B-log

I really like the word surreptitious, despite its negative meaning. It’s one of those neat words that just rolls off the tongue, and it sounds exactly like what it means. You’re almost compelled to say it in a whisper. On the linguistic fast-food menu, the word is a veritable Big Mac, with two all-beef plosive patties amidst the soft whole grain sesame-seed triple fricative buns, not to mention the lettuce, tomato, pickles & cheese of the vowels, which takes a speaker from close-back to close-mid-front to close-front to open-mid front all in one word. And then there’s the special sauce variable triphthong, if your dialect so inflects.

Clearly, this post was just for me. Thanks for bearing with me as I plumb the depths of my dorkitude.