Ever played a word in Scrabble that you didn’t know the meaning of? They acknowledged it as a word but you hadn’t the foggiest? This happened to me a short while ago. The word was siriasis and extra points to you if you know what it means. Quadruple points if you can write a poem making use of it within the next 14 minutes. Here is my 14 minute poem:
Rainy Day Reminder
You rue those rainy nights and days
when everything is in a haze
and you cannot go out the door
without whiffing petrichor.
Your hair is soggy, face too ruddy,
raincoat sodden, rain boots muddy.
And suffering from all this damping,
girls are in no mood for vamping.
It’s hard to flirt, I must confess,
when one is such a dripping mess.
But consider now the opposite.
When all day in the sun you sit,
you’ll never find men making passes
at girls who suffer siriasis!
(To save you the bother of your looking it up, siriasis means sunstroke, but it was Bushboy who gave me a hint that led me to investigate the very interesting Australian origins of the word petrichor.)
No ideas what it means. Even google didn’t know 😂
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Sadje, I put the definition at the end.. It means sunstroke.
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Okay. I’m always in a hurry so didn’t see that bit. Thanks 😊
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My problem was knowing a word but not knowing how to spell it.
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We all have that problem now and then. In my 7 years of blogging, I’ve found three words I’ve been misspelling and mispronouncing my whole life.
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Something I have that problem in one day. My biggest problem has been hitting the wrong key, and then spell check changes the word to something else; then sometime I get in trouble over it, because if I do not see spell check making a noise, I just ignore what I have done. Often I find bad errors after I have hit send, or even the next day.
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Hint: Read what you write before hitting “send.”
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Love the twisted endings!
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Yes, changing the letters around till something fits, in desperation, yes.
Sent from my iPad
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Does this mean you are writing a poem?
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Idk anymore, WP is giving me fits🙄
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It’s been giving me problems as well.
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Aha.. just figured out that you were talking about Scrabble. Duh..Sorry.
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😃
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“petrichor” is such a cool word and it’s meaning is even more delightful. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it used in anything other than an article on unusual words. I was delighted to see it!
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It is a favorite word of both Forgottenman’s and mine.. both of us kept forgetting it until it appeared either as a prompt word or some other way..When I learned this new word I quipped that it was the opposite of petrichor..and that’s what prompted the poem. I wanted to write a poem that made use of them both. One sun, one rain, one sense of smell the other sense of touch. Ow.
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Petrichor is an Australian coined word. Thanks for giving the meaning of sisiasis 😀
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Really? Interesting. Is there a story involved?
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Yes there is
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Are we going to have to pull it out of you?
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Not at home so too hard to do it for you now. You can have a quick search
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Okay, I did the work. Thanks for leading me to it, Bushboy. Gave you credit on m’ blog.
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😀
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Hahahaha Good one
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