Writing report
It is not all warm weather and Wee Free Men and gnomish hijinks here in the desert. I've also been getting wee bits of writing done. For instance, yesterday, I wrote a sijo (a la Linda Sue Park). And the day before, I finished a first draft of one of my Jane poems - a sonnet in praise of Dr. Samuel Johnson, in which I managed to use the word "ignominy". I may have a scanning issue with the word, however, or so my dear friend and first reader tells me. I suspect she pronounces it the way that Webster's lists first (IGnuhminy), whereas I pronounce it using the variant (igNAHminy). This could be a wee bit of a problem, I'm thinking, since, being a sonnet, it's in iambic pentameter, meaning that the location of stresses is muy importante. So, dear friends, what say you (if it's a word you've ever said): IGnuhminy or igNAHminy?
