Tuesday, March 24, 2020
The Unkenneling
My favorite word in all of Shakespeare is "unkennel."
"If his occulted guilt / Do not itself unkennel in one speech, / It is a damned ghost that we have seen . . . "
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2
A Le Moyne College professor noted that word more than fifty years ago. I remembered.
Unkennel. You can picture it. Angry, growling dogs. Barking, drooling, panting with ravenous rage.
We used to use the term "go viral." That video went viral on YouTube. The tweet went viral in minutes. Their Facebook post went viral.
Viral?
Coronavirus killed that. Or should.
The unkenneled coronavirus.
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my favorite word might be vacuum just because it is totally badass that there are 2 u's back to motherfckung back in that word.
Um, okay. Did Shakespeare use it? The Brits say 'hoover' for vacuum. Too MF o's.
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