Last night i was combing through my commonplace book to do the annual reading review post this week and out fell the bottom of a benadryl box with the word circumbendibus scrawled on it.
CIRCUMBENDIBUS
Say it out load.
You can't tell me that word doesn't sound totally made up and if I -who bends the english language to suit my needs daily- think it sounds ridiculous, that's saying something.
Just from the roots you can figure out that it had something to do with going around something or, you know, bending something.
CIRCUMBENDIBUS
I seem to recall that i ran across it in the book The Anubis Gates.
Originating in the late 1600s, it means a roundabout way.
Try to use it in a sentence today, even though i bet you will have to fashion a circumbendibus sentence to make it fit.
ps- spellcheck totally thinks that i made that word up; i didn't, really
2 comments:
I think the fact that it is on the bottom of a Benadryl box says it all......it's a word made up on the effects of antihistimine.
Oh, and the meaning I had in mind...isn't fit to be published here ;)
That's ridonkulous!
-Frack
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