Wednesday, 22 June 2011

On Being Whelmed ...

Today I have been considering this word:
Overwhelmed.


Some of us have been there, and there is a credible dictionary definition.

If you watch the Eurovision Song Contest, you might be underwhelmed.
Now, that last word does not appear in my English dictionary, but spell-check seems happy with it.

My question is: what is this verb ‘to whelm’?
That’s not in my dictionary either, and it is unrecognisable by spell-check.

I think it might be good to be continuously whelmed, don’t you?
Or, maybe, just occasionally.

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