Self Empowerment

The philolog's choice this month is the word,

empowerment.

Empower, a verb has 2 meanings: 1. to authorize, give power to; 2. to permit or allow.

This reminds me of enrichment, another powerful word.

Enrich, a verb, means to improve or make wealthy.

Example: I like to empower my clients to enrich themselves.

The Self Empowerment Class will take place next week, May 17, at 6:30PM at Unity Church of Palm Harbor. See Musinglog for details.

Thank you.

My Cat's Philosophy

My cat is a philosopher. He is as terse as he is wise.

Every morning he says to me, "menow."

That's all he ever says.

Me Now.

He has summed up his philosophy is just two words.

Uneek Spelling

OK,

I've been thinking about this for awhile. Don't you just hate that when orthography keeps you up at night?

Unique. I think this spelling is very misleading. I think it would be much more forthright to spell it u-n-e-e-k.

Where did Q come from? It's very unusual in English, very strange... stranger... alien, even!

And when we pair it with U, which we usually do it sounds like "kw" as in Queen. Very queer, indeed.

So there is just no reason to put the QUE on the end of that word. Let's just go with uneek. That's unambiguous. I can't think of any other way to pronounce it.

All in favor say, Aye. Now there's another word we need to re-spell...