Whas It?
You know how occasionally you’ll write an everyday word and it just looks misspelled? I just had that with ‘brightening’. Right now, that word just looks messed up to me, but I’ve copied and pasted it into three online dictionaries and it checks out. Even looking at it now, it just looks wrong.
For the record, when I’m writing fast, I also have major problems with maybe/maby and baby/baybe.
One time, when I was at school, I wrote a story called ‘Was It?’, which was your stereotypical schlock about someone having a dream, but then waking up and seeing something that made them doubt whether it actually was a dream. In this case, he saw sand on his shoes after dreaming about a big adventure in the desert.
But that’s not the point.
The point is that I initially called it ‘Whas It?’. I realised my mistake and tippexed it out. And then did it again. Feeling like a prick, I tippexed it out again and, I swear, I did it again!
Fucking words.
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