Hearing a word the first time in your life.

[RJT]

Have you ever noticed that when you hear/learn a word for the first time, it seems that you then hear it often? Do you think you never actually heard the word before or is it that you never noticed it when you did and now something clicked, so hearing it again is really not coincidence?

This has happened to me many times and it just happened Monday/today. I was talking with some friends on Monday and one guy said something. I had never heard the word before, but got the gist of it in context. I was just reading one of the treads here on 2+2 and saw the same word written. (I was glad to have stumbled upon it, because I couldn’t remember what the word was after our dinner - had a few drinks.)