Seven Funky Words That Aren't

Brainstormed with the help of my other best friend (not the previously mentioned Vortexavian) and her little sister on the car ride to pizza. We really do catch ourselves using these words a lot. I'm personally a big fan of gonna/gotta/wanna, y'all, ginormous, and confuzzled.

8. Y'all: It's technically a contraction for you all, but it by itself is not a word. I lived in Georgia for 10 years and am now in North Carolina; southern life has led me to say y'all religiously. Despite the amount of maroon on the map to your right, it still draws scorn from the rest of the world.

7. Childs, deers, fishes:

childs = children,

deers = deer,

fishes = fish. 'Nuff said.

6. Gonna/gotta/wanna: Humans, we're lazy. We don't want to contort our tongue the extra quarter millimeter to sound out "going to," "got to," "want to," so we let the words bleed together. Sure, it's acceptable in speech on occasion, especially if you're speaking quickly, but the day it became written language, that day was the start of the end of the world.

5. Chillax: Chillax, man, it's just slang.

4. Funner: Tougher, taller, better, they're all -er words. So why is the word that means "more fun" not funner? Why is it just plain old "more fun"?

3. Redonkulous: Popularized by television and movies. I remember hearing it from that pigeon in the Disney movie Bolt. It's so fun to say. For the slang-challenged, it simply means ridiculous.

2. Confuzzled: Confuzzled at why they need another word for confusion? Me too. But it's kind of like flummoxed (also means confused, but is actually a read word), it's more fun to say than confused or puzzled.

1. Ginormous: When it's cooler than gigantic and bigger than enormous. Mmm, lunch time. That is a ginormous piece of pizza!!