Courtesy of http://www.nerdtoenglish.com
I could never use those words
They seem so big
And out of reach
For a lowly girl like me
What do I know of words like?
Gregarious
Eponymous
And other highfalutin
And lah-de-dah words
What do I know of big words?
What do I know of any words?
I am just a plain-vanilla
A product of British colonization
And a very Anglophone father
Who never said lazy but rather sloth
And every time he said that
I thought he meant slut…
What then do I know of big words?
When I could never tell when it’s
Sloth or slut
Boomie Bol 
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what a great comic poem! 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Slut all the way 🙂
ha ha, ofcourse 🙂
haha, due to my work I know 5 of those! lol
Generally I’m not a big word person though as I like the practice of speaking to/with a broad audience and I never want people to feel they need a dictionary to understand what I’m saying.
Lol… You must be really smart for a job like that 🙂
nah, I just got lucky here 🙂
Plain vanilla is not so plain, nicely communicated.
David. L
:), thank you!
You’re in good company. Ernest Hemingway would agree with you…
Glad :), those words make me feel completely out of place
LOL!!!I know our Dad’s saying that I just recently deciphered was “I don’t give a dime”( in my teenage mind I just thought we couldn’t be that hard up!!!)when what he really meant was damn!!!…the fog around this issue just recently cleared in my adult mind!!!it’s gottaq be the Naija accent…….LOOL!!!…..xx
Lol…the first time he said it, i thought “just cos i didnt clean my room…glad i figured it out eventually. My dad was too prim and proper…i didnt know poop as that as a child rather dad always said defecate, and thats what we all said. can u imagine at 3 telling my teacher, i would like to defecate please LOL!
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