some call it a conniption
he accused his cat october of it
whenever he approached her in the
kitchen to pick her uplove her up she ducked behind a folded wooden footstool
to elude him
it
was something of a game between them
if he approached her
elsewhere in the house she didnt mind hed pick her up scratch her head shoulders throat put his nose behind
her ear inhale her warm cinnamon scent then kissing her there Good girl Thank
you hed gently set her down
shed prance off
again this morning in the kitchen
Wha yare crazy october
havin a conniption
made him curious about the word
it origins are uncertain seemingly making its appearance around 1850
it is suggested it may be related
to the word corruption which was once used to describe a sense of anger seemed a stretch or perhaps may have come from canaphus a bit of English dialect that meant
ill-tempered corruption canaphus
an
canaphus is a corruption of captious which means ill-tempered Merriam-Webster Dictionary describes captious an adjective as a readiness
to detect trivial faults or raise objections on trivial grounds
he knew several
captious people apparently though men
an women he called them bitch if he
called them captious hed really get their goat because they werent prone to
going to the dictionary to find out for themselves thereby hed only succeed in raising the rancor
the ire they shared for him
HMMM he wasnt one to get going
he had to work hard to resist throwing gas on
a fire
a perpetual sucker for words
what he found very
interesting a conniption conniption fit since first coined it had year after year maintained a soft rolling plateau
regarding its usage
however since the 21st
Century to its latest posting in 2019 its
usage has quadrupled has not levelled
off
Whell whell whell Wha may be causing tha an here he thought only
october suffered conniption fits
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