Word Association
A strange phenomenomenomenon. Don't you find there's lots of simple words in the English language that cause you to think of something totally unrelated, because your mind is etched with a previous experience (invariably childhood) that leads you to the same mental image each time?
A word such as 'ball' would make me think of a burst bit of cobweb-covered fabric that got stuck round the back of the garden shed at the house I lived in when I was a child. This is understandably my first memory of a 'ball' and consequently the association most deeply embedded into my mind.
The word 'pad' conjures up an image of the Brian Cant Speak and Spell I had when I was three, the one I distinctively remember thinking that Brian Cant actually lived in. How else could the bloody thing talk like Brian bloody Cant?
The most peculiar word-association for me, however, has to be the word 'sin'. This is what I think of sin:
The only explanation I can possibly muster for this tasty mental choice stems from a portmanteau of the words 'sausage' + 'tin' = 'sin'. Do you get it? I hope you don't get it. Supermarkets don't stock these very often anymore (they are disgusting) and it would irk me so if I found out you'd bought the last one on the shelf.
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