The English language is a bizarre world of indefinite discoveries and it contains an overwhelming pocket of information that we never have the time or focus of mind to even meddle with. Most peculiarly, the root behind every ingeniously coined technicality, or in brutal cold hard language--vocabulary--has a distinct and inextricably linked intimacy I would like to explore. And so we delve into the pool of unknowns in the dictionary:

Squash, a well-known recreational racquet sport that had been given its name as a reference to the "squashable" soft ball which is an essential element of the game. Or maybe because in every all-out war of the sports realm, the victimized loser will be trounced, so much so that his spirits may be squashed. Deviating from the conventional condescending notions, the word "squash" breathes the idea of flexibility and fast-paced adaptability. Go with the flow or be prepared to be squashed.

The word "surreal" was coined by the poet/art critic Guillaume Apollinaire, which we now associate with strange juxtapositions or absurd combinations, like those experienced in dreams. One might ponder and deduce the presence of the word 'real' within the unrealistic notions of 'surreal' presents in itself an irony and a mystery. And if you were to mutter the word in some exotic accent, it might probably come across as "so real" which is once again highly ironic to the context of the word.

And maybe even the simplest of words coined by coalescing a phrase into a single word. The classic examples of "insofar" and "woebegone" are self-explanatory in nature and still we marvel at how they each tell a different tale from the 3 separate words which constitute their mastery.

And now for the word of the day:

Crush. 

Huh.

I guess maybe the warning was always there. I was just too blind to know and heed.