harum-scarum

Another compound word! I love to do these types of words because they are usually very fun to say. This one is, according to the AHD, an alternation of a saying: "hare 'em, scare 'em." Hare means "to frighten," while scare, which is ultimately Old Norse skjarr, means "timid." How these two meanings come together is a little bit puzzling. To frighten and scare someone somehow comes together to mean, according to the AHD, "lacking a sense of responsiblity, recklessness." Perhaps if one goes out of their way and is reckless, it scares those who are structured and ordered around them.

Anywho, this being the last word blog entry, I will go ahead and say that I throroughly enjoyed this assignment. I really have enjoyed looking at other people's entries, mostly because I feel that mine doesn't stand quite as close (on the level of awesomeness). And now I leave...