If having a song that you cannot get out of your head is called an “ear worm”, then I have a brain worm.
Many years ago, an acquaintance was denigrating his father, saying he didn’t know any four syllable words. My response was, “refrigerator, five syllables
!” His response to that was, “ice box, two.” I couldn’t think of any other words of four or more syllables at that time. However, his father was a mechanic and surely would have known carburetor, generator, alternator, and radiator.
Now (more that 40 years later!), I cannot stop trying to come up with counter-examples. Whenever I read, speak, hear, think of a longish word, I have to stop and count the syllables. Then I have to curse the fellow who put this in my head.
Mundane and pointless, and now I have shared.
California, Colorado, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Alabama, Mississippi, Connecticut, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis, Cincinnati.
Desperado, democracy, constitution, disagreement, political, suicidal, homicidal, merry-go-round, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, dictionary, psychology.
Aarrghh!
