A sipid story of requited love!! 


The title sounds strange doesn’t it? Ever thought about those negative words and expressions which just don't seem to have a positive or if they do are rarely used? Ever read a novel about requited love, furled your umbrella or recommended a wine because you thought it was sipid? Is the loser in a boxing match referred to as vincible? When you have dismantled an engine can you then remantle it? If you can be gormless why can't you be gormful, or at least possess gorms?

I came across this article recently and was amazed how difficult it was to read let alone assimilate. Yet had the words and phrases been in their usual negative form it would have been simplicity itself!! Hope it amuses you as much as it did me. 


How I Met my Wife by Jack Winter 







[First appeared in The New Yorker on 25 July 1994 and was reproduced in the Winter 2000 newsletter]

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