More journeys of interest...

Now I did not suggest that it was a physically moving vacation type trip; only a journey.

Journeys can be many things to as many people who think about what it is…
And I had mentioned a few days ago how I would like to know more than my little brain has had in it for all these years… and that I had wanted to refill it with new information or learning more about minute mundane things that I thought I knew mostly about but not the whole story, okay?

One word was the term or profession of, ‘wordsmith’, is it a real word or a compound system contrived by someone to describe people of the amazing ability to know the meaning of many words and their proper usages?
WORDSMITH, to me gives you the feel of a throw back word from a time where specialist in certain fields were called smiths, such as Blacksmiths who knew how to make metal wrought iron objects from decorative to useful.
Goldsmiths did the same with gold and silversmiths did it with silver, tinsmiths with their medium of tin, coppersmiths with copper etc, you get the idea…
So anyone would logically, dare I say ‘assume’ that a WORDSMITH worked with words?

And voila I was correct!
Below is the accurate definition of WORDSMITH!
“Definition of WORDSMITH
: a person who works with words; especially : a skillful writer
— word•smith•ery \-ˌsmi-thə-rē\ noun
First Known Use of WORDSMITH
1873”
Thanks to Merriam Webster online dictionary.

Now that that is cleared up…
Are there other wonderments of mine that need attention this evening?
Well, only since you asked, or you didn’t; oh no, I hear you yelling that I did! Whoa, keep the words to a minimum folks I cannot understand all of you when you try speaking at the same time! Kidding, but of course you knew that… Oh some of you didn’t?
Shall I explain?
I can’t hear you since this is NOT SKYPE, you see I do not have that capability, this is not a smart phone, iphone, ipad or iiiiii anything! Ours is an elderly PC put together with a spit and a prayer, actually more like a Frankenstein with legally purchased parts, no grave robbing parts here, ha!

Although, this is usually all about I, thus any ipad connection, chop shop variety, but all legally acquired too, ha!
Wait, my wordsmith cohabitants of this blog ARE all my own interpretation of my own thoughts ideas and or concepts, including the redundancies!

Where else can you read nightly such fracturing of the English language so blatantly?
Come on, you know that you enjoy finding all my grammatical and non grammatical butchery, don’t cha?
Teasing you, or perhaps not…

Moving on…
Now that concept of practice makes perfect, why this is a perfect example of that not necessarily being the case, hmm?
Well, let’s put on our analytical hats for a second and really examine what the word, ‘practice’ means, okay?

“prac•tice (pr k t s)
v. prac•ticed, prac•tic•ing, prac•tic•es
v.tr.
1. To do or perform habitually or customarily; make a habit of: practices courtesy in social situations.
2. To do or perform (something) repeatedly in order to acquire or polish a skill: practice a dance step.
3. To give lessons or repeated instructions to; drill: practiced the students in handwriting.
4. To work at, especially as a profession: practice law.
5. To carry out in action; observe: practices a religion piously.
6. Obsolete To plot (something evil).
v.intr.
1. To do or perform something habitually or repeatedly.
2. To do something repeatedly in order to acquire or polish a skill.
3. To work at a profession.
4. Archaic To intrigue or plot.
n.
1. A habitual or customary action or way of doing something: makes a practice of being punctual.
2.
a. Repeated performance of an activity in order to learn or perfect a skill: Practice will make you a good musician.
b. A session of preparation or performance undertaken to acquire or polish a skill: goes to piano practice weekly; scheduled a soccer practice for Saturday.
c. Archaic The skill so learned or perfected.
d. The condition of being skilled through repeated exercise: out of practice.
3. The act or process of doing something; performance or action: a theory that is difficult to put into practice.
4. Exercise of an occupation or profession: the practice of law.
5. The business of a professional person: an obstetrician with her own practice.
6. A habitual or customary action or act. Often used in the plural: That company engages in questionable business practices. Facial tattooing is a standard practice among certain peoples.
7. Law The methods of procedure used in a court of law.
8. Archaic
a. The act of tricking or scheming, especially with malicious intent.
b. A trick, scheme, or intrigue.
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[Middle English practisen, from Old French practiser, alteration of practiquer, from practique, practice, from Medieval Latin pr ctica; see practicable.]
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prac tic•er n.
Synonyms: practice, exercise, rehearse
These verbs mean to do repeatedly to acquire or maintain proficiency: practice the shot put; exercising one's wits; rehearsed the play for 14 days. See Also Synonyms at habit.”

“The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.” (OOPS this is NOT plagiarism! I used the quotes and therefore I am completely innocent, really, please?)

Thanks to my online resource: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/practice

Now I do hope that when I use these two important words in the future I will have under my belt, figuratively speaking, the all encompassing proper usage of them with their personal identities well in tact and not used irrespectively or disrespectively without thought and so in conclusion, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages and we will too! And don’t forget to smile since it does fool the brain!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?