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...

Big Discount

The long and short of it:

I got 4 emails this morning offering me big discounts on Viaga and Vigara!

Goody! Goody!

I also have other interesting offers to lengthen body parts...and meet beautiful women...

And the spammers got my password and sent out offers like this....see musinglog for 2 articles on hijacked hotmail. It only happens on hotmail and they don't recognize it as a problem. They also don't allow questions about how this happens.

Has it happened to anyone not on hotmail? Please comment below. Thank you.

Irrespective of the dictionary

I think I have discovered why people persist in using the word, irregardless, which is not actually a word. it is a word with an extra "ir" in front. For emphasis, I guess.

I heard this word today listening to a podcast, "irrespective."

Irrespective is a good synonym for regardless. Eureka! maybe that's what happened: a little confusion between a word and a non-word which should or could have the same meaning.

Also, since inflammable and flammable mean the same thing, regardless and irregardless could mean the same. That is, if there was such a word.

Regardless of what it says in the dictionary, some people persist in using the misnomer, "irregardless."

Coming attractions: Irreverant. Relinquish.

Imminent

Imminent means just about to happen, impending. It's an adjective, from Latin.

Emanent means prominant, outstanding. adjective, Latin, also.

Preemanent means emanant or superior. Just a bit better than emanent. Imminent and emanent are homonyms. I've got to check the spelling. It doesn't look right!

Stay tuned, more exciting emanent words and terms are imminent.

Daunting

The philolog's choice this month is the word, daunt in its various forms.

This word has come to us through Middle English and old French from Latin. I chose this word because it is monosyllablic and uncommon.

Daunt - v. to lessen the courage of. Synonyms: intimidate, discourage, dishearten, dismay.

Dauntless-adj. bold, fearless, undaunted, daring, indomitable, brave, courageous

Example: Taking exams can be daunting!