1/12/2023 0 Comments Paradox mydictionaryWhen pony is acting as a verb it is doing so in the action of paying money. You probably won’t find it on the list of verbs when studying the English language, but it is a verb, just not the way I want it to be. It makes sense to us, but it must be confusing for others. We also use the word pony when speaking about polo ponies, even though they are horses, and in reference to playing the ponies when you bet on racehorses. “You’re sitting on a real courser there, aren’t you?” It’s a good word. “Boy, your horse is a real courser,” you could say. Naturally, I was intrigued by the word courser, so I went back to my dictionary, and I think we need to bring this word back into circulation, even though my word document is spewing red lines in protest.Ĭourser: “swift powerful horse a charger.” ![]() ![]() I know these words are only supposed to relate to the word horse but, honestly, what an odd selection. The next bunch of words were draft animal, plow horse, racer… piebald, pinto, palomino, Arabian, stallion, courser and see also animal. My thesaurus was unwittingly getting closer to the recycle bin. It felt like a choose your own adventure book, and so I turned to page 207 with child-like excitement on the brink of discovery. Then the thesaurus said, “see also horse“. “Hi, yes I am looking to buy my 5-year-old a bronco.” This would be met with a grimace no doubt and the loving mother would rephrase her statement, “Well by bronco I mean a mustang. This is the very reason movies and books get things so wrong about horses. And while we may believe this to be true, I doubt very much my thesaurus is being facetious. ![]() So, I turned to my Webster’s New Thesaurus and now I have lost all faith in this book, because it told me the best and only synonyms for pony are bronco and mustang.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |