Embiggen Your Vocabulary



There I was minding my own business, searching for decorating tips on the internet, when I came across these words:

24 EXTREMELY CREATIVE AND CLEVER SPACE SAVING
IDEAS THAT WILL ENLARGEN YOUR SPACE

I had a laugh to myself. After all, who wouldn't want their space "enlargened"? I think the writer has been watching too many episodes of The Simpsons. Written on the statue of Jebediah Springfield are the words: "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." 

When teacher Edna Krabappel questioned the word embiggen, fellow teacher Miss Hoover replied: "I don't know why; it's a perfectly cromulent word." Made me laugh - and as Ralph Wiggum said: "Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

Then I remembered William Shakespeare invented hundreds of words that have passed into common usage, so why shouldn't some wet-behind-the-ears copywriter? 

Maybe we all need to embiggen our vocabulary, just like Shakespeare did.






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8 comments:

  1. Misadventures of Widowhood6 December 2021 at 14:08

    Thanks for the laugh. We should all come into this word with the right to invent one new word. I'm just sad that 'embiggens' is taken.

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    1. Around My Kitchen Table6 December 2021 at 16:42

      It's never too late to enlargen your vocabulary!

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  2. Arkansas Patti6 December 2021 at 17:31

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  3. Arkansas Patti6 December 2021 at 17:38

    Once I hear a new word or see it in a sentence, I usually adopt it without question. Yep, I'm easy:)
    You made me look up cromulent. It is new enough that I had to add it to my spellcheck.

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  4. Nance6 December 2021 at 18:58

    Reminds me of grading student essay questions whilst teaching Arthur Miller's "The Crucible." One bright mind opened with this sentence: "John Proctor's character has changed dramastically from Act I."

    How can I argue with that?

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  5. Liz A.7 December 2021 at 02:34

    I see embiggen around the interwebs quite a bit. I think at this point it has become actual English just from the use. As has cromulent. I say we make up a word and see if we can get it to stick ;)

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  6. River7 December 2021 at 03:04

    As long as I can say Yes Please, No thank you and Which way are the toilets, I think I've got enough words.

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  7. Darla M Sands7 December 2021 at 16:36

    I forgot the fact Shakespeare made up words. :)

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