So I was talking to my friend Logan, who is also a logophile (pronounced LOG-o-FILE).
“What’s your favorite onomatopoeia?” I asked him.
First, logophiles like words, and not logs, and second, in case you’ve forgotten your middle school English class, an onomatopoeia (ON-o-MOT-o-PEE-uh) is a word that is formed from a sound, like buzz, zip, or meow.
“I think my favorite is spelunk, because that’s the sound you make when you fall in a hole in a cave.”
I thought that was pretty funny. People who wander around in caves don’t find it funny, however; they prefer to be called cavers instead of spelunkers.
Maybe you could ask Jesse James.
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