Last Friday Night, I claimed that the word "grieve" did not exist.
My office mates and I were walking down Ponciano and spotted a sign on one of the salon shops. It read that the establishment was temporarily closed because the employees were attending a wake for a colleague's relative.
The phrase used in the sign was "we grieve" and I immediately shot back that it should be mourn as in "we mourn". Pressed for an explanation by Henry and Grace, I said that there was no such thing as the word "grieve", just "grief" and "grieving".
Even now, I still wonder what made me so confident to issue that proclamation. My best guess is that I thought the word "grieve" was so awkward in any sentence that I believed it didn't exist at all.
It also caught me thinking how many words have I discarded over the years for the sole reason that they looked disjointed and weird whenever I use them. Hmmm...
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