Where Words Come From
"The Mistake”
Once a confusing confabulation
the word was misspoken in a hurry,
an incorrect pronunciation,
born irrevocably blurry.
It was an overhanded prevarication
spoken unintentionally to deceive
an utterance for simple folk,
comfortably confusing to believe.
A bard's jumbled mess of squiggles
it was a carelessly penned transcription,
an etymological mishandling and
a typographical misrendering.
The word unabashedly perplexed
on the day of its origination,
yet this error of conception
lives on in linguistic publication.
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I want this collection of poems/prose to explain how words are added into the English language. If you don't think one poem provides an adequate explanation to your liking, write one that does. Be silly, sarcastic, serious--whatever. Please keep your explanations clean, though.
Now you say that you don't know where words come from? Well, do some research! Or, better yet, use your fantastically sublime imagination and write your own explanation.
****I included a lot of big words in my poem on purpose because doing so made me happy as the words all tickled my tongue. Do what makes you happy, okay?****
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