I find the gross over use of the word amazing extremely irritating and here is the latest.
On Radio 4 this morning there was an article on a woman called Daisy. I didn't hear the start of that article but the only thing missing from Daisy's persona was a speech impediment: that would have been a nap hand!!
Daisy seems to be someone who pans for gold in rivers. She was married in the highlands of Scotland in a place where all of her guests, fellow panners, could pan for gold the day after the wedding. Good for them.
BUT I heard Daisy saying that many people in Scotland panned for gold a couple of centuries or so ago and then some of that gold ended up in the crown jewels of some Jock King. Daisy said with rising, excited, inflection, that incorporating that gold in that King's baubles was amazing! Why on earth was that amazing Daisy?
People pan for gold. People find gold. People do various things with the gold they have found such as
- sell it
- keep it for themselves
- turn it into jewellery
NONE of those objectives is amazing.
I don't suppose Daisy will read this and I don't want to write and ask her what was so amazing because she will undoubtedly write back in a bilious manner.
Here is a picture of Daisy I have just created:
Eeesh! New programme now and the very first guest said that even walking round her garden when it is covered in snow is amazing. WHY is it amazing?
From www.dictionary.com:
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a⋅maze –verb (used with object)
- 1 to overwhelm with surprise or sudden wonder; astonish greatly.
- 2 Obsolete. to bewilder; perplex.
- –verb (used without object)
- 3 to cause amazement: a new art show that delights and amazes.
DW
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