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!.

Juvenile adjectives

I was trying unsuccessfully to think of adjectives that start with the letter J.

Now I can name some:
Jade, jazzy, jumpy, junky, jerky, jilted, jiggling, or would it be jiggly?  and juvenile.

Do words that start with G, but sound like J count?
Germy, ginfilled, German, germaine, generous...

Cantankerous Cacophony

I'm feeling cantankerous today. What cacophony! I's a word which is not too common, but so relevant.

Cantankerous means cranky, irritable, irascible. It is from Latin, I predict. Wait, the origin of this word is much more interesting than I thot. It comes from some alteration or mispronunciation of a Middle English word for troublemaker, which probably came from a French word for contrarian. The opposite of cantankerous is easy-going.

Cacophony means harsh disharmonious (unharmonious?) noise, as opposed to a symphony which is harmonious music. It comes from Greek, caco means bad and phone means noise.

May all you encounters today be harmonious and non-cantankerous!

crazy words

Crazy is kindof a crazy word. Only 2 syllables short. It contains the letter Z, which is under-utilized in our language. And it contains Y used as a vowel. Also quite unusual.

Crazy means insane, eccentric, or mad.

It can also be used as an intensifier as in She's crazy mean.

It can be used as a compliment, too. That's crazy cool!

Just a few of my crazy thoughts. I'm done now.