The word "well" is a simple one syllable four letter word but it really isn't that simple. It can be used many ways with different meanings. The first thing that comes to mind for we who live in the country is a deep, dark, hole in the ground where we get our water. You all may want to check out Hermit Jim's blog, Coffee with the Hermit (http://hermitjim.blogspot.com/) to read about the Spooner Well. For all the other definitions (way too many for me to post here), go to this website: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/well
What bothers me is when it is used way too often at the beginning of sentence: Well, I don't care. Well, ain't you special. Well, let me tell you. And many more. It just makes me sick and then I don't feel well. Yep the quality of your health and being also can be stated using this word. Stairwells are used in tall buildings, but hopefully they don't fill with water. Well, I could go on and on but I think you are getting the point. Feel free to tell me some of your favorite ways to use the word "well" and what it means in that use. Now, don't fall down the stairwell, just get a drink of water from the well, and stay well, you hear?
Well Dizzy, I don't want to make ya sick, but, well, this is the way I talk. I hope you feel well today an' your well don't go dry.
ReplyDeleteWell...I'll see ya laters
Well, OK, Billy Bob. Hope your back get well.
DeleteHey, thanks for the mention! So many words we use have more than one meaning!
ReplyDeleteAlways read and get inspiration from your blog. Keep up the great work, Jim.
DeleteI like the old southern expression "Well I be!"
ReplyDeleteYep, you got to say that with a southern twang.
DeleteRight, and each word has a different tone - like musical scales.
DeleteWell, DD, you know we had to use that, don't ya?
ReplyDeleteWell. . . Yes, Trouble.
DeleteGuess I'd rather hear a person start a sentence with "well" than to to fill in those spaces with "uh". Don't know why, but well sounds somewhat better to me. I think my fill in word is "so".... so, on that note, I'll close.
ReplyDeleteWell and so are both used quite a lot. But then the one that I don't. care for is "You know. . ."
DeleteMade me think of a short story about 3 holes in the ground (WELL WELL WELL)
ReplyDeleteGood one.
Delete“He who has a thing to sell and goes and whispers in a well is not so apt to get the dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers.” – author unknown
ReplyDeleteThat would be true. If I climb a mountain, would I get more dollars than climbing a tree?
DeleteWell well well . . .
ReplyDeleteWell, I guess so.
DeleteWell, that's a deep subject.
ReplyDeleteSome are deep and some are not so deep, but it seems to be coming a deep subject. . . Well shucks jimkabob, It is just a deep, damp, hole in the ground.
DeleteIt's well, I'll swan, Gypsy ... lol... AND I liked the way Jack Benny said WEll! .. HAHaaaa
ReplyDeleteI say ... well ... a lot in the beginning of a sentence .. I don't know why... but it's said with a question mark kind of well..... Well? ...
Remember Reagan beginning his speech with Well... Carson loved it.
too much loling and Hahaaa ing... take out the lol
DeleteGuilty as charged...I know I over use that word.
ReplyDeleteLike one of your readers mentioned it's better than those terribles "uh" ...drives me nuts when people do that.
Yep, the "uh" and "but uh. . . " and "well uh" Dang, I could go on and on and on. Yes, that shows that they don't know what to say or how to say it. And if you ask someone a question and they say "Well" with a long pause, you know a lie is going to follow (grin).
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