Does anybody else ever notice this: you’ve never heard or seen something before, but if you encounter it once, all of a sudden, you see it everywhere?
Up until yesterday, I had never before seen or heard the word “kerfuffle,” but I was reading an article* in last month’s VF last night and encountered it for the first time. It was literally one of the last words that I read before drifting off, which may be why (in addition to its almost onomatopoetic nature) it stuck with me. So, this morning, I opened up my Google Reader to catch up with Serious Eats and came across this article, again invoking this strange, new (to me) word.
So, if you’re keeping track, that’s not a single time in 40 (almost 41) years, and then twice in 8 hours. Weird.
* This article is just elevated National Enquirer-style trash, but it’s worth reading just so that you can be properly horrified by this.
