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Today I bought my first jegging.
Now I feel every one of my 56 years. I feel like the old lady who buys a super-basic cellphone to keep in touch with her grandchildren and brags about her new purchase to all her senior friends.
Apparently, "jeggings" (plural) is already in the dictionary. And retail people like to shorten "pants" to "pant" and "jeans" to "jean," so "jeggings" similarly becomes "jegging."
I like the way my jegging looks on me. It actually fits my weird proportions (fat belly and butt, comparatively skinny legs) better than the thrift-store jeans I'm wearing now. But the word itself is just so ugly. Just because new words are being added to the English language doesn't mean I have to like them.
Now I feel every one of my 56 years. I feel like the old lady who buys a super-basic cellphone to keep in touch with her grandchildren and brags about her new purchase to all her senior friends.
Apparently, "jeggings" (plural) is already in the dictionary. And retail people like to shorten "pants" to "pant" and "jeans" to "jean," so "jeggings" similarly becomes "jegging."
I like the way my jegging looks on me. It actually fits my weird proportions (fat belly and butt, comparatively skinny legs) better than the thrift-store jeans I'm wearing now. But the word itself is just so ugly. Just because new words are being added to the English language doesn't mean I have to like them.
