In anticipation of the summer travel season, here is a travel lexicon to enjoy.  Perhaps you may find some of these useful . . .

~ Frequent Liar: someone who boasts about traveling to places he/she has never been

~ Scary-on: an item that’s clearly too big to fit into a plane’s overhead bin, whose owner insists on carrying it on anyway.

~ Screamese: the loud voice used only to speak to foreigners, as opposed to learning a few rudimentary terms to get by.

~ Business *#*ss:  the dude who shows up at the airport in his best suit thinking it will help him get an upgrade.

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I like to make up words. My daughter laughs at me and my students smile, but adding a suffix to an existing word or creating a new word creates a more precise identification. Here is the first set in my own lexicon of words:

~ Grocerying: the act of grocery shopping (quicker to say “I’m grocerying” rather than “I’m at the grocery store)
~ Scrumbling: the act of scraping the black stuff off overdone toast (why don’t we have a word for this?)
~ Quizlet: a quiz worth very few points
~ Brassles: the spikes on a hairbrush (I think I was bored getting ready for work one morning)

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