In continuing celebration of my favourite words, today’s is
peculiar. I use this word fairly often in daily life (mainly in celebrating the
strange and wonderful people I have the fortune to encounter living in the
city).
When I started writing this blog, I typed the word peculiar
and then had a mini-crisis about how to spell it. Doesn’t it look peculiar! I thought. That spelling can’t be right: it
looks peculiar. The dictionary (today’s
choice the Cambridge Dictionaries Online) states the meaning as “unusual and
strange, sometimes in an unpleasant way”. How wonderful for a word to look as
odd as the meaning it portrays.
Indeed I do employ it mostly in an unpleasant way, usually
to describe sinister characters or unusual flavours of sandwich perhaps. And
when I say unusual, the most recent encountered was a golden syrup sandwich –
too sweet for my taste I’m afraid. Definitely peculiar!
So for the day I am enjoying the wonderful weirdness of the
word peculiar. Join me and share an unusual and strange sentence using this
word.
Elloise Hopkins.
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