Saturday, July 04, 2009

“If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.” - Elbert Hubbard

I have, I'll admit, a rather pedantic need for names to fit the things that they're naming...if the moniker doesn't feel right I have a hard time getting up any enthusiasm for the item in question. So you can imagine my feelings when I received the following in an email from Net-a-Porter...

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Now, realistically, I see the merits of the loop scarf...but I find it hard to get past the inherent ugliness of the word snood...or the idea that, come the Fall, cool girls everywhere will be discussing the virtues of snood A over snood B...or that the term snood imparts any sense of luxury.

Am I alone on this one or does anyone else get hung up on names?

3 comments:

  1. I don't mind "snood" at all. There are many other words that annoy me more...such as "effortless."

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  2. Anonymous6:51 PM

    Snood *is* a particularly ugly word. I'd rather call this a cowl or a smoke-ring, although smoke-ring generally implies something tighter around the head and neck that flares out over the shoulders.

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  3. Anon - I've never heard the term smoke-ring used in that way before...but I love it...

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