Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Wordle woes

 I enjoy playing the word game Wordle


    But  sometimes I get confounded, again, by the English language.

    Take a word like brown.  Ends with o.w.n.  That spells own.  As in, I own it.

    But brown does not have own in it!  It has a different sound.

    Blown.  Flown. Grown. Brown?  Clown??

    Same pattern, different sounds.

    Do I have a wound on my arm, or a wound?    Are you a present or are you just present?  And did you present your present?

    Confusing.

    No wonder people have trouble learning the language.

    I have noted this before.  In Dickens' Christmas Carole he writes he dont' and she don't.  When did that become improper grammar and we were taught to say he doesn't/she doesn't?  Who decided that?

    I doesn't know.

    I guess it isn't r really a problem with Wordle.  Although sometimes I get really stumped and have to think!  I am not good at thinking!  It makes my head hurt!

    A final thought/question for the night.  In our kitchen we have several canned lights.  We have been in the house almost 14 years.

    One of the lights burned out.

    I don't think the lights in the cans are LED, but I am not sure.

    What I do know is when I work up the gumption to replace the bulb, the new bulb will be a different color than the rest.

    That will drive me crazy.

    I don't want to replace all of them, because only 1 doesn't work.  Yeet I don't like having 1 dead bulb in the ceiling. 

    I will spend days agonizing over this.

    But I won't replace the burned out bulb until I need to.

    Maybe never?

Peace and Love

    Especially Peace


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