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.
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
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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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