Awesome T-Shirt

A word that has survived a lot of sarcasm.

AWESOME was worn down for years by people using it about sandwiches. It has recovered. Said plainly and without irony, it still means what it originally meant: that something stopped you for a second.

Why “Awesome”? Awe is the root, and awe is not a small feeling. The word covers everything from a canyon to a person who quietly did something extraordinary.