What is a word you feel that too many people use?

Oxford English Dictionary estimates that there are around 170,000 words in current use, with an additional 47,000 obsolete words. Compared to other languages, English hosts a pretty vast vocabulary, with Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis as its longest word hosting 45 consecutive letters.

The Korean dictionary is thought to be the largest at 1,100,373 words. This is the single-largest number of words in any government approved source. I guess that is what happens when you combine all of the words in both South and North Korean in one place.

Then there is Egyptian/Arabic/Hebrew. The current forms of Canaanite-Phoenician, Edomite Egyptian, and Midianite — More commonly generalized as ‘Aramaic’ or ‘Ancient Hebrew’ for compartmentalization purposes.

I would have been shocked if Jesus, Ishmael and the Grand Rabbi stepped into a horse stall and started cracking prophecy in dope rhymes, while Pharisees jotted it all down joyfully.

Words are nothing more than the spoken representation of our minds ideas. Words are an attempt to calm, entice, excite or even sound fears. Words can take us to different worlds where the trees gleam with the purple haze of a muggy summer evenings sunset in the desert… if we want them to. Then there are the words that wound us. Cut us in the absolute deepest place, and they cause us the pain of a thousand rivers weeping. It does not matter the language spoken, they are equally as devastating. These are the words we choose to neglect, hide or shame.

Then there are the words that bring us joy. Happiness, elation and hope. The words that paint the pictures of our minds eye. The manifestation of our comforts and pleasures. Our personal paradise, the one-day… the end goal. It is the last picture on your vision board. The reason for it all.

To be completely honest, I have never found the value in the words of another. Throughout my personal journey, words have been nothing but a complication to an already confused little girl trying to fit into unknown expectations. Especially when you are too innocent to understand the value or their words.

So, to select a single word is difficult. I could go with the commands, like ‘respect’, ‘cherish’, ‘love’, ‘peace’ ect… but I just don’t feel a viable connection. I can completely see the value in why that those are the top answers from the 948 other blogs I visited this morning.

(Great Job by the way! There are some really amazing writers out there!)

I don’t feel like I really have a single word that I find to be over used. I really feel like, as obsure as it is, all words are of equal value. It tends to be the dumb catchphrases and acryonyms that are overused.

I’d love to engage with you in the comments. It gets pretty lonely when all I do is talk to myself.