A few days ago, I said to Gary, “It’s so great! They took away the tree and all we have left is tree detrius. ” (pronounced “Deh-tree-us”)
His eyes widened. He gasped, and crowed, “Do you mean “DeTRITus?”
I scoffed, “There is no such word.”
Yeah, well, shut up. He was right and I was wrong. And I love him so much that on this Valentine’s Day I won’t even bother to cover my ass by saying I was making a pun (“de-TREE-us,” get it?)
Happy Valentine’s Day, dude.
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Isn’t that weird – I thought it was “detrius”, too! I wonder where we got that…. “Detritus” makes me think of dentists.
There is a medical term, detrius, but I have no business knowing it.Now, we should ask Friend #3, because she has spent the morning insisting that Garys Diaper haiku is wrong because according to her, “soiled” is two syllables.
I totally thought you were making a pun! 🙂 and I agree – “soil-ed” is two syllables.
Monkeyguuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrllll!Nope. See here:http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=boiled&typeofrhyme=perfect&org1=syl&org2=l