"Cacophony"

There is something about these early Spring like days in March that make us feel as though we have been given a very special gift and must not waste it.  I had been tied up running errands and found the day had slipped away from me.  Determined to pay homage to the sunshine and warm temperature, I headed down to the river to soak in the last remaining hour of fading sunlight.   I stepped closer to the water and stopped.  I was bombarded by a cacophony in every direction.  I turned my head to the right to see if I could determine the “hooty hoot” of the doves, then looked overhead to identify the “honking” sounds of the Canada goose.  Every which way I turned was a different discordant noise,  trill sounds of red wing black birds, raucous cawing of crows , high pitch twittering of some bird which I could not see..  Then I heard a train whistle in the distance and a single engine plane overhead.  I heard the ducks flapping in the water. I stopped turning my head and listened to the cacophony become an ode to Spring.  It was amazing how all the sounds came together like a symphony of my world!  I smiled to myself and thought… “I just used the word cacophony!”  I was impressed with myself.  Cacophony… Wow, I’m not sure I have ever actually used that word in a sentence even in my head!

So I decided to write about that in my blog tonight.  Not the sounds of Spring, but words we hardly ever use and mostly how grateful  I am for spell check.   I read a lot and, in context, I know what most of the words I read mean.  I almost never look up a word.  I’m pretty confident in sorta knowing.  (I’m not very confident in my punctuation so I use a lot of commas just in case.) But spelling?  That’s a whole other ballgame!  Do you know how many different ways I have attempted to spell “cacophony”?  And even though spell check has corrected me each time, I’m still relying on it to fix things.  Do you know how many of the words in this blog have been corrected (not counting cacophony)? Discordant,grateful, determined…. And those are just regular words!   Oh I have words that I spell wrong regularly, like “develop” which does not have a e at the end but I seem to like it there.  I sometimes put an e at the end of wronge too but I know that doesn’t look right!  “Tongue”  well thankfully I don’t have to write that word very much because it always throws me!  But because I spell check, I can write with confidence that you will get my drift. And I can impress you with words like “cacophony” (if you’re not sure what it means… you can google it. I did just to be sure.)  It would be really nice if spell check could actually fix everything that I do!  Could someone get to work on that “life check” thing?

Ok, your turn.  Hit me with some uncommon words to describe your day today. (and in doing so, you’ll be helping me spice up my blog writing)  thanks..