There are words that fit their meaning perfectly. Slob, for one. And lozenge. But then there are words that are entirely unsuited to their designated semantics. It's as if they've slipped through the cracks of a dictionary and landed on the wrong page. They are chained to the mundane, the drab even, when really they should set eyes aglow just by bouncing off the tip of someone's tongue.
Like fiduciary. It means, among other equally boring stuff, 'a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary'. But just swirl it around in you mouth for a bit! Fiduciary, fiduciary, fiduciary. See what I mean? Couldn't it, shouldn't it rather be the word for a technomagical contraption that you strap onto your back so you can jump up on rooftops with a mere flex of your bottom?
As in 'Albert! Put on your fiduciary and get up here! You have to see this!'
If I were a masked dictionary vigilante, you could consider yourself rescued, fiduciary. Ah well. Maybe if I change careers again.
But what was there to see on the rooftop, you may wonder? Sadly, I don't yet own a fiduciary, so I'm not sure.
(Barcelona rooftops by Toni Camara, fox by markkilner, rabbit by Mecaniques, fussball gnome by gnomebomb.)
2 comments:
I never knew rooftops could have foxes on them!
Must be because I don't own a fiduciary yet either.
Speaking of words, the word verification to post this comment is 'sjerbabl'.
I do not mind verifying one bit, sjerbabl very much.
dude, you are both awesome.
this could be one of my favourite posts ever.
thank you <3
btw, my verification word is "ingspe". norse origin, f. noun, meaning "young virgin engaged to be married to the king's county deputy".
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