IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.
ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME
‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’
THANK YOU
BREATHE – THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE
BREATH – THE NOUN FORM
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE
WANDER – TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY
WONDER – TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)
DEFIANT – RESISTANT DEFINITE – CERTAIN
WANTON – DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)
WONTON – IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING
BAWL- TO SOB/CRY
BALL- A FUCKING BALL
YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT
AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.
THANK YOU.
*slams reblog*
IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.
IT’S NOT ‘COULD OF’, THAT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER. IT’S ‘COULD HAVE’. SAME APPLIES TO ‘SHOULD HAVE’.
And this is why my students look at me as though I’m the devil when I try to tell them that no i’m not lying this really is a thing
EAGER MEANS YOU ARE EXCITEDLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SOMETHING ANXIOUS MEANS NERVOUS ABOUT THE UPCOMING THING IF YOURE ANXIOUS FOR VACATION SOMETHING IS WRONG
TO FLAUNT IS TO SHOW OFF. TO FLOUT IS TO DEFY (OFTEN IN A DRAMATIC, SPECTACULAR FASHION, WHICH MAY BE WHY PEOPLE GET CONFUSED).
YOU REIGN OVER SOMETHING, EXERTING POWER AND AUTHORITY AS A KING OR QUEEN WOULD. YOU REIN IN SOMETHING, EXERTING RESTRAINT OVER IT. IT’S A METAPHOR RELATING TO RIDING HORSES.
WHEN ONE IS NONPLUSSED, THEY ARE DISTURBED, DISMAYED OR SURPRISED. IF SOMEONE SHOWS NO REACTION, YOU MIGHT BE LOOKING FOR A WORD LIKE UNFAZED.
QUE IS SPANISH FOR ‘WHAT’ QUEUE MEANS A LINE OF PEOPLE, OR A BRAID OR PONYTAIL. CUE IS THE WORD, BORROWED FROM THEATER, SIGNIFYING ‘AT THIS POINT AN EVENT HAPPENS.’
I don’t know why we’re doing this in all caps, but far be it from me to flout tradition.
