What is Rancour?

In England they put U’s in strange places. According to the British and my motherfucking computer (Fuck you Apple), there are u’s in honour, favourite, and colour. Its accepted that these are geographically specific spellings of the same word, but I propose we do away with this silly ambiguity in the year 2016, and break words from their u countourparts. Aha! 

Colour has been my longstanding example, rancour is my new one — Ill briefly discuss colour first. To color is to color, how one does in a coloring book (or a good rap album). Colour ought to be used in situations where one tries to describe the adoption of a tone during an event — i.e. Rob Stark’s unexpected death coloured the rest of the television series. Lets do it! We have a homonym and we have an extra duplicate spelling around, and something about the “u” adds, in my opinion, a distinguished flair, fitting for the secondary use of the word. 

So Rancour. Rancour is actually a word. It means bitterness. It used to mean bitterness. Please consider this a declaration of intent as well as a vote of no confidence in the word rancour!!!! I have made an executive decision and BANISH that word, never to return, and, in its place, torn asunder in creative destruction, form this new word with a new definition — rancour!

To know this word, the namesake for this blog, you must know its history. The Rancor is its inspiration; this new definition is its progeny. The Rancor is a race of large, fleshy, golem-type creatures from the Star Wars universe. The race of 20-ish foot tall behemoths was made famous in Episode VI, when Luke fought a Rancor which had been tortured, culled, and trained for viciousness by Jabba the Hut. The creature Rancor represents what the word ‘rancor’ defines: 

"Bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice... Also, especially British, rancour."

It is the very same word we’ve described above! By Mark, Anthony, and the third! We have a homonym and a duplicate spelling!!! 

Rancour now means a rare refinement or understanding within situations appearing outwardly like chaos — Of course there exists no other word suiting this definition. It is a man and woman with rancour who first peg a new art as prophetic; a writer, a new word! Luke Skywalker displays his own rancour many times, like in battle against the Rancor or before he jumps into the Sarlaac pit, prepared to defeat his opponents against all odds.