April 3, 2018

mangled pronuncifications – NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 3

The Scream by Edvard Munch

mangled pronuncifications

it can be amusing or confusing to hear a word
that’s not the word you think you heard…

When a tree boughs, does that mean it’s leaning?
And why do some tree bows hang low?
Are you moot if your oral preception is effected?
Should a defendant except council’s advise as a matter of course?
Do you find erotica titivating?
Are doctors proscribing too many drugs these days?
Is it good practise to complement someone on principal alone?
Can a flounder founder?
When a sale is on do hoards fill the horde?
Mitigating is not a result of militating…or is it?
Must I cleanse my palette before my next coarse?
What sort of peddles does a bike maker pedal?
Does poring over a book lose wisdom.
Should comments in the forward be foreword?
Can you insure someone that exorcise will help them lose weight?
Life can be a tortuous path, or is that torturous…or both?
Do the poles lie about what we’re really thinking?
Does a 50 story building have many a storey to tell?
Would you close a window if it got a bit drafty?
Can you have your desert and eat it to?
Is it possible to have a duel personality?
I wonder if cereal killers were forced to eat serial as kids and hated it. Was that what struck a grizzly cord leading to there climactic rain of terror.

Now before you loose your head, I’ll leave you on a note that’s light
as painful as this was to read, harder still, was it to write!

~kat

For today’s NaPoWriMo 2018-Prompt: write a list poem in which all the items are made-up names, I cam up with a List Poem of questions using mangled confused words. Not exactly made up words (except for the title) but a horrifying misuse of words just the same. This was incredibly painful to write! haha! Please refer to the source* below to learn the correct meanings. I cannot live with the thought that I led anyone misspelling down the wrong vocabulary path! 🙂

*Source – Commonly Confused Words – Oxford Living Dictionary

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