Grog (as in a pirate’s beverage). When you say it, your throat catches at the end and you feel like a grunting pirate whose throat is sore from swallowing too much salt water and is about to chug a large tankard of ginger beer and rum (what I imagine true grog to be). It [...]
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I love the word curmudgeon because i love how it sounds when you pronounce it and because I know, for sure, that when i get old, I’ll be a curmudgeonly lady. In fact, I’m a curmudgeonly twenty-something girl right now. i think it describes me very accurately. I love it. Carmen Duarte Chile Tweet Pin It Compound of 2 Old English words: tungol (star) and wittigan (priests). I think it’s much more “romantic” sounding than the Latinate astronomer. Anne Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom Tweet Pin It |
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