Are you a Knave?

There aren't many words in English which start with "KN." I've been wondering where the K comes from in Knave, Knight, Knack, Knicknack, Knee, and Knife. They seem superflous somhow, but then again, without the K, they look very strange: nave, nack, nee, nife, and night.
Knight has a lot of silent letters. It should really be spelled "nite."

Browsing thru these words I see that they come from Old High German.

Knave means a male servant, or a tricky deceitful person. I love the synonyms: rapscallion and scoundrel!

Call me naive, but at least I'm not a knave!

Hearty Laughter

Is is hearty or hardy? I know they are both adjectives. The are synonyms as well as homonyms. They both mean robust.

So when I say hardy belly laughter is an aerobic exercise, should I say Hearty instead?

I guess I could use either one since they are synonymous, yet I will choose Hearty, because hearty laughter is good for the heart. Hearty has a few other meanings, too, which make it a bit more complex, because it also means exuberant.

I wish you a Happy Father's Day and a hardy heart!

Succumb and Success

Succumb is an interesting word. I would have to guess it comes from Latin. It means to yield or to give in to overwhelming desire. I like the way it shares the first 4 letters with the word success.

I'm going to write something about how to succumb to success on Musinglog.blogspot.com.

C U there!

Veer right

I'm not sure, but I think my GPS says "veer" right or left sometimes, not just "turn." Veer is a strange little monosyllablic word. I wonder where it came from?

The web tells me that it means turn suddenly, change direction, swerve, and it comes from Old French!

I also see turn clockwise, as a definition, but my GPS said veer left, when it wanted me to make a U-Turn on US 19. That was definitely a counter-clockwise turn.

I learned something today, I thought it meant a slight turn, not a sharp turn!

Scoff

I scoff at fear!

Scoff is a weird, harsh little word. It almost sounds like a cough, which should be spelled coff.

More about spelling later!

Maximal Exposure

Wow, how nice to know where my readers are! Blogger has a new dashboard and I love it!

Thank you for reading! Thank you for following me. You are the BEST!

I like this word: maxim. It is from Latin and related to maximal and maximum.

A maxim is a brief statement of truth. Here is a great synonym from the
greek language: aphorism.

Maximal: adjective, the highest.

Maximum: noun, the largest amount.

Remuneration

Remuneration is a very good word to ruminate about.

Remuneration means payment. but it has that re- in front so it repeats. "Muni" means money or government. Interesting spelling. A little rearrangement brings us to renumeration. Does this mean renumbering? maybe reprioritizing? It's not in my spell checker. It's not in my dictionary, however, renumber is, as well as reorder.

Recompense is a synonym for remunerate.

Reinforce means to strengthen or increase.

Ruminate means to chew on mentally. It's synonymous with meditate. Well, not exactly. Depends on what kind of meditation you prefer.

Remuneration reinforces itself. Realize that remuneration rebounds and returns, so remuneration is like karma: what goes around comes around!.