VERTIGO, ANYONE ?

Recently, 100 new words were added to the dictionary. Among them, GINORMOUS, BOLLYWOOD and SUDOKU. Now it is official- bollywood is no more a fancy term used by starry-eyed desi movie buffs. Sudoku is the popular number game, seen in many newspapers and magazines. Ginormous (what?) is gigantic + enormous. Well, never heard that before but the best example of GINORMOUS would be something that is catastrophically large in its kind. Just another adjective added to better explain how "big" something is...

Talking of which, take a look at this picture of a roller coaster at Cedar Point theme part in Ohio, USA. Top thrill dragster, is the tallest (420 ft) and the fastest (0-120 mph in 4 seconds) roller coaster in the world. The train zooms up at a blazing speed up the sky, twisting and turning. After reaching stratospherical heights, it arches and hurtles down, twisting and turning at the same blistering speed.

The pictures of course, do not do justice to the "ginormic" (another new word?) proportions of fear, thrill and excitement and vertigo this would cause. Americans have a preoccupation for anything that is out of the ordinary, huge, superlative, and of course, insane. Who ever thought of this idea surely had the word "GINORMOUS" in his mind.