Spelling

With school starting soon, I thought why not revisit that age old question that all school children are going to ask eventually, “Like Mom, how do you like spell discombobulate?”

Mom yells back, “How should I know, get your dictionary and look it up.” Student sighs, “Like if I knew how to spell it like I could look it up in the dictionary.”

Right now I have at least five dictionaries and they are useless unless I know how to spell the word in the first place and while in search of the word I get lost in reading other words and meanings.
Fifteen or 20 minutes goes by before I realize I am reading the dictionary and have never found my word yet. Someone once said that a synonym is a word you use instead of the one you wanted to use, because you can’t spell that one.

I turned to the internet and just decided to give it a shot and typed in the search block “dictionary of difficult words.” Eureka! You will never accuse me of having a macraencephalic, meaning “one with a large brain pan.”

I found that word right off the bat. I lean more to the simplest of words, scripturient, or one who has a “violent desire to write.” Hold back that violent Bic, oh, scripturient! The wise saying “use a word five times and it is yours for life.” Well, maybe this saying should not apply to all words.

Yes, back to discombobulate, this word best describes our woes with the dictionary. To be discombobulated is to be “confused, upset and frustrated.”

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