Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

My wife and I enjoy the show. We're almost caught up with the summer podcasts. And on a recent trip from San Diego to L.A. and back, we listened to the first show for the new season. Congratulations on a fine show!

My comment is about diegogarcity, which I believe was a proposed word in one of the summer podcasts. Directly after listening to that podcast, we found ourselves with some free time and went to Old Town, San Diego. In a matter of just a couple of hours, we were confronted with "Diego Garcia" in an Old Town Bookstore! Neither of us had ever heard of Diego Garcia before that.

Just last week, I had mentioned Diego Garcia to my wife in regards to another "diego garcia-ish" moment. Later that day, while reading another book, I came upon "Diego Garcia" in a footnote!

I'm convinced that "diegogarcity" is a true phenomenon, worthy of its name. In fact, in this age of neuroscience and genomics, it may even have become genetically encoded.

Whenever and wherever I can now, such as at a barbecue restaurant in San Diego that supplies butcher paper for table clothes and crayons for the wait, we write "Diego Garcia" next to all of our silly stick figures.

Woot!
-Vinnie-, or -V-