use big words whenever you can

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by DanaC

One thing that really winds me up, is when I use a word that isn't madly obscure, but which someone else hasn't come across before, and they act like I am somehow bizarre for knowing and using that word.

My sis-in-law (no great shakes in the words dept; she pronounces potpourri with a "t") once told my mother that I was "snooty" because I sometimes use words she doesn't know.