Say it any way you want

If you can't speak your mind, keep trying.
Silence never moved anyone.

James Kelly

Hey, tonight I used a word that my friends and I have used for years. I used this word forgetting that I was amongst people who were not privy to the inner word group used in my circle of friends. These people assumed I had made a serious faux pas. I, on the other hand, thought my word was descriptive and spoke more to what I was imagining.

Should I apply somewhere to have this word and others that I use to be officially inducted into Websters? I mean, why isn't it as easy as selecting, add word to database. Or why isn't it as easy as having the word accepted for what it is? A bastardized version of the original. Created with a sense of humour, but with a sense of pride as well.

Like the word, sha, an obscure colloquialism confined to mid-Ontario and southern Ontario through the seventies. A slang, meaning, sarcastically yes. Unless you were from that region you would have probably looked sideways at anyone using it. That is, until Mike Myers, a Toronto region boy, brought it to pop culture in the movie Wayne's World.

I guess sometimes you just have to accept that your idea of change, even if it is as simple as scramblizing a well established word or two, will probably ruffle the feathers of those steeped in traditional word, and oh yea, boring.