nice words 14

the latest in our series of chart-topping words is ...

vagary: which means an extravagant, erratic, or unpredictable notion, action, or occurrence.

it's another one that sounds like it is - vague, vagary.

presumably the word vagrant, comes from a combination of vagary and rant - because vagrants either make me want to rant about the injustice of the world, or about the fact that they keep tapping me up for money, which i realise is quite erratic and unpredictable of me.

one of my vagaries, i guess.

my only real vagary today was to wonder at the stupidity of a world which can apparently find any number of people willing to pay £10,000 or more for a £170 seat at the wimbledon mens final on the off chance that andy murray will be in it. 
i really believe that people with that amount of money to spare should give it to charity.
but i suppose they would just think doing that counts as erratic behaviour.

hey ho! 
anyway, VAGARY comes into the charts at number 14 and i hope you will make it feel at home by using it a lot.

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