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Other words or terms: she took it like a man (devalues a gender strong enough to deal with periods AND pushing out babies. I’d like to see you try that), popping, grope, pork/porking (funny, not sexy), bone, eating out, handjob/blowjob, gobble, getting your rocks off, getting off, etc. And don’t ever use the words ‘his dick erupted like a zit, spraying its white hot load.’  Ever.  Not least of all because load isn’t a sexy word, and the rest of it is stomach turning.  It was the worst thing I read in a fic for a year. 9) This is how we do it.  Here are some good starter tips, to avoid these clichéd traps and unpleasant expressions: - Stretch your vocabulary.  Explore new words and phrases. Create something original. - Try to think of the story you’re telling, and the characters in it.  Would they think in a direction that aligns with your narrative?   - Try to think of how the words you chose will inform your reader(s) about your feelings or your character’s feelings.  Are your words devaluing the other character(s)?  Are your words treating said character(s) as one would an object?  Is that your intent, as the story teller? - Remember foreplay. - Try to consider what responses feel real or true. - Think about the actual physics involved.  What things would cause stresses on the body, and where?  How would this impact the movements that your character(s) enact?  Sex isn’t a clean and harmless activity, if it’s rough, for example. So, here goes busting some myths, for the purposes of delivering helpful information.          If you’re holding someone up against a wall, there’s going to be limited ranges of certain movements.  You will probably bang your knees.  If you’re holding someone up, you probably won’t be able to get a hand between the two of you, to fiddle with anyone’s bits, or up, to pull anyone’s hair.  You would need an extra hand for that.  Also, it’s important to note that your character will probably only have two hands.          If you’re penetrating, that singular entry will probably not be a seamless thrust to your hilt.  You’ve got to push or slide that thing in.  Thrusting tends to come later, Sport.              And speaking of ‘come later,’ simultaneous orgasms are rare, and usually involve some tantric discipline.  You’re not going to nail that, each time.  And I’d be surprised if it happened on anyone’s first time.  Gents who slip it in that first time will probably shoot off too soon, and that’s normal and okay.            Homosexual males don’t tend to use melted butter for intercourse, and no, blood does NOT make a good lubricant.  Also, gay fics have way too much anal penetration.  Yes, you heard me.  In most cases, a homosexual couple will tend towards more oral sex and foreplay, because if they were all only doing anal it would a) get boring fast, and b) cause a lot of unnecessary soreness.  You need to balance those things, in a meaningful relationship fic.  I get that not every character interaction involves care, but where it does, learn a little balance.           Speaking of balance, when writing BDSM fics, remember the importance of aftercare. Read about it. Learn about it.  It’s a big part of a BDSM relationship. I know that this is a bit rushed and disorganized, but I really hope that you find it helpful.  

AA: I've heard muggles on about this. Here, it's the Automotive Association (similar to AAA, in the States).  In the US as well as the UK, AA is also Alcoholic's Anonymous.  Be clear on which one you're trying to call, if you've crashed your motor. Ace:  I've heard one or two of mine say this.  It means excellent. Good. Awesome.  It's an adjective.  Here, anyway.  In the States, you'll see it used as a verb (to ace a test- they give you an A in muggle school, instead of an O), and as a noun, a person who's at the top of their game, or a starting pitcher.   Amber: Outside of being that amazing natural stone that traps small insects in it, it's also what the UK folk will say, when referring to an orange-yellow traffic light.  I believe the US just calls them yellow lights. Banger: Yes, in the UK, these are plump sausages, but in the UK, they are also beat up, crappy cars (the US equivalent of which would be jalopy).  In the US, I believe, as well as here, a banger is a type of firework. Bash: To have a bash.  Have a go at it.  Although, it can also mean a party/celebration, or to strike or hit something. Beaver: A bearded man, or just the beard, although this is largely archaic, save for some corners of the UK.  Elsewhere, it's an adorable animal.  Or a crude word for what a lady keeps in her knickers. Bender: Sad to say, it's a rather rude word to call a fellow who likes fellows, over here, but in the US, and a bit over here, now, it means a period of overly excessive drug or alcohol use. Bum: Not just for the jobless, anymore! This word represents the bottom. Chips: These are what people in the United States call Fries. Crisps: These are what people in the US refer to as Chips. Drink Driving: In the United Kingdom, people tend to say Drink Driving, instead of Drunk Driving. Drink Problem: In the UK, people tend to say a person has a Drink Problem, rather than a Drinking problem. Fanny: Also called the front bum, this is... um... a lady place south of the navel, to people from the UK. Knickers: what is also known as panties. Pants: what is referred to in the US as underwear. Pissed: While it is sometimes used here to mean angry, that's far more common, abroad.  You're more likely to hear it being used to mean drunk.

I really hope that people enjoy it, and find it useful.

Another golden friend all about the verb love. 2) Drop the E and add E D. Drop the E, add I N G. When in doubt on a word, this is most likely correct. It also applies to S. Another note to remember is that words ending in Y, when pluralized or converted to a new tense, become IE and then D or S, depending. If converted to a present tense such as ending in ING, the Y remains as it is. Example: You wouldn't say "She crys or cryd or cryed." You would say that "she cried or cries." You would not say "She's crieing," but rather that "she's crying." Should you choose to use slide, "she's sliding," not "slideing" and she slides. Now this is a rare D deal breaker, for she can't have "slided." She would have slid. However, one would have glided, not glid. When in D doubt, take it word by word.

