Stream of Consciousness Saturday – Prompt – Look Up a Word

~ John W. Howell

 

It is Stream of Consciousness Saturday time again. Linda Hill just walked in with a plain-looking envelope. My guess is she has this week’s prompt and doesn’t want the neighbors to know what’s in it.

“Hi, Linda.”

“John.”

“This week’s prompt?”

“Um, I guess it could be a hot pastrami sandwich, but you have guessed right.”

“I’m ready.”

“Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “a word you have to look up.” We all have words we can never spell. Use one of yours in your post and let that word drive your stream of consciousness where ever it goes. Have fun!”

Gee, thanks, Linda. Well, there you have it. If you would like to have fun, go to Linda’s blog and read how easy it is. Here is the link. https://lindaghill.com/2020/10/16/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-oct-17-2020/

Embarrassment by John W. Howell © 2020

“What are you doing with that dictionary?”

“Looking up a word.”

“What word?”

“Embarrassment.”

“Easy word. It means a feeling of self-consciousness or shame.”

“I know what it means. It’s just I always misspell it.”

“Who cares?”

“I care. Besides, it is this week’s prompt.”

“Of course, it is.”

“I always forget that there are two Rs and two Ss in the word.”

“That can be embarrassing.”

“Very funny.”

“Doesn’t spell check catch that for you?”

“Not when I’m on Twitter.”

“Which raises the question of why you would be using embarrassment on Twitter?”

“You know there are a lot of dopes on Twitter.”

“Well yeah.”

“I like to point out when they post something stupid.”

“And you need to look up the word, so you don’t appear to be like them?”

“Exactly.”

“For some reason, I have this vision of you being one of them.”

“That’s cold.”

“If you have to look up the spelling of an insult, doesn’t that mean you and the idiot you want to insult are on the same level?”

“Maybe I should lay off Twitter for a while.”

“Be one less dope there.”

“Good point.”

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I have been working in business for over forty years and now have the time to work in special areas of interest. My passion has always been to create compelling stories of fiction. I have authored six novels and am working on my Seventh. The first novel is still in manuscript form and being utilized as a door stop in the laundry room. The second is a contemporary fiction novel of 89,000 words and is complete and I am currently seeking a publisher. I also write poetry but have not had the guts to share any with anyone. The one time I read a piece to a person their only comment was, “it doesn’t rhyme.” I will continue to write and hopefully my blog, Fiction Favorites at www.johnwhowell.com will provide some entertainment and an interesting thought or two. I live in the Austin area with my wife Molly and an assortment of loving pets.

69 thoughts on “Stream of Consciousness Saturday – Prompt – Look Up a Word”

  4. Nothing deflates an insult like a typo. Then again, there are a lot of dopes on Twitter.

    You’re back in my inbox this morning, John. Things are looking up. I hope you have a great weekend.

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        2. None. I was chatting with HE, and he said “it looks fine.” Then he said, “blah blah looks like it was just sent.” I received that notification a minute later and all was well.

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  13. Thanks for the warning about twitter. I knew there was a reason I had been avoiding it. FB is more than I can stand just about any day. As for the ‘any word you have to look up’ my first answer is the billboard theory. Second answer is better than half the words I want to write. Spelling rules are just a pretense to a rationalization. Only changed if ever a butterfly flutters by or if there is a ripple in a pond. Squirrel ! “Redder” needs two ‘D’s. However “however” and “newer” only require one “W” one because there are two ‘V’s in “W”. At which point it is time to bring out the bourbon for further philosophical discussion. So it is not all bad.

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  19. I have zero idea what I’m doing on Twitter. Fun to look around but I don’t say much. And yes definitely some dopes out there. Not you though. You’re a ray of sunshine with positive quotes 🙂

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  23. Someone was raging at a writer with an “i” at the start of each sentence. She was attempting to point out the flaws in the author’s structure, but her remarks were mostly unreadable. 😬

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  24. I ALWAYS misspell embarrassment… and a few others – especially the ones that are similar in French and English… like adresse in French but address in English… or correspondence in English and correspondance in the French – both look right because both are… just not everywhere. Sigh.
    And there are scads of eejits on Twitter. I especially love those who criticise (or criticize) others but make grammatical errors…. Bravo, loser… bravo. 😉

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