Word to the Wise: Jocular

“Jocular” (JOK-yuh-lur) – from the Latin – means facetious; comic or jesting.

Example (as used by Don Hauptman today): “Unless the writer is Tarzan or Frankenstein’s monster, he meant to say methinks, an archaic form of ‘I think’ or ‘It seems to me’ that, nowadays, is used only in a jocular fashion.”

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