1927 - Terminological Inexactutudes

 

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MLMM Monday Wordle #496
presents the following words for us to work with:

tome, words, come, think, read, change, because, tired, process, original, safe, gamble

Terminological Inexactitudes.

Tome?  Tome?  Really?

“Oh, I say!  This is a magnificent tome.

You really should immerse yourself in it”.

What a lot of pretentious twaddle.

Immerse myself? 

Come children, it’s bath tome!

What is wrong with ‘book’?  

And, come to think of it, is it read?

Or, for a change, does one peruse?

And does this tome contain words?

Or is it full of vernacularisms?

I need to know because I am tired

Of having to process everything 

Into some pompous folderol.

The original, common, words are clear,

Unambiguously safe and certain.

Why gamble on lexical ostentation?

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