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They would be better gruntled two years later since K.U. would win the NCAAA Tournament in 1987.


Danny Manning for President.


There should be a word for these back-formations that specifically come from cutting this prefix looking thing off the front of a word to invert their meaning.

Disgruntled -> gruntled

Unhinged -> hinged


What if we called them k formations, by applying the same rule we're trying to describe to the word backfoations?

Overwhelmed/underwhelmed -> whelmed Discombobulated -> combobulate Disghust -> ghust


OT, but I looked up "whelmed" in after reading your comment and...we never really needed "overwhelmed" at all. Just plain "whelmed" seems bad enough.


I use "whelming" almost daily to denote something that I or the person I'm talking to expect to be over/underwhelming, but turns out not to be.

Them: "How'd you like that new burger joint Bad Jimmies? I heard it's amazing!"

Me: "Not bad, but I found their burgers to be...[0] whelming."

0. The pregnant pause-for-effect is very important here, since it makes even the use of "whelming" a whelming experience.


https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/how-i-met-my-wife...


Inadvertently -> advertently




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