It's kind of a hobby of mine, plucking words up out of context and into the open air and listening to them, as they really are. The exercise is almost always amusing, but can be a little disconcerting. Sometimes it's hard to put the word back where it belongs, and I'll go for a while suppressing a chuckle every time I hear it.
Take any word for anything you can think of. Screen, maybe, since you're looking at one.
Now pluck it out. Make the sound out loud. "Screen" Now look away towards a blank wall, or the sky, anything simple and unadorned, and think about the sound you just uttered. Maybe say it a few times more, sounding it out. The hard part is the "plucking it out" part, honestly that phrase doesn't even get it exactly. That's just how I do it. I take off the imposed facade of sense from one of the silly sounds I make every day, plucking it out of the sentence or paragraph it had occupied and, if you will, setting it free. I think about it as a wave moving through the air, and I try to hear it as a passing squirrel hears it.
Go ahead, try it.....
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Crazy?
Now try the same thing with the word "word".
That's crazy.