Spell work is important to any witch or wizard. Here, in wizarding Devon (home of Ottery St. Catchpole, and my humble Burrow), I've noticed that many owls I receive concern this very thing.  Spelling.  But it's important to remember that not everyone who's come to our corner of the wizarding world is from here.  Some are from New Zealand, The States, Australia, and many other places. That being, people are liable to spell a few things differently. This is where you come in.  If you're up for it, pick a word or group of words that you know is different where you are from another place, and share with the class.  It doesn't just have to be spelling.  It could be a word that means something different between places.  For instance, when I hear an American tourist threaten to spank their child's fanny, I'm mortified.  (Fanny means something entirely different, here in Merry Ol'.)  Defense is proper in some places, as where defence is correct, in others. So, tell us what's different.  Anything you can think of, if you please.  I hope to craft a proper list out your suggestions, and I'd appreciate it loads.   Thank you! ___________________________________________

Do you ever find yourself wondering if you're repeating a phrase properly?  Do you ever hear someone saying something that you know is wrong? Are you wondering what the muggle hell an eggcorn is?  Well, this is the post for you... To start, I'll explain eggcorns. The eggcorn is a substitution of a word or phrase that sounds similar to the original phrase, and introduces a meaning that is different from the original, but plausible in the same context.  One of my favourite examples of this is "old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease".It's not a mondegreen because the misconstrual is not part of a song or poem or similar performance. It's different from a malapropism (a what?), where the accidentally incorrect wordage makes a nonsensical phrase.   It's also different from a pun, because a person means the pun to have meaning, whereas, with an eggcorn, it is a mistake. Eggcorns often involve replacing an archaic or unfamiliar word with a more common or modern one, such as baited breath for bated breath. If you're still here, I'm going to go through a list of eggcorns and commonly buggered up phrases, showing you the right way to make yourself understood with these concepts. YAY!                                                 ~The List~ 1]  A Moot Point!  The Point is MOOT!!! Not a mute point. Moot means 'of little or no practical value or meaning.' So, it isn't that it's unheard, it's that it's not worth hearing. 2]  Ad hominem is the phrase.  It means against the man. Ad hominem attacks. Ad homonym is not correct.  A homonym is a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not.    Maybe if Fred is against George, he'll make an ad homonym attack? (this is a really lame joke.  Don't take me seriously, and try to write that anywhere.) 3]  A hair's breadth.  The width or space (breadth) of a hair.  She missed blocking the quaffle by a hair's breadth.  Not a hair's breath, or a hare's breath, or even a hare's breadth.   4]  On the spur of the moment is correct.  On the spurt of the moment is not.  And... ew. 5]  Praying mantis is correct, because it looks like it is praying.  Preying mantis, even though it does prey, is not correct. 6] Shoo-in.   Not shoe-in. "You're a shoo-in to win this match, Gryffindor!"  Imagine being shooed in across some winning line, or into some winner's circle. 7]  Every so often/Every once in a while. Every now and again.  Each time these instances occur.  Not ever so often or ever once in a while.  That makes no sense. 8]  Intents And Purposes.   For all intents and purposes.  Not intensive purposes.   Your purposes are not intensive. 9] All for naught.  Naught means nothing.  All for nothing.  It isn't all for not, or even all for knot, as I've seen some write. 10] Shuddering is to shiver or quake, as where shuttering is to close the shutters, or shut a place down or up, either for the night, or indefinitely. 11] Ulterior Motives! They are ulterior! Not Alterior motives. Alterior is not a word.  It's attractive, because we think of an alter- alternate, other motive. But ulterior, as a word, means intentionally kept concealed.  A secret motive. 12] All tolled.  All tolled and tallied.  All counted up.  Not all told.  Or even all toled, as tole isn't a word.  Also, it is not all total, as I have seen. 13] Anecdotal.  Anecdotal evidence.  Evidence that is from an anecdote.  Hearsay. Not antidotal evidence.  Antidotal is not only not a word, but hearsay doesn't cure poisonings. 14] That brings me to Hearsay.  Because you hear it said.  Not heresay.  You don't say it here, you hear it said. 15] In Other Words, not another words...  That makes no sense.  In other words means, "I will use these other words to explain my previously expressed point." 16] I can't be assed/arsed. It means, 'I can't be bothered.' It is not, I can't be asked.  You can ask, but I probably won't do it.  I can't be arsed. 17] Band together.  We band together, we don't ban together. We're not forbidding things as one.  We're joining, banding, unifying. 18] Tongue-in-cheek. That was a very tongue-in-cheek response.  Not tongue and cheek.  Sure, you maybe used both, but that's not how the words work, fella. 19] Traumatic experience. If it traumatizes you, and leaves an impression, it is a traumatic experience.  If you have a dramatic experience, and it traumatizes you, then keep your arse off the stage! 20] Just as soon. I'd just as soon not tell you.  You'd just as soon not go.  Not just assume.  I don't just assume not tell.  That makes no sense. 21] Augur well.  This does not augur well for you.  This augurs badly.  Augur means foretell.   I often see auger.  This augers well.  Auger is a noun, not a verb.  It cannot be the action. 22] Bawl one's eyes out.  This is a classic eggcorn.  To bawl is to cry.   I often see ball [one's] eyes out.  I don't want to think about how this would happen, but there is only one place on the head where such things could/should go, and the eye socket is not it!  Still, if you went home and balled your eyes out, then I applaud your flexibility, but really, it's probably not what you meant to say. 23] Strike/touch a chord. That strikes a chord with me.  It makes a sound that resonates with me in some fashion.  Think music.   It does not strike/touch a cord with me.  This would electrocute you.   Bloody muggle nonsense.  It's shocking, really. 24] In The Thralls.  In the thralls of the game of quidditch.  Think of being enthralled.  I often see In the trawls.  Trawl can make sense.  Being netted or enraptured.  But it isn't right.  Also, trawl is from where the phrase 'trolling' comes. 25] In the Throes. The throes of passion.   Death throes.   This is correct.  Throes are a severe pang, or spasm of pain, OR a condition of agonizing struggle