I love words. I’m always up to learn new ones. I thought I might learn a new one today when I was listening to WGN Radio. Judy Markey was talking about hearing a word that she had never heard before. She’d read it in a newspaper earlier this week, and then one of the sports announcers covering the Cubs game, Tuesday night, used it. The word was “scrum.”
\nDictionary.com defines scrum as:
\nA play in Rugby in which the two sets of forwards mass together around the ball and, with their heads down, struggle to gain possession of the ball.
\nOr: A disordered or confused situation involving a number of people.
\nI knew the sports definition for “scrum,” but I didn’t know it had a non-sports connotation. The announcer was describing the mob on Waveland Avenue outside Wrigley Field in Chicago. As a home run was hit over the walls of the field into their midst, he said a scrum of people reached for the ball.
\nDH says scrums are what you get when you eat crackers in bed. (rolling eyes) That might be the last time I read my blog to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I love words. I’m always up to learn new ones. I thought I might learn a new one today when I was listening to WGN Radio. Judy Markey was talking about hearing a word that she had never heard before. … Continue reading