Big thanks to the NY Times for highlighting one of Trainjotting’s world renowned Words of the Week in the new word blog Schott’s Vocab.
The one that linguist/wordplay maven (wordplayah?) Ben Schott published was the peculiar afflication that consumes countless regular commuters which sees them need to sit in the same seat (i.e. “their” seat) on the train each day.
The post elicted a funny comment from a guy in Texas who said a case of O.Seat.D. on a bus actually enabled him to meet his future wife.
Kurt L writes:
O.Seat.D.: Hey, that’s how I met my wife. I sat in “her seat” on the morning bus in Houston one day. She sat next to me and we started talking. Of course, she couldn’t speak English too well at the time…