Another HFY quote, but the concept is old:
A plan always sounds best before someone starts shooting at it.
This isn’t for pithiness, I actually looked it up:
The word slough, which rhymes with “grew”…
Because of course it does. Why would anyone expect it to rhyme with cough or plough? The secondary reason was that I was hoping it could be used for the wadi/arroyo seasonally dry creeks that litter South Dakota. It can’t. A slough is more swampy than that.
Maybe this is Things Looked Up of the day.
Is it “sheriff department”, “sheriff’s department”, or “sheriffs’ department”?
The correct term is Sheriff’s Department (singular possessive).
- Grammar: The department belongs to or is led by a single Sheriff, requiring the apostrophe before the ‘s’ (Sheriff’s).
- Plural Context: The plural possessive Sheriffs’ would only be correct if referring to multiple sheriffs collectively owning one department, which is not the standard administrative structure.
This week’s dead metaphore
Hoisted with his own petard
The AI helpfully explains:
Literally, a petard was a small, bell-shaped explosive device used in medieval sieges to blow open gates.
The term hoist derives from the archaic verb hoise (to lift), referring to the engineer being blown into the air by a premature explosion of the very bomb he placed.
Yeah. That one’s dead.
What is the difference between soliloquy and monologue?
The primary difference between a soliloquy and a monologue lies in the intended audience.
A monologue is a long speech delivered by a single character to other characters or directly to the audience within a play, often intended to persuade, explain, or reveal plot points to those present.
In contrast, a soliloquy is a speech delivered by a character who is alone (or believes they are alone), where they speak their innermost thoughts aloud to themselves, allowing the theater audience to eavesdrop on their private psyche.
Not a very quote-y quote-of-the-day post, but that’s what’s come up this week.
