{"id":88968,"date":"2022-03-02T08:25:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=88968"},"modified":"2022-03-02T08:25:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:25:40","slug":"the-old-coot-nominates-his-own-word-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2022\/03\/02\/the-old-coot-nominates-his-own-word-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Coot nominates his own \u2018Word of the Year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cWord of the Year\u201d for 2021 was \u201cVaccine.\u201d In 2020, it was \u201cPandemic.\u201d In 2013 it was \u201cSelfie.\u201d Merrian-Webster, Oxford Dictionary and other Lexicographers select the word. Sometimes they agree; sometimes they don\u2019t.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what criteria they use to pick it, even after going to their websites to get an explanation. The Oxford Dictionary explanation claimed their \u201c&#8230; lexicographers dug into their English language corpus data, blah, blah, blah.\u201d It stopped me right there; I was over my head. I had no idea what they were talking about.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most of us think the word of the year is a word spoken more than any other, often a new one. <i>Vaccine, Pandemic<\/i>, and <i>Selfie<\/i> all fit that criterion, and you don\u2019t need a team of lexicographers and corpus data to make the selection.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those may be words spoken the most by the general population, but they aren\u2019t the words used by the people I hang out with. The word of the year for my old coot species is \u201cRemember.\u201d We don\u2019t have a conversation without it popping up every few minutes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to that new restaurant the other day; I can\u2019t remember the name but \u2026.\u201d \u2013 or \u2013 \u201cI saw that guy who used to have coffee with us a few years ago, \u201cI can\u2019t remember his name, \u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Can\u2019t <i>remember <\/i>\u2013 Can\u2019t <i>remember<\/i> \u2013 Can\u2019t <i>remember.<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The second most used word among old coots is \u201cMemory.\u201d It usually follows one of those, \u201cI can\u2019t remember,\u201d sentences. \u2013 My <i>memory <\/i>is shot. \u2013 I have no <i>memory <\/i>anymore. \u2013 I lost my <i>memory<\/i> years ago.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The trouble is, the use of these words is filtering down to younger and younger groups of people. The memory starts going bad as you get into your 50\u2019s. A little scary at first, but then you get used to it; by the time you get to old coot age, you take it for granted that you won\u2019t remember just about anything with a name &#8211; a person, a place or a thing. Your vocabulary is speckled with \u2013 What\u2019s-his-name \u2013 Thing-a-ma-jig \u2013 Watch-ya-call-it, and the like.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some old guys get so frustrated when their memory cells won\u2019t provide a lost name that they stop dead in their tracks. Us well-seasoned old coots get around that problem by faking it, inserting any name, knowing the rest of the group won\u2019t know the difference; their memories are shot.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re in your 40\u2019s, 50\u2019s or 60\u2019s and are worried about your memory, don\u2019t worry; eventually you won\u2019t remember that you can\u2019t remember!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cWord of the Year\u201d for 2021 was \u201cVaccine.\u201d In 2020, it was \u201cPandemic.\u201d In 2013 it was \u201cSelfie.\u201d Merrian-Webster, Oxford Dictionary and other Lexicographers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":82349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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