It’s become fairly common to clip the word “awkward” to just “awk”…
But, “awk” was at one point a word that meant essentially the same thing as “awkward” and over time had “-ward” added to it, which led to “awk” becoming obsolete.
It’s a circle!
This is fantastic. But I tend to clip “awkward” to “awks”, not “awk”. There must be a name for the phenomenon of adding s or z to a word to make it more colloquial - I do this all the time: awks, lols, omgz, adorbs, hilars, ridics…
(Source: estifi)
