I heard that Americans have a functional vocabulary of 20,000 words. I've heard other figures, but let's go with this one. Moreover, we only use a few thousand of those per day. That leaves 17,000 or so floating in the head, but rarely used, except on special occasions.
Here are the floaters I used today:
Languish--What a funky word.
Gyrate--Another word far underused.
Woodpecker--Now, this actually cracks my top 3,000. Not only because they surround our home, but also because the phrase, "hotter than a woodpecker," which means absolutely nothing, somehow snuck into my lexicon.
Oops, this post had purpose. Honest. But the lovely lying behind me wants me to turn out the light, so you'll have to settle for this fraction (I'd say 2/5) of a blog post. Sorry, but she's worth it.
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