No More Listicles

First, let me establish that I LOVE combining words. For example, my kids have Chanukah-themed pajamas—their pajamukahs. I love that word so much that I'm going to make sure they have Chanukah pajamas every year just so that I can keep using it.

There are some word combos that just don't work when you say them out loud. Listicles is one of those words. It just sounds too much like testicles. Once I made this connection I couldn't think about the word any other way, and now I'm bringing it to your attention so that we can all stop using it.

Do you hear it? What if I said, "You can tell this list is male because of its listicles." Now do you hear it?

So, no more job postings asking for listicles, please. Maybe we could come up with another word. Larticles? No. Listitorial? Maybe. Or we could just admit defeat and call them articles with lists. Or list-based articles.

Just, please, no more listicles. Are we all cool? Great, now I can check that off my listicle.

Get back to writing!

Sadie

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