Outrageously Funny Search Suggestion Engine :: Supplement, Supplementary

👉 Alright settle down now, let’s tackle this little mouthful. You guys seem awfully tripped up by what a seemingly straightforward, almost polite-sounding word actually boils down to. Let’s talk about the somewhat aggressively beige, vaguely insulting bit of Anglo-Saxon that is…

supplement / supplementary.

Now, originally, and frankly, rather beautifully, supplementum meant something along the lines of an “addition to the breast of your tunic. Like a darn, you know? You needed to patch things up. That was its whole shtick. It was about making it whole again! (Okay, I felt that little bit of embroidery history. Gotta nerd out sometimes.) Somewhere along the line—and honestly who’s entirely to blame here?—it morphed into what we now mostly mean as a thing you add to your already reasonably full meal. Think multivitamins, side dishes, or, let's be brutally frank, whatever the bloke next door is shoveling down his gullet in that frankly disturbing amount. The slightly more elevated – and therefore a touch more judgmental – version of it is the somewhat stuffy supplementary . That just layers on another level of "it's barely enough to fill the gap, isn’t it? Just… you know...a little bit extra." There’s this very specific, almost pitying, tone attached when you say that. Basically, in modern English (and I stress, a