My MS Bookshelf American Heritage Dictionary
(1992) does not include "equanimous." While surprised, I handled the revelation
with equanimity.
In truth, I thought the adjective was "equananimous," about
which inaccuracy I was not so equanimous. A web search showed me the error of my ways.
Other than continuing guilt for my historic lack of moral
fiber and the never-ending struggles to keep my health-care clinic and mail-order pharmacy
straight and timely on my prescriptions, my greatest chronic aggravation is the
discovery of word usage and spellings about which I have spent the major portion
of my supposedly educated life ignorant or sloppy.
It seems that wordsmithing must continue to be the subject of on-the-job training. I'm just annoyed that I've carried so much erroneous information in my head for so many years, and I wonder what other words I "know" that are, in fact, mistaken.
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Illustration by Theodor Kittelsen
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