It’s Confusing

Does IT have a plural?

Consider the simple word its

Which sometimes an apostrophe splits

As a contraction it’s it’s

As a possessive it’s its

It’s confusing sometimes which its fits.

Reflections

I just got back from a class reunion, many of my old friends were not there, some by choice.

I always enjoy class reunions

They’re emotional not spiritual communions

I’m sad when I go

Missing old friends I know

But happy to talk with some new ones.

But meeting people and starting conversations isn’t easy for me.

Whenever I meet someone new

I never know quite what to do

How are you, a hand squeeze

Then a total brain freeze

What next? I haven’t a clue.

Free Advice

You can’t go wrong if you pick the right aphorism.

You’re lost if you pause or hesitate

Because time and tide will not wait

But a practice worth keeping

Is to look before leaping

Because never is much worse than late.

For a fool and his money.

Memories they tell me are priceless

My thoughts fetch a penny or less

A skinflint will ignore

That you get what you pay for

But the free things in life are still best.

The OED Breaks New Ground

As I am sure you know, that’s a metaphor.

And what is a metaphor?

It’s for when you need more

Than mere simile

When your object must be

Something else down to its core.

Every year the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) adds some new words.  I don’t mean to humblebrag, but I worked two of them into the limerick below.

See also:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11034121/Amazeballs-Your-guide-to-the-OEDs-street-speak.html

Some purists think it’s deplorbs

What the OED added is horbs

But the new words are totes

Acceptable colloques

And slangmeisters find them adorbs.

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