I missed updating the blog last week, which wasn’t very optimal of me. Nonetheless, I have spent copious undefined years studying words and this Word Review series aims to review some of them. Do we really need all of these different words? Is that really..optimal for us as English speakers? Well, let’s find out, starting with the one word I keep using in this introduction. Of course, we will be rating “Optimal” on a scale unique to the word in a continuation of my life long work to study language, words, and their silly little meanings.

According to most scientists, there are no fewer than 16 billion words in the English language. This “Word Review” series aims to rate some of them on a scale unique to each word in kind. One of the things I used to do sometimes was to study language, words, and their silly little meanings - this will be a continuation of that work