Flipping the pages of my 99 cent dictionary I got at Wal-Mart, I searched in the “S’s” so I could finally understand what the word skew means. This word has become popular at WCHS this year; however, the interpretations of the word vary.
I walk in the halls and some guy in overalls yells skew. I sit in the auditorium and a girl in the second row yells skew, I drive past the carwash and low and behold, someone yells skew.
Responses to the word also vary. Some respond by also yelling skew and some are downright annoyed by it.
So, Mr. Webster, what’s skew? It means to swerve, to squint, the equivalent to a conjugant, a wood chisel, and to shun. What? I wish a professional wordsmith would make up his mind. So if Mr. Webster can’t decide what it’s supposed to mean, why should we?
An informal survey at WCHS students revealed a variety of opinions on just exactly what skew means. The following were among some explanations for this word:
• “It means ye haw!”
• Skew means hurry up, get out of here the cops are coming.”
• “Skew means you’re having a dad blame good time.”
• “Rednecks say it when they’re having fun.”
• “Something about Broke Back Mountain?”
• “When you’re working on the farm you yell it to get the horses to go.”
• “Isn’t it like a stick you eat things on?”
So instead of saying, “Woohoo, let’s go, this is awesome, giddy up, or delicious,” I could just say skew?