Words I Hate

Get rid of this word. Just get rid of it. We cannot have a word that ends in “moron” that has nothing to do with morons. Granted the “moron” in “oxymoron” comes from the same place as the “moron” in “moron” (the Greeks, those pedophiles), and I’m sure at some point this word had a more generic meaning since it’s prefix “oxy-” (sharp) and root “moros” (stupid) combine to mean “pointedly foolish”, but now it simply means “contradiction in terms”. The meaning has lost its sense of place.

I realize we need a word for this concept, however. I propose keeping the pronunciation but dramatically altering the spelling. Examples include:

• augsimorin
• owksemaran
• ockseemoren
• ugsimorun
• awxzymooroon

I realize these look much, much worse than “oxymoron” but we can’t make all those poor little high school morons self-conscious.