All right, yes, I know. "Margarita" is spelled wrong below.........it didn't look right when I wrote it but I was too lazy at the time to check out the old American Heritage.
Normally, I would not feel guilty about spelling it wrong in a blog which no one but me reads, but Poppy has made me hyper-sensitive to these things.
And, YES, I also know that I dangle participles, split infinitives, and do all the other things that copy editors abhor - but, you know what? Sometimes it just sounds better to leave that participle dangling around, and that infinitive split in an ear-pleasing manner.
Just what the hell is a "participle" anyway? Here's what the dictionary says:
"participle: a nominal form of a verb that is used with an auxiliary verb to indicate certain tenses and that can also function independently as an adjective."
I don't know about anyone else, but I still don't know. What it is. A participle.
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