Picking the Right Words

Euphemism. I had to look it up down at the library. It means picking a gentle word to describe a rough subject. One profession that doesn't rely on euphemisms is dentistry. You're setting in the chair and the dentist calls out the names of the weapons he wants handed to him; things like picks, burrs, drills etc. I think they could make things more pleasant with words like pillow, petal, and breeze. They would know what they all were because they would be taught while in school. Sometimes, like in the movies, an avoidance of a harsh word might serve the same purpose as coming out and saying it. Like in an old Gary Cooper movie when he said a man was so poor, "He didn't have a pot to put flowers in." We all knew what he was referring to cause everybody in the picture show house laughed. Most people around here use euphemisms a lot, except when they're out in a boat fishing or walking through the woods hunting. Also, euphemisms aren't to popular down at the pool hall.