“Seeing herself standing before her was a very perplexing experience.”

Never mind why she was standing before herself. The point of this post is the word Perplexing.

It interested me because of the X. X is a rock-star letter, that raises the interest of whatever word its in. It seems to naturally attract all the attention, so that no matter what word its in, people always remember the X.

All of the letters here word together quite well, so that the word rolls off the tongue quite naturally. There is a lot of teamwork involved in this word. Despite X getting so much attention, its remains quite grounded and not arrogant at all. In fact, the other letters don’t mind X getting the attention, as more attention for X is more attention for the word.

Overall its a very well rounded and slightly underused word. I like it.

The first thing I notice about this word is the C and the H, which are old buddies from way back. In fact, H is a letter you rarely see alone. Its always hanging out with either C, S, or T. Is it insecure, like the letter E? I don’t think so. It just likes company.

C features heavily in this word, but C takes everything in stride, so it won’t go to its head. C doesn’t mind if its popular or not. C is Cool.

First, and most obviously, it begins with the word Frag, which in the gaming world means to kill your enemy, making them explode into fragments (which is probably where the word comes from).

Another interesting thing about this word is that the letter T is kind of stuck on the end, out of place. Its a tag-along letter, which is odd because usually T is quite prominent in its words. Pronouncing ‘Fragmen’ is very easy, and rolls off the tongue quite nicely, but to say ‘Fragment’ you have to add the extra T on the end, almost like an afterthought. Fragmen-T. And the T at the end is almost like a spitting sound. Its a nice sounding word with a spit at the end.

It also has ‘men’ in there, as if to suggest that men are inherently fragmented. Whether this is true or not, I’ll let you decide :p

It makes me wonder whether E is a bit insecure, and lacking self-confidence. Even though its popular, it might not realise that. That would explain why its trying to get into as many words as possible. The A seems perfectly content with just one showing in this word, because its secure with itself. But E on the other hand, is the opposite.

I always have trouble with the sound of this word. The D at the end seems out of place. A T would be much more suitable. Frigit is much easier for me to say than Frigid. Unfortunately, Frigit is not a word.

Visually, however, its a nice looking word. The two I’s make it seem slightly symetrical -  as well as the ‘g’, which is similar to an upsidedown ‘d’. All the letters in this word are nice ones. The F is a slightly quirky letter, but being the leader of the word makes it a bit more respectible.

The word Frigid reminds me of the Danish miniseries Riget. Frigid is a cold word, and Riget was a very cold show, so it seems kind of appropriate. What’s funny is in actual Danish, the word Riget doesn’t sound anything like Frigit, but it does when I say it