CH and I like to engage in word play. Our repartees keep us amused on a dull workday.
Today, I accidentally referred to ‘touts’ as ‘touters’.
CH: A person who touts is a tout, not a touter. Just as a person who ushers is an usher and not an usherer, and a marshal…
Suddenly our mundane Monday didn’t seem so boring anymore.
Me: Oh, did I say touter? I knew it but it slipped my mind (or fingers)! So I'm a lout, not a louter. Can?
CH : *pouts*
Me : That makes you a pouter. How come a person who pouts is a pouter, while a lout is not a louter, and a cook is not a cooker? Yet one who loots is a looter? Why?
CH : Then hooters are people who hoot lah?
Me : Want *hoot* is it?
'to hoot' is 'to fight' in hokkien
Well, what can I say? English is the strangest language....
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