I forgot!
Have you ever fogotten so much it really messes with your life?
i’m tellin’ ya. Proofing work is finally phasing out so I can concentrate on my WIP now. Yay! But I gotta remember what I had planned! ack.
This forgetfulness has even infiltrated my spelling while typing.
Have you forgotten how to spell a very common word?
So it’s December.
I don’t have any events this month other than foster dog events :). My focus this month is working on my WIP. I’m sooo close but I won’t finish the first draft before the end of the eyar, unless I cheat and do a lot of narration and some scenes I’ve done that with, but I have some subplots that need to come in as well.
It’ll be a sloppy first draft, that’s how they usually are, but that’s OK! I’ll let you know how I’m coming along.
Catch me on social media to find out more day-to-day updates, esp Facebook @alleypat.
Have you ever suddenly forgotten how to spell a word?
So I’m working on the last third of my WIP and I’m typing along, all going great, and I type the word “graffiti” except it came out “graphitti” and I knew it was wrong when I typed it but suddenly, I could not spell it. Just BAM! I’d lost the mental faculty to spell that one word.
I can spell Nefertiti just fine, thank you. And Nefarious, and Nefertem, and negation, and so on.
Try looking up “graphitti” in Webster’s. Phew. Nope. It gives me “graphite.” LOL. I can spell “graphite” just fine, thank you again.
Well, so I skipped the word and kept writing. One paragraph later, the correct spelling popped into my head in orange glowing neon letters. Talk about doing a Homer Simpson “DOH!”
Graffiti is plural of graffito. I didn’t know that! Originates around 1859 to 1855 in Italy. Graffito is incised inscription or design, derivative -ito-ite of “graffiare” to scratch, perhaps influenced by presumed Latin “graphīre” to write; both probably derivative of Latin “graphium” stylus.
Most people don’t use “graffito.” “Graffiti” is both singular and plural in most situations. The singular graffito is found mostly in archaeological and other technical writing.
A few months ago, that happened with the word “with.” Stupid little four letter word, isn’t it? — w i t h — It’s almost “witch” which I remembered how to spell just fine. So, naturally, I kept writing and the word came to me by the end of the sentence.
After I typed it in, it still looked a bit odd, so I checked with Mr. Webster and yes, it was correct. I also found out “with” is an alternate form of “withe” which can mean several things….
1. a tough, flexible twig of willow, osier, etc., used for binding things; withy.
2. (nautical) an iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.
3. (architecture) a partition between flues in a chimney.
And when I checked “withy,” it has “withier” and “withiest” as adjective forms. The meanings are tough and flexible, wiry and wiry and agile. I wonder if my protagonist could have a withy body? Hmm…
And plural it could be “withies.” But then we get back to the “withy” definition.
Middle English withye willow branch from Old English wīthig willow, in case you were wondering. The given sentence examples make no sense, except maybe the one on the “Salix alba (white willow, withe, withy) contains salicin, which is converted to salicylic acid in the body.”
I can spell salicylic acid just fine, thank youl 🙂