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Recently, Facebook was praised for the inspiration of a new word: “defriend” or “unfriend”.
Please.
If Webster is desperate for new words, he is welcome around my dinner table anytime.
For example:
When we went night sledding, after our big once a year Virginia snow, my 8 year old put ‘Awesome’ and ‘Wicked’ together to express his rush at the bottom of a fast hill.
“That was SWICKED!”
My 6 year old is constantly making up words. I don’t even think he’s from this planet. He’s like my alien baby from the future.
“Mommy”, after deep thought, “you know the part at the top of the Christmas tree that has no hooks?”
“Yeah”
“That’s called a ’swerble’.”
“Oh, really?”
“Yeah, and do you know what a ‘clarkma’ is?”
“No, what?”
“That’s an unbreakable glass. You can make ornaments out of it and they won’t break if they fall off the ’swerble’.”
“Oh, got it!”
Even as a baby, his bottle was a ‘Hoo Hoo’. (We are in Cavalier country!) Airplanes were ‘Va Vuffs’ and cucumbers were ‘Wo Wos’.
This was a child, whose preschool teacher had no idea, on any given day, what he was saying during circle time show and tell. She just nodded her head and smiled at him.
Last year, he was referred for speech therapy. After 2 evaluations, they didn’t see anything wrong.
That’s because, he’s my brilliant son, who invents better words than Facebook.
Just keep your eyes out for a new dictionary. A step above Webster. A dictionary, written by my little word genius. One that will stand the test of time as it is made of clarkma.