Mucopolysaccharides
I’m up way too late and I’m watching a show about medical mysteries while playing stupid video games. An illness called Hunter syndrome was being described on the show and I overheard a familiar word: mucopolysaccharides. It’s one of those words you hear all the time, right? In fact, the only reason it’s a familiar term is because it’s an ingredient in the Scruples brand shampoo we used to use in our household when I was in high school, and sometimes the shampoo bottle is the only reading material you have available when you’re stuck on the can.
Apparently mucopolysaccharides is not just a shampoo ingredient but is a natural substance found in the human body. I had never heard the word anywhere else and I am glad to discover that I’ve been pronouncing it correctly all these years (seriously, it comes up in conversation all the time).
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September 15th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Glad I’m not the only one who reads the shampoo bottle on the can. : )
September 15th, 2008 at 7:35 am
That is hilarious…and I thought it was just a shampoo ingredient all this time! And glad to know the brand of shampoo that it is in…that was buggin me:P
September 15th, 2008 at 9:01 am
I remember that too! I always wondered why they would put that on a shampoo bottle. NOBODY knows what it is (let alone how to pronounce it), or what it does, so why waste the ink? I must have missed the news bulletin. My conclusion: it sounds impressive.
September 15th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Heck, 80% of the stuff they put on our food labels we can’t pronounce either, but that doesn’t stop us from eating it. That’s probably just a waste of ink too