The prompt words I use each day are taken from five different blogs. To see the sites, click on each prompt word, which is linked to the blog that suggested it. Words for the day are: brindle, infatuated, obelus, summit. An obelus is a division sign, by the way. I didn’t know that, either, a fact that gave birth to the below poem:
Misnomers
An obelus should be a globe, a bubble or a ball.
rounded and continuous, uniting one and all,
not something that divides us and splits us into parts.
It’s clear the one who coined the word is lacking in their smarts.
Infatuated should mean thin and brindle should mean flinch.
Summit should mean more or less. I will not yield an inch.
Words should have meanings like their sounds lest ignorant souls abuse them.
Until they do, bet on the fact that I will never use them!!!
Image by Simone Secci on Unsplash.
Haha! I like your alternate meaning.
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