Somewhere in the history of sports writing came this question: "Do you ever wonder why a grammatically correct sentence you’ve written just lies there like a dead fish?"
And the answer to this worry was the hundreds of sports verbs. To be fair, describing 'actions' in an interesting way takes some creativity.
There is a universal love and appreciation of sports. It has been magnified in the 20th century with newspaper, radio and television. I am biased and had thought it is about keeping the reader's/viewer's attention to the written words or the replay. Something that's already happened seems a bit like getting leftovers for dinner, so how to make leftovers appealing?.
I thought I would find dozens of articles on the funniest sports writing - the most extreme verbs and sentences, etc. This is because there are numerous articles on the sports verb. There are hundreds of words full of activity and action awaiting the writer and announcer.
But actually finding them proved elusive. A article says that the worst column written about sports ever published was by celebrated N.Y. Times writer, David Brooks on Jeremy Lin. But it isn't bad writing. A sports writer apologizes for "worst piece of sports journalism ever" - he used a framing device of a real person who had been abducted and held captive for 18 years to review sports activities in the 18 year period that the person missed. That might be tops on horrible mistakes.
There's lots on the best in sports, the greatest sports moments - are the 200, 51 or 21? Are you ready for the greatest sports headlines ever? Most are unrepeatably bad taste and sexist - sex-oriented puns on player surnames. Think "balls" and you can imagine the treasure trove. So they might in fact be the "worst".
My conclusion for the day: Oh well, that was worth a try.
Here's the miniature world of alpine rock garden displays.
There is the verb 'to noun', so that means there is the word 'nouning'. I found the term verbal noun - a noun that is morphologically related to a verb and similar to it in meaning - an example is: Brisk walking is good exercise.
I wonder if there is something that can't be 'nouned'. What isn't a person, place, thing, quality or idea?
So back to our lead line today - this is a picture of a primula dell at Winterthur last spring - a small valley, usually among trees. This one was magnificently planted in candelabra primulas. One of the benefits of Winterthur is that it is magnificently planted - one of the legacies of Henry Francis du Pont. May 15th is primula day at Winterthur. This is the view you would experience.
