I cogitate best when sitting on my porch stoop in the warm morning sunshine with a nice cuppa tea. When I cogitate elsewhere it manifests itself more like worry and less like pondering.

When did I last ‘gamboled’?… why just last week, with my 2 wee grandbabies as we annoyed (in good nature as only a 20month & 23month old can do) the family goats and sheep…..
Everyday is a great day to ‘gambole’…
Thanx for the word of the day, you’ve made my day !
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I think it is confusing! I have always used “home in” when referring to pin point accuracy…and “hone in” or just “hone” when referring to improving skill. I guess if one says she is honing her pronunciation (making it sharper) but she still needs to home in on her congugations…it could seem as though they are interchangeable…probably an evolution of the language that will proceed.

I see “hone in” as sharpening ones focus on something. So yes I can see it used as an alternative.

I would love to leave a wonderful reply, but others had honed the idea way better than I ever could. So I will just sit here in my home and hone up on my reading skills.

Slang can change on a daily basis, but I don’t think that misuse of a word should be encouraged. I work around college students and I get quite a few empty looks from the younger ones and dirty looks from the older ones because I can’t stop myself from correcting them when they misuse a word or mangle a cliche phrase.

I am so glad to find another person who thinks “garden hose” is a dirty word. I have purchased innumeral “anti-kink” hoses in green, yellow and flat black only to find they all kink. I had decided it was the way I pull, use, or even touch my hose that causes my problem, but I now know I am not alone. Thanks!

It’s my Windows XP computer that I remonstrate with on almost a daily basis. I restart, defrag, disk clean and it still decides that after being on for 8 hours it has just had enough and won’t move an inch no matter how hard I plead for it to run just a little bit longer!!!!

Oh, the garden hose think is so true. I remonstrate on my hilly yard, on the flat, hooking up to a sprinkler, or soaking hose. Just when I least want a problem, I have one. I have tried to keep myself from getting upset when it happens, and simple unkink the thing. I have at least 4 colors and name brand anti-kink hoses. I think their definition for anti-kink must be different from mine.