Day: February 4, 2016

Mispronouncing words

 

A friend of mine was saying she thought  when younger that AWRY was pronouned AWE RY.

Anither one thought MISLED was MISSLED

And it’s obvious that this comes from our ignoramce of the derivation of words [not to mention the fact that they had nor heard their parents or siblings use these words]

We know a-  is a common  prefix in words like AMORAL,

And mis is also one as in MISALLIANCE MISSPENT

More tomorrow

I accuse

Ab

More about accismus:the limericks

http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/accismusterm.htm

 

What do these strange, new words mean?

And why have they evaded  being seen?

Accismus is a lie

Give it a try

I desire no reward but esteem

 

I don’t know what to think of my   find

It’s a grief to us fragile of mind

We think we know all

Then we suffer our fall.

Still it’s good to be bad from behind.

 

I thought I could die now in peace

As on words I’d  enjoyed  a great feast

But like the end of line

Is so hard to define

Infinity seems   so near when it’s least.

 

In between any two words you choose

Another word can  be found and bemuse.

Transcendent their state

They may   yet irritate

But without a little space they confuse.

 

Some folk declare they need space

Avoid saying they hate their love’s face

But  words have no choice

As they speak with our voice

And when used well they  queerly debase.

 

 

 

 

Accismus

 

 

This is new to me

http://wordsmith.org/words/accismus.html

 

Accismus

Encylopaedia Britannica

Accismus, a form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to or pretends to refuse something he or she desires. The fox’s dismissal of the grapes in Aesop’s fable of the fox and the grapes is an example of accismus. A classic example is that of Caesar’s initial refusal to accept the crown, a circumstance reported by one of the conspirators in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The word is from the Greek  akkismós, “prudery,” and is a derivative of akkízesthai, “to feign ignorance P

 

Duress,the limericks

I wanted to feel his caress

Until his anger made me feel distressed

Pain knocks me down

When I see his  grey frown

Why it’s not all that far from duress.

 

Condoms are called Durex here

And since AIDS they’re on the counter quite near

So avoid duress

After caress

A condom can save you from fear

 

 

 

 

Duress from dictionary.com

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duress

[doo–res, dyoo-, doo r-is, dyoo r-]
Spell Syllables
noun
1.

compulsion by threat or force; coercion;constraint.
2.

Law. such constraint or coercion as will rendervoid a contract or other legal act entered orperformed under its influence.
3.

forcible restraint, especially imprisonment.
Origin of duressExpand
Middle English
Middle French
Latin
1275-1325

1275-1325; Middle English duresse < Middle Frenchduresse, -esce, -ece < Latin dūritia hardness,harshness, oppression, equivalent to dūr (us) hard + -itia -ice

SynonymsExpand
1. intimidation, pressure, bullying, browbeating