A man is cursed so that every year he can utter only a single word.
If he stays silent for a year, the next year he can say two, three the year after that, and so on.
One day, he meets a woman and wants to propose, but he doesn’t have enough words saved.
After four years, he finally is able to say, ‘Will you marry me?’
She smiles and replies, ‘Come again?’