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Sagacity, by Roslyn Taylor:
Despair to my mother was I in my youth,
For I was considered inept and uncouth;
Unkempt and unruly
Was infant Yours Truly.

Throughout tempestuous puberty
She battled my uncoutherty,
And with a stern unfoolishness
Coped with my unrulishness.

My mother (flushed with her success)
Then tackled my unkemptliness
And with relentless recitude
Conquered my ineptitude.

How well my mother schooled me,
How well my mother fooled me,
At last I've discovered the terrible truth -
It's no fun being ept, kempt, ruly or couth.

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THE MORAL: Ept, kempt, ruly and couth are better know in their negative forms. Can we eptly find more such words?

is that even a word? would the positive be nards?

sorry, pay no attention to the chick behind the curtain.

Can you say something chalantly?

Are you pervious if you give in?

Ruth, as in ruthless.

arnie, the ladies obviously find themselves completely vinceable to your charms.

Sagacity: Is that a droopy derriere?

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arnie, the ladies obviously find themselves completely vinceable to your charms.

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Are there any obstacles not surmountable? Any miss-terious situtatons that are not penetrable to you, any situations not scrutable?

This week's theme prompted me to dig a bit.

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I know a little man both ept and ert.
An intro-? extro-? No, he's just a vert.
Sheveled and couth and kempt, pecunious, ane,
His image trudes upon the ceptive brain.

When life turns sipid and the mind is traught,
The spirit soars as I would sist it ought.
Chalantly then, like any gainly goof,
My digent self is sertive, choate, loof.

Gloss, by David McCord
The Oxford Book of American Light Verse

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reviving a thread...

You hear the word evolve frequently...devolve not so much.

I just read it today in this sentence:

"When campaigns devolve into name-calling, it often is difficult..."

I rather like it!

So would it be prevolve if you jumped the gun on advancement?

Whenever anyone calls me ruthless, I generally respond with "Yes, I am entirely void of ruth."

Reviving a thread
Hey, Hic, where have you been?

Today's word of day from WWFTD is sheveled. I searched for it here and found this very nice poem, posted by Hic. I am going to send it to Tsuwm:

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I know a little man both ept and ert.
An intro-? extro-? No, he's just a vert.
Sheveled and couth and kempt, pecunious, ane,
His image trudes upon the ceptive brain.

When life turns sipid and the mind is traught,
The spirit soars as I would sist it ought.
Chalantly then, like any gainly goof,
My digent self is sertive, choate, loof.

Gloss, by David McCord
The Oxford Book of American Light Verse

Here is another rather fun one that I found:

DISCOMPREHENSION
By Dwight Chapman

The negatives of English words
Conspire to baffle one:
Too few turn out predictably
Too many turn out un-.

Of prefixes they take their choice
Unfettered and at will,
And some results are logical
But most are strangely il-.

The canny etymologists
Are seldom led astray,
To them each case looks typical
To me each case looks a-.

What sliver of orthography
Is left for us to grab
When nowhere is normality
And everywhere is ab-?