Forsooth For Flowering Forythia
I was feeling particularly uninspired image wise today so ended up only walking a few paces up our back garden to take this shot of our forsythia bush which has just recently come into flower. I wouldn't necessarily class it as one of my best efforts.
For some strange reason the word forsooth popped into my head when I was trying to think of a title and I decided I might as well go all alliterative!
Then when I looked up the meaning of the word forsooth I realised I have used it in entirely the wrong context. It actually means in truth or indeed and is often used to imply contempt, derision or to express disbelief.
I looked up online as to how you should use forsooth in a sentence and below are some of the hilarious and just plain weird examples it gave:
"Because it tasted pretty fricking close to real milk, which was milk, that forsooth, everyone secretly craved" (!)
"And now, forsooth, he sends over to ask advice and directions from Warde" (?!)
"We do not walk forsooth with our legs, because snakes propel themselves without them" (?!!)
The earliest known use of the verb forsooth that can be found, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is from 1661 in a diary of the writer and politician Samuel Pepys.
So my apologies to our forsythia bush if I have traduced it in any way by incorrectly using the word forsooth in my title which it could take as a sign of contempt or derision - far from it, I'm more than happy to see your delightfully vibrant blooms each Spring!
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