Midnoon

MIDNOON

    WTF kind of a word is that?  It appeared in the Scrabble section of the daily newspaper a couple weeks ago.  By the "par score", I knew it had to be a 7-letter word.  And heck, there are two N's and two O's, so how many combinations could there be?  Naturally, "midnoon" came into my consideration, but I rejected it.  Naturally, I was stumped on this one until reading the answer in the paper the next morning.

    In fairness, it is a real word.  You can google it and read its definition at Merriam-Webster's site.

    But WTF, man.  Noon is a 1-dimensional point in the time dimension.  It has no width, so there is no mid-point.  You can have "high noon" (exactly at the point of noon), "noon hour" (12:00 to 1:00), and even "noonish" (around 12 or so).  But you can't have "midnoon".

    It's a stupid word that needs to be purged from our language.  If we don't, thousands of years from now, our descendants will find it in an ancient dictionary of ours, and conclude that we were mere Neanderthals, brain-wise.