I was unaware of this fun fact until today, but I have just discovered, after years of making jokes about it, that apparently the word gruntled actually IS the opposite of disgruntled.
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Good God Dawn! This blows my mind. Many years ago, I told a boyfriend I was disgruntled, and he replied, “you can’t be disgruntled because you’ve never been gruntled.” We both laughed heartily, assuming it was not a word. Even my spell checker is underlining it in red. How did you discover this language altering fact! Leslie recently posted… There’s Not a Speck of Blogging Advice in this Post (So Why Read it?)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who laughed at it! And I have no idea what possessed me to Google the word, but I suspect the reason falls somewhere between bored and uninspired!
Oh my! I’m now going to have to use this word all the time! I love MW’s sample sentence: “we were gruntled with a good meal.” That sounds so utterly hilarious to me for some reason! Suzanne recently posted… Dear Uncle Stevie: An Epistolary, Intensely Personal Book Review
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February 26, 2012
Interesting…
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February 26, 2012
Wow, thank you! I will check it out!
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Congrats on another award and…yea, I didn’t know that either! LOL
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February 27, 2012
Thanks, Sabrina!
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Good God Dawn! This blows my mind. Many years ago, I told a boyfriend I was disgruntled, and he replied, “you can’t be disgruntled because you’ve never been gruntled.” We both laughed heartily, assuming it was not a word. Even my spell checker is underlining it in red. How did you discover this language altering fact!
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February 27, 2012
I’m glad I’m not the only one who laughed at it! And I have no idea what possessed me to Google the word, but I suspect the reason falls somewhere between bored and uninspired!
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gruntle
Dawn recently posted… Gruntled
Oh my! I’m now going to have to use this word all the time! I love MW’s sample sentence: “we were gruntled with a good meal.” That sounds so utterly hilarious to me for some reason!
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February 27, 2012
I know, it’s great, isn’t it?! I’m trying to find ways to work the word into everyday conversation, even if just to see the looks on people’s faces!
OK, is it people’s or peoples’? I am having a punctuation brain freeze. Argh!
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And… another word gets added to my vocabulary! Thanks!
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March 1, 2012
LOL, no problem!
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