Comment from Teri7

Excellent

Craig, This is a very well written and interesting post you have done. I have never heard of that my friend. You used great descriptive words to tell us about this and great imagery too! Blessings, teri

 Comment Written 02-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 02-Mar-2018

Thanks very much for the lovely comments, Teri :) Craig

reply by Teri7 on 02-Mar-2018

you are so welcome my friend!

Comment from --Turtle.

Excellent

Hey, Craig.

I read through this poem, a brain tease this morning, done with a poetic flare... Nice job on engaging the reader to interact with the poem,

Find the fake word?
Without checking notes? I don't think I can do it without notes, or a dictionary, so instead I'll tell you all these words are real and balderdash the definitions >; )

Quatorzain.... a delightful noun forcing one to think.
purclaim, ... a noun... either a fact or entity of upstanding history.
mountweazel ... something that is similar to a purclaim, but from the notes here, I know that it is a noun, meaning a ficticious entry... hmm,
undervote ... another noun, tends to be substandered, though none of the verses here are that.
ridgy-didge ... a word that means up to the challenge, or ringing true.

(don't worry, I'll go back and check the real meaning of each word... to see how close or far I am.)

But, there's only one word that contradicts itself. purclaim seems to be read as a word similar to mountweazle, or mountweazle is applied to it, but I fake defined it to mean the opposite.

This was fun though, the poem ... I was engaged in the game it was playing, and nothing jumped out for me to pause on in the poem itself. The notes had me, too. I was reading through and actually felt bad for Virginia there for a moment... thinking her life had ended the way it had... thinking how tragic it was, how photographers really do place themselves in harms' way. Combustibles magazine... sheesh. I am very gullible.

Probably why I have a hard time playing balderdash, too eager to believe a word could be as it is defined, until a contradiction comes along. As long as the balderdash doesn't contradict itself.

Nice job here.

 Comment Written 02-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 02-Mar-2018

Haha yep, purclaim was the ring-in - nice detective work there :)

Thanks for getting into the spirit of the game, Turtle. I think the most fun part for me was imagining someone vacuuming the floor dressed in spandex tights, while listening to Muzak. Ewwww. For some reason, she had an orange perm.

I like Balderdash, and from recollection (I haven't played it in a very long time), I think I wasn't too bad with the fake definitions.

Muchas gracias,
Craig

Comment from damommy

Excellent

Is it 'purclaim?' I don't think that's a real word. A couple of others I had my doubts about, but I'm sure of this one.

Quite a puzzle you've written in a poem. Very creative.

 Comment Written 01-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 01-Mar-2018

You got it first time, well done! Thanks for the kind review, much appreciated. Craig

Comment from Pearl Edwards

Excellent

Well no I couldn't not look up in my little modern oxford dictionary to find (or not find) purclaim and quatorzain missing. Now some will possibly say ridgy-didge but we know that's a word, has to be. Very interesting author's notes, Craig hadn't heard of that before. Cheeky poem.
cheers,
valda

 Comment Written 28-Feb-2018

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reply by the author on 28-Feb-2018

Quatorzain is in a number of dictionaries, Valda. Odd the Oxford has left it out. So that means purclaim is the red herring :)

Thanks for the great review - cheers, Craig

Comment from LIJ Red

Excellent

Wasn't a purclaim the prospector's mine site before the deed was actually recorded?
Nah, I doubt it. So Mountweazel was another Clark Kent...excellent word post.

 Comment Written 28-Feb-2018

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reply by the author on 28-Feb-2018

Spot on! Thanks for the fun review, much appreciated - Craig

Comment from strandregs

Exceptional

HI craig
hardly could I find the word with my poor vocabulary.
but, I enjoyed the first couplet so much I decided to award you
the sixpack.
so enjoy the rich fumes with this non alcoholic review and smile all the way .
it; snowing like frozen hell here,:-))Z.

 Comment Written 28-Feb-2018

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reply by the author on 28-Feb-2018

Thanks so much for the great review, and the sixpack! (Although, I thought it was a non-alcoholic review. Where's the fun in that? Still, as it's not quite midday here yet, I guess I'd better make do with OJ - the drink that is, not the criminal). Muchas gracias! Craig

Comment from Gloria ....

Excellent

Love the grade A paper quality in your artwork.

A terrific sonnet form written in your signature pristine metre and rhymes. Of course illustrating your unique take on life. I caught the sore thumb word right off. But what a neat idea to insert a mountweazel to detect plagiarism. Just like a sleeper cell. What an odd coincidence the word's creator died in an explosion while writing for Combustibles magazine. Conspiracy theorists would have a field day with this.

Thanks so much for the new word and interesting history behind it.

Great job!

Gloria

 Comment Written 28-Feb-2018

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reply by the author on 28-Feb-2018

Thanks so much, Gloria. Unique is good, I think. After all - we're all individuals ("yes - we're all individuals!") Much appreciation, Craig

Comment from Phyllis Stewart

Excellent

Very interesting... I'm guessing that purclaim is not a real word, because the other candidates sound so much worse, and you wouldn't choose the obvious ones, like ridgey-didgey, which HAS to be real... it's too cool not to be! :)

 Comment Written 28-Feb-2018

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reply by the author on 28-Feb-2018

Indeed, ridgy-didge is, well, ridgy-didge, and purclaim is totally fabricated :) Well picked. Craig

Comment from rama devi

Excellent

He he he - ridgy didge was my first guess, but no, that';s a word. I looked up three words and finally figure it must be purclaim. This is a clever little riddle. I enjoyed the challenge. Thanks! i never knew such a thing existed. So funny!

Well crafted sonnet with near-flawless meter, fine rhymes and good phonetics too.


Scansion is slightly forced on this line:

But can you do it without checking notes?


WITHout puts the accent on the wrong syllable.


I love that you hid the word in plain sight by actually stating it directly:

you'll come across a purclaim quite unreal;

Indeed I did!


Chuckling,
rd

 Comment Written 28-Feb-2018

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reply by the author on 28-Feb-2018

Thanks for the lovely review, RD, and I'm glad you actually checked them out hehe. Imagine anyone thinking ridgy-didge is not, well... ridgy-didge! :) Much appreciated, Craig

reply by rama devi on 28-Feb-2018

:-)))))

Comment from Joy Graham

Excellent

What the heck is ridgy-didge? Would it fit inside a yurt? Or could it be a didgy-ridge? It sounds as it if really has to hurt, and so I better stay alert

Interesting word of the day. Never heard of it before so I'm really gaining a lot of knowledge from your word of the day series :)

 Comment Written 28-Feb-2018

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reply by the author on 28-Feb-2018

Ridgy-didge means real or true, so as unbelievable as it may seem, that's not the one lol. You can bet your purclaim on that :) Thanks Joy - Craig