There are many words I have to look up every time I use them. It makes me angry. I'm an articulate burro, well-read and familiar with more than one of the languages of you two-leggeds. So why do these simple words hang me up?
"Embarrass" is one. (Just looked it up yet again.) One r or two? I can never remember.
"Address" is another. "Dang, I looked that up three hours ago. How many d's was it?"
Don't even ask me about the city I prefer to refer to as Cincy. Double-n single-t, single-n double-t, double-n double-t? Oh, I give up.
This is the kind of thing that makes me stomp and snort. (What, you thought it was just a lack of hay?)
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ReplyDeleteThere are many words I have to look up every time I use them. It makes me angry. I'm an articulate burro, well-read and familiar with more than one of the languages of you two-leggeds. So why do these simple words hang me up?
ReplyDelete"Embarrass" is one. (Just looked it up yet again.) One r or two? I can never remember.
"Address" is another. "Dang, I looked that up three hours ago. How many d's was it?"
Don't even ask me about the city I prefer to refer to as Cincy. Double-n single-t, single-n double-t, double-n double-t? Oh, I give up.
This is the kind of thing that makes me stomp and snort. (What, you thought it was just a lack of hay?)
Hee haw! Keep improving!
Some of the hardest words are the most practical, like "Acetylcholinestrase"
ReplyDelete(A sort of astroturf) and "Victor Amadeus II" (A Savoy.)