Wordage

Playing with language is fun and often funny. Word origins and meanings are fascinating. I love the sounds of words, creating words, creating with words, and messing with words. Bring on the puns, the double entendres, Malapropisms, the fractured meanings, the multiple meanings, the change-one-letter/change-the-meaning games, charades, the crossword puzzles, and all the manufactured word games like Scrabble and Boggle, and ...well...you get the idea.

The original predilection was passed on from several family members of my grandparents and parents generation who loved all those pastimes and were word manglers par excellence. I learned their secret "Pig Latin" and "Alphalpha" languages in order to intercept all the secrets they transmitted in that encoded English.  After studying eighth grade Latin, and high school French, I majored in Ancient Greek in college because I loved everything about that civilization and enjoyed the challenge of learning to use the venerable Greek Alphabet from which most other Indo-European alphabets and many, many words derive (e.g.,"alpha,"and "beta" being the first two letters of its "alphabet"). 

If you are a fellow wordsmith or word mangler, please feel free to contribute in the comments section, especially if I have failed to attribute or wrongly attributed anything in this category. My purpose is to share the fun, not to plagiarize.

  Wordage by Abby Freeborn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Comments may be addressed to randmxcentric@gmail,com