The Ragtag Daily Prompt this morning is MIGHTY
Sad to say, I feel anything but mighty today. For the past while I’ve felt more like I’m falling apart, with a couple medical issues taking front+centre stage in my thoughts. On Wednesday I had a couple of medical appointments: a blood-flow-to-the-heart test to figure out why I’m so short of breath these days; the other about a hernia I’ve developed. The Dr tells me this calls for me a surgery to repair that issue. And a wait of several months until that can be done.
Fandango’s One-Word Challenge this morning is INTANGIBLE. For some reason this morning I’m feeling an intangible blue fog. Lots to do but don’t feel like doing anything kind of cloud. Maybe I need a long walk. For most of the past week we’ve been afflicted with a howling, chilling wind — even the cats haven’t wanted to set foot outside. No rain or snow, so yesterday the dust was blowing. Thankfully today’s calm and I should take advantage of that.
Now back to the title of this blog post. “Might he” and mighty. This morning I read a thread on GoodReads where a reader was reviewing the query letter of a wannabe author. Reviewer comments on the plot where the “pro-tag” (supposed to be protag, short for protagonist) “looses it” (loses it) when his parents disappear. And she reminds the writer that for his query letter, he must present his summary in “present tenths.” (present tense)
I had to laugh! I won’t be hiring this reviewer to beta read my book. 🙂
Merriam-Webster has been doing a series about this sort of mix-up. They’re calling words and phrases like this EGGCORN words. Explaining that “egg horn” was once the mixed-up version of ACORN. They also use the example of “to all intensive purposes” — which should be all intents and purposes. “All over sudden” instead of all of a sudden. Makes me think of my cousin, who was wont to say, “the whole toot’n taboodle” instead of the whole kit and caboodle. What eggcorn words have you heard lately?
Where would we be without our daily chuckles?
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You know, I hear “eggcorn” words all the time, but my mind a complete blank. Can’t think of a thing 🙂
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Fandango has a nice list in the link below.
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You might enjoy this post:
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/02/08/youre-saying-it-wrong/
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I did enjoy your list. If I think of any more I’ll leave a comment there. 🙂
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Good. Thanks.
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I hope you get that walk and that it lifts your spirits. Thinking of you as you deal with medical issues.
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Thank you. there’s always a certain distraction –or whatever ?– about waiting for test results. You hope it’s nothing, but you know it’s something, so what is it? 🙂
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I have a friend who says nip it in the butt, instead of nip it in the bud. She also says she’s parged instead of parched. Of course I don’t correct her, and when she uses apostrophes in writing her plurals, I have to bite my tongue to keep from commenting.
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I guess the issue is, if we’re wrong about something, do we want to know it — or have our friends all pretend we’re right and leave us go on making those same mistakes. There’s definitely a time to say something and a time to keep quiet.
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Take that walk, but take it slow until you know more…
As for eggcorn words… lawzy there are so many out there. Supposivly comes to mind… A moo point, is another. I think we could go on and on with these!
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Oh, those are good ones! Thanks for your comment.
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😊 I’ll be thinking up more now!
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