If you say even the most mundane word enough times it can begin to sound nonsenical. Perhaps the folks having conniptions over the use of the title word of this entry in a Newbery-awarding-winning children’s novel haven’t said it enough. Given their objections, they might have avoided saying the word at all.

If you’re clicking over to read the New York Times article linked above, you’ll be able to take advantage of a new technological trick, double-clicking on a word (the trigger actually varies from browser to browser) to get a pop-up window with dictionary definitions and other references. Here’s what you’d encounter for “scrotum”:

The musculocutaneous sac that encloses the testes and is formed of skin, a network of nonstriated muscular fibers, cremasteric fascia, the cremaster muscle, and the serous coverings of the testes and epididymides.

This article appears in Feb 15-21, 2007.

Consciously avoidant. Now accepting applications for biographer in order to fill out this space more appropriately.

4 replies on “Scrotum, Scrotum, Scrotum”

  1. The Scrotum Song by The Asylum Street Spankers

    Scrotum, scrotum,
    It’s my wrinkly, crinkly bag of skin.
    Scrotum, Scrotum,
    It’s the thing I keep my testes in.
    Well it’s wrinkly and it’s crinkly and it’s covered with hair
    and I don’t know what I’d do if it was not there.
    Oh, scrotum, scrotum,
    It’s my wrinkly, crinkly bag of skin (We really mean it)
    It’s my wrinkly, crinkly bag of skin (Go tell your mommy)
    It’s my wrinkly, crinkly bag of skin!

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