Looking around through YouTube, I found this video done by an 8th grade class illustrating commonly misused words. Mostly these are misspellings, but I thought it was cute and fit right in with my weekly Word Wednesday's misused words theme. This might be a great video to show your kidlings.
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Are you an emotional female droning on to your doctor year after year about "little things" like fibromyalgia, thyroid issues, insomnia, menopause, or hypoglycemia? And have you encountered any of the following Dr. Talk? * All the tests came back negative. (Translation: I don't know what else to do for you so you'll just have to live with it.) * Maybe you should take a few days off work. (Translation: I don't think there's anything wrong with you, but you might feel better if you go shopping and buy a new hat.) * Are you worried or stressed about something...how's your family life? (Translation: Since the tests are all negative, you must be upset about something in your life. Depressed...
According to Merriam Webster:
irony, noun
Definition of IRONY
1: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning —called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning"
According to Friday Funnies:
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The last several weeks, I've been talking about some words that are intentionally misused, words used to decieve. This week, I'd like to focus on some of the most commonly (and unintentionally) misused words. Some people seem to want to add to a word: Toward has no s at the end, though it must seem incomplete to some because you often see it used like this, "I went towards the gate." Anyway also has no ending s. It is incorrect to say that you don't like purple, though you'd take a purple car anyways. Some want to delete part of a word: You aren't supposed to omit the d. You weren't suppose to. The same goes for the phrase used...
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