Month: July 2016
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Two Words: Forgo / Forego
What is the difference between “forgo” and “forego”? Are these just alternate spellings of the same word? No, these are words with distinctly different meanings. And sometimes devilishly hard to tell apart. So let’s fix that! To forego (with an “e”) means, literally, to “go before”. That telltale syllable “fore” is our clue: It normally…
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Two Words: Inept / Adept
Is “adept” the opposite of “inept”? Yes – and no. Both in sound and meaning, these words are near-perfect opposites. Their respective origins and histories, however, indicate they have nothing to do with one another. First, some history of my own: Back in the early Seventies, I was a reporter for the Tullahoma News in…
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How to Write a Book by Accident
My latest book came into being by accident. The story behind that is fun (for me, anyway). Maybe even useful (for you and me). What really happened is that I was writing one book, but it ended up being two. The second one is the accident. Here’s the scoop: Sometime last year, I started writing…