr kaar keef"."

[partly_cloudy]

~sputter~