Yesterday, I memed a letter to the editor at the Washington Post in which the author complained about nonsense words and phrases like "going forward" that seem to plague the world today. Well, as annoying as such phrases may be at times, they can also be fun! Or so says Mark Dunn, who's written an entire book about interjections. Zounds!: A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections explains where a few of our favorite filler words come from. English, having the most words, has the most interjections, and the lexicon is growing daily. Gadzooks and Yadda Yadda |