Oozings

 

From time to time I find want to argue with Words With Friends (WWF) about words such as this one:  "Oozings" is TOO a word. (blowing Raspberries) As evidence I offer an example of its use by on of the greatest poets of the English Language, John Keats who wrote of "Autumn" (in her personification or as a goddess) "Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours."  (notice too his use of apostrophe which I may have mentioned in a recent FB post)

I suppose the problem lies in forgetting about the use of participles as nouns, and as a noun it could be plural and that is how Keats uses it.  So many apples we can watch dozens of pressings and oozing after oozing--that would be more than one, so yes, oozings will work.

You might also note the over abundance of vowels I had to choose from in this round of WWF left me with few options from for maximum point which added to my consternation.  And what, exactly, is one to do with four Es?  

I will relent and repent on my stance on the word "frack."  "Frack" is another word I tried to use that WWF outlawed, band, dismissed or failed to recognize.  My logic is that if the participle "fracking" is a word then "frack" must be a word.  However, I now consider the word a lexical aberration.  The base form of the word actually comes from "fracture."  However, I would still argue that in popular culture the word "frack" was used constantly on the TV series Babylon 5 (1993-1998) so it should be a word if it has any kind of common use as a replacement for the other "F" word.

Rant over.  Thanks for your consideration.