Word of the Day

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Ever have a random word pop into your head and then decide to take up residence for awhile?

Every so often, I’ll get words that do just that. Pop. Into my head, that is. They don’t even have to be words I know. They’ll just bubble up from my subconscious and float to the surface of my conscious mind. They’ll just come out of no where. I’ll end up just repeating the word over and over again in my head for at least a day. Sometime they last longer.

One time it was a phrase in Cantonese. I had no idea what I was saying, but it kept going round and round. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any Cantonese speakers that day, and by the next day, I could barely remember the phrase. Honestly I don’t think I could have pronounced it correctly anyway. I definitely tried, and boy did I get some crazy looks!

Today’s word (well, actually the word for the past three days) is Weimaraner. I couldn’t even spell it. I thought it was wiemereiner. Guess I was wrong. It turns out to be this silver-gray hunting dog that I’ve seen in this one photographer’s work. That took me on a search through all kinds of random stuff, but ended in finding that photographer’s website. His name is William Wegman.

There I found the cutest picture of a weimaraner puppy EVER!

Take those flights of fancy and follow up on things that pop into your head. You never know what you’ll find or never realize how much you already know. Oooh the depths of our cognition! (Doesn’t that send chills up your spine?)