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