I wouldn’t be surprised if I lost all of my followers (or with such a limited number should I say “each” or “both” or worst of all “the”) but have we really come to a point in this blog where it’s nothing better than a “Word a Day Calendar?”
Yes.
But, we can insulate the poster from the blame. Instead we should blame the new VP of Finance at my company. The other day he was talking about how he and his wife were watching television and had a hard time choosing between the shows Bridezillas and Say Yes to the Dress. “So we did what we had to do and we bifurcated between the two of them.”
I would not hesitate to say that at no time in human history has the word “bifurcate” (to divide into two branches or parts) been used in the same sentence with either Bridezillas or Say Yes to the Dress. In homage to this daring usage, I felt compelled to turn make this blog a vocabulary lesson for the day.
I also just ran across “neologism”( a new word, usage, or expression or a meaningless word coined by a psychotic) in an article I was reading. I plan to drop that sucker on our VP at the next meeting and see what the reaction is. It, as much as bifurcate is a perfectly cromulent word and would only serve to embiggen even the smallest man.
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