Top 10 Signs You're a Word Geek

1.  You get very excited that hotel sign says atria (because there is more than one atrium).  However, you're devastated when you get home and write this article only to find that you forgot to take a picture of the sign.
2.  You go through the conference program and wonder if it's a typo that that the security officer's name is Tony Hilton.
3.  In the middle of a serious conversation, you get diverted by proper pronunciation of words like "angst."
4.  You miss your Oxford English Dictionary while you're traveling.
5.  You get excited when grocery stores correctly use "fewer" rather than "less."  You've given up on getting irritated at "less," but you still get excited by "fewer."
6.  You notice when a singer completely enunciates verbs with "ing" - "feeling" instead of "feelin'"
7.  You save old, emotional emails because you think they might make good fodder for a future book.
8.  You and your children notice typos on the open house sign. Actually, they notice the typos before you do, and you feel so proud.
9.  You choose to listen to certain songs because you love the alliteration and the way the words roll off the tongue.  (Case in point:  "That's Life" by Frank Sinatra,  I adore "I've been a puppet, a pauper, a poet, a pirate, a pawn, and a king."  In "Ode to Billy Joe," I wait with anticipation for "another sleepy, dusty, delta day" line.)
10. You're texting, and you're trying to do it fast because you have something important to say.  And you're doing it with one hand.  Yet, you still take the time to put the commas in the right places.

Comments

[Anastasia]

For number 9, you quoted "That's Life" wrong. It should be " a puppet, a puaper, a pirate, a poet, a paun, and a king."

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[Beverly]

Love this!!