This isn't very important, but I keep using a word that the spell checker disagrees with. Google also says it doesn't exist and I actually know it's wrong. The word is: kirred What I'm actually trying to say is cooed, but not as a pigeon does. More how a girl might speak when she is suggestively friendly to a love interest. Now, I believe I bastardized the word from the Dutch kirde, which, when translated, indeed becomes cooed. I try to avoid using it, obviously, but every now and then it just appears on the page. And even though I know it's wrong, I'm wondering if I really made it up myself or that I actually picked it up in English somewhere. The word doesn't look or sound made up, you know? Hence my childlike wonder.
Well I just checked the crossword solver, and there are no known clues for it, so I think it is safe to say it is all yours.
Great. Now all I have to do is become a famous author and it'll catch on in no time... Well, look at that. This'll come in handy. The problem with writing in a second language is that eventually you start doubting every third word and I'm sure this would be one of those third words if I thought of it myself.
Well John Milton used to make up words all the time. Maybe you’ll get it into the 2022 version of the Oxford English Dictionary. And you can get this word actualised in honour of your name!
I'm not even sure if I'll get to a 2022 version of any-sort-of-published-book, but fingers crossed. ;o) I know, right? Hence my confusion about it. Have done. Though I feel that's sort of a step up (superlative?) in intensity. I blame Ted Nugent's Cat Scratch Fever for that.
When I read your word, I kept thinking I've seen it before. That might just be because it sounds so purrrfect. (as Catwoman might say)
the more you use it, the more your computer will learn and not mark it as "wrong" lol. True stuff! My main character name was "wrong"...... after about 100 pages or so, my computer just gave up marking it as wrong
I don't think it's that intense. "To speak in a low, soft voice, especially when expressing contentment or acting seductively."
Yeah, it's just an association I have with some words. I have an even dumber problem with expectantly. Makes me think of pregnant women.
^^ That could be a literalizing problem. Maybe you're seeing it too literally, and ignoring the symbolic meaning. Because expectancy is a form of pregnancy, just not so physical. The moment is pregnant with possibility. But then I'm kinda weird about symbolism and probably take it farther than most people do.
Yeah, I tend to literalize (a word wich I do like, I just disovered). It's not always appreciated either, in my line of work. But it's not like I'm unable to use the word as intended, I'll just try and use another word first, if at all possible.
Actually I think most people see it the way you and @Friedrich Kugelschreiber do. I'm definitely the weirdo on this one! I love dreams and symbolism a bit too much (most people would say).
