Hey all

Ok I'll admit it. I'm a word person. I love words. I guess you could even take it so far as to say I'm a bit of a word nerd, a term which i guess doubly confirms my 'word nerd' status as it so groovily rhymes. And I guess it's because I'm a word nerd that this came to my attention today in a situation where any normal person would have just gone "hm!" and moved on (if that).

"Dagnammit" -- that's the right word, right? You know, the non-offensive swear word used by bad guys in kids movies -- extended further in Home Alone, if you remember, to "ricker schmblacker corpa shmicker" -- and oftentimes accompanied by an angrily shaken fist? Well that's what I always thought it was, until today when my confidence was unexpectedly shaken by a reply to one of my posts (people have been replying! I was so excited!) where the writer expressed his frustration at the web page designer with this word: "dagnabbit".

So which is it? Dagnammit? Dagnabbit? Or something else entirely? Help me out here! You have to understand what this uncertainty is doing to me. I can't eat, can't sleep... although that may have more to do with the fact that I am both well rested and well fed at the moment than any extreme distress associated with not knowing how to pronounce an obscure expletive. That, though, is pointless; I want to know.

Roll your eyes if you will, but understand where I'm coming from. If you were a word nerd like me, you would understand.