During the 6:00 pm newscast Monday, we aired the obligatory interview of our Governor at Kennedy Space Center after the successful launch of Shuttle Discovery.  But something Charlie Crist said made my head tilt sideways like  Lassie hearing Timmy cry from the bottom of a well.  Here's the verbatim:

"It's fantastic. I mean the importance of this program to the Sunshine State is... ginormous! There's no way to really estimate how important it is."

Did the Governor of the nation's 4th largest state say, "ginormous"? Did he eat his lunch with a spork? Did he mean to say "hugondous"?  I can only guesstimate.  To my ear, the intertwingling of "gigantic" and "enormous" has the ring of adolescence, though I may be misunderestimating Charlie.  A quick google search reveals that "ginormous" is not only recognized by Merriam Webster Dictionary it has a usage history dating back to 1948.

So even if "ginormous" doesn't sound gubernatorial (or vice presidential for that matter) that doesn't mean the Space Shuttle program isn't Floridarific!