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I believe I will not find the end of things in the English language and American vernacular to amuse me and keep my interest. So I wanted to dive into 3 simple words. Those words are eccentric, sorted / sordid, and retirement.
Why eccentric? Well, I was watching Iron Man 2 with my hubby and the word came up describing Tony Stark. It caught my attention so I had to find out what it meant. Looking it up in the online dictionaries really didn’t answer it for me as there seemed to be more to it than a mere dictionary definition. Goryo made this one incredibly easy for me.
“Eccentric means you are weird and wealthy. If you are middle class or poor, you are just weird or strange.”
That definition totally fits how it is commonly used here.
Why sorted? Well, the word itself is very straight forward on its definition. That wasn’t the problem, it was my occasional accent that comes up when I’m tired. The context was I had tried to say “I sorted the laundry.” But my accent changed it to
“I sordid the laundry.”
My hubby was laughing on that one as he explained how badly I changed the definition of the sentence with my accent. Instead of putting dirty laundry in piles, I changed it to an incorrect grammatical sentence meaning I was doing dirty things to the dirty laundry. Gotta watch that accent.
On a side note, I recently had a business transaction with a Philippine company. The lady on the phone stated I would need to “pint it up” regarding an email attachment. Grammatically, standard slang, and enunciation wise, that made little sense as it could be taken to mean adding more alcoholic drinks to someone or something. What she meant to say was “print it out.” That would have made complete sense.
Lastly, the word retirement came up in a discussion on prefixes, suffixes, and the general working of the English language and all of its numerous exceptions. “Re-” means again or back. “Tire” means to become exhausted or fatigued.
The suffix “-ment” usually refers to a state of being or the state of being a verb. So using the English language rules strictly, retirement means “the state of being exhausted again.”
However, that is totally wrong as it means you have ceased employment usually due to age or sufficient enough savings.
The joys of the English language will never end. 
Thank you and live well,
Anah
