Disclaimer: C.O.W.* alert!
It's been a pet peeve of mine since I was eight. If I didn't know a word or a definition my teacher in school would urge me to look it up... of course, the age-old conundrum has been: "if I can't spell it how can I look it up?" I'm old enough to remember a certain television show in the 60's that spawned a catch phrase: "look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls'." There's a modern day twist to the same old command now, a 2012 exhortation that I see everywhere on an almost daily basis; this time put forth by my peers, not comedians or my educators: "Google It!". I've heard it used as a throw-away phrase, in an almost elitist manner, and let me tell you... it strikes a big ol' nerve in yours truly! If you have something to say, that I don't understand, please take the time to explain it to me or be courteous and supply me with a link. Rest assured, if there's something I don't know I will, indeed, look it up. I might even use Google as the search engine; but I'm not looking it up because you Over the weekend I dribbled some spray adhesive on the front of a knit shirt and I cannot get it out with normal laundering, does anyone have any ideas? Oh, never mind... I might know where I can look that up.
