Monday, October 31, 2005
Rampid...Versus...Rapid
I have heard the word rampid for years. I say it. A perfect example is the blog below. I would have expressed a thought like "the bug is running rampid through our house now." Spell check does not like this word; I run to dictionary.com for verification. There is no such word. Usually I find the word when I do this because I tend to grab onto obscure words for some reason. It's disturbing to find out that rampid is not a word. It's a word I use a lot. I believe my family has used it for years, now I'll have to pay more attention to see if it's just me?
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dash likes to tell me words I use aren't real. I have proven him wrong on different occasions. He has proven me wrong too! My favorite one yet was the word "het." He swore that it wasn't a real word.
het
adj : made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated'); "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana"; "he was all het up and sweaty" [syn: heated, heated up, het up]
I agree heated probably sounds better and I don't say het anymore because of him!
I have definately heard the word rampid before. Rampant is a word. I think that is the correct word to use in "the bug is running rampant through our house now"
Maybe someone said rampant and someone else heard rampid.
Thanks Golden! I am a poor speller and I am sure you are right down through the years I have heard it with a d instead of a t. duh. I am so glad that I have the opportunity to keep learning even if its a spelling lesson that I needed instead of a life lesson!
Good call G!
I was also thinking that it was rampant and not rampid. I can see how they could get mixed up, because they almost sound alike.
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