# Words you're always forgetting **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 9, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-youre-always-forgetting/347644 "2006-03-09T04:50:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-youre-always-forgetting/347644/1 "2006-03-09T04:50:21Z")
Which words dwell in a mental black hole for you? For me, it’s ‘expedient’, which I always have the devil of a job dredging up, having often to go through a rigmarole of ‘Might is right’, Alcibiades, Thucydides, etc. before getting the word. Sometimes it remains fugitive until a further day. This has happened for years. ‘Petulant’ is beginning to go the same way. ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-youre-always-forgetting/347644/2 "2006-03-09T04:54:42Z")
I forget “William Shatner” every other time I try to think of his name. There are others, but I forget. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-youre-always-forgetting/347644/3 "2006-03-09T05:04:42Z")
Gee, I’d tell you, but I forget what they are… \*someone \* was going to say it sooner or later! ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-youre-always-forgetting/347644/4 "2006-03-09T11:25:24Z")
For me it’s Leukimia and poppadum. Could they be related somehow? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-youre-always-forgetting/347644/5 "2006-03-09T12:25:28Z")
I draw a…a…um…I frequently cannot find the word I’m looking for. It makes me crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-youre-always-forgetting/347644/6 "2006-03-10T18:18:42Z")
Idiosyncratic. I can not remember anything else for now. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-youre-always-forgetting/347644/7 "2006-03-10T18:48:14Z")
There were several weeks recently when I positively for the life of me could not remember the name Knute Rockne. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-youre-always-forgetting/347644/8 "2006-03-10T20:24:43Z")
Wasabi. I always want to call it ginseng for some reason. If I need to come up with the word quickly, I fall back on “green stuff”. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-youre-always-forgetting/347644/9 "2006-03-10T21:19:32Z")
I know the difference between peaches and pears, but when I talk about pears, my mouth says “peaches” instead. ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-youre-always-forgetting/347644/10 "2006-03-11T03:26:17Z")
I remember another one: cilantro. Most of the time I can’t think of anything except “fresh coriander”, which is technically correct but not what I’m looking for. ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-youre-always-forgetting/347644/11 "2006-03-11T03:41:19Z")
I can never remember the difference between a hemophiliac and a hypochondriac. In my defence, both start with h and end with -iac.