Words

"We search for words because sometimes that is all we can do."
-- Josh Carter

I like words. I particularly like the word "nociception." It's basically a fancy word for pain. Stemming from the Latin root "noceo," it literally translates as the "perception of harm."

Bam. Etymology like that blows my mind.

Another example: disease. Literally the state of being not at ease.

I also like how words feel in my mouth. A favorite of mine is "intrigue." A friend once told me that he likes how the word "thimble" sounds. I spent the next minute or two playing with the word, saying it slowly, drawing out the sounds. After a while, I was mildly addicted to saying it.

Just as sometimes songs get annoyingly stuck in my head, I also get words stuck in my head. For example, just a few nights ago my brain kept repeating the word "apocrine" over and over again while I was at tennis practice.


Apocrine. Apocrine. Apocrine. Thimble.