Lauren Schellenberg
I was listening to episode 32 of Slate’s Lexicon Valley on which linguist John McWhorter was talking about how much he hated the word veggies. That’s an odd word to hate, I thought. It seems pretty innocuous. So I got to thinking about the words that I hate. There are many of them, but I always have a good reason:
Some for misogyny – hysterical
Some for cacophony – bucolic
Some for imagery – pustule
Some for pedantry – copacetic
And some for solecism – irregardless
As I was congratulating myself on how very logical I was in my loathing of certain words, it struck me that I hate the word Legos.
Legos.
With an s.
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