The Opposite of Tip of the Tongue

No matter how bad our memories are, there always seems to be a word that we say we have on the tip of out tongue, but still can’t seem to recall it. I didn’t know that it actually had a title and that it was called Tip of the Tongue. After finding that out, it was not a huge surprise to find out that there is something the total opposite of that. The idea of a phonetic representation to a lexical item being repeated so much that it loses its semantic meaning seems to be those words that we continually use over and over, only to step back one day and think what is that. I am a frequent watcher of Grey’s Anatomy and the article I got this from referenced a recent episode where Meredith related that the word spoon had lost its meaning to her. I’m not sure if a word I’m thinking of could be used in the same way or if it’s just an ongoing change of definition that gives this word so many meanings. The word gay to me when I use it or hear it from others doesn’t reference the sexual manner of a person. Instead, I think of it as being dumb or silly. When I say the word I’m not even thinking about a meaning because it has been said so many times. From that, I think it could be placed in the same category of a word being used so often that it loses its own meaning. 

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