WORDING: MUST

Let’s talk, if we must, about the word MUST.

It’s one of my favorite four-letter words because it makes the speaker sound so desperate when they say it, or even weak.

“It must have been someone else.” Always sounds suspect to me.

“We must complete the assignment or we’ll all die!”

It’s a word to be used when something is necessary or required. It’s a word I feel like I heard way too much as a kid. And it’s an ugly sounding word, kin to ‘musk’ and ‘uh’, like the antithesis of ‘most’ or the swamp cousin of ‘moist’.

But sometimes, ugly words are what MUST be used to get out point across.

One of my favorite movie titles and all-time favorite HAMMER HORROR film is FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED!

Have you seen it?

It’s the fifth in their series and unfortunately, spoiler, even though the fiery ending would lead us to believe the dastardly doctor has been destroyed, there was one more sequel (the Ralph Bates starring HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN being ignored, but not out of distaste, I adore that movie, that movie features one of my favorite endings of all-time–maybe I’ll write more on that later).

WORDING is an ongoing series of posts I’ll be making about words. I won’t always delve into proper use. depending on the word and what it means to me and potentially others there may be articles about words that trigger me, words I love, words that always look misspelled to me and more.