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Your vocabulary origins

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by novelist_wannabe, Mar 6, 2012.

  1. albert77

    albert77 Well-Known Member

    I learned the word assassination the day JFK was shot when I was in third grade. No matter what the circumstances, when I hear that word it takes me back to that day.
     
  2. wedgewood

    wedgewood Member

    When I was a kid, I remember a dorky soccer referee would often use the word dissent to describe us whiny little brats.

    I bombed on the word bombardment in a spelling bee in the sixth grade. Visiting this site over the years, I've often seen the words provably and demonstrably ... and cockdian, which I love, but don't know the origins.
     
  3. azom

    azom Member

    I use that Carlin shell-shock to PTSD bit in my (college) classroom.
     
  4. Ookpik

    Ookpik Member

     
  5. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    I first heard and learned the word prostitute in the fifth grade on the bus to school. Some older kids threw it out there and I asked what it was. It was explained to me that a prostitute was a woman who sold her body for money. Since there was laughter involved in the explanation, I refrained from asking which part.
     
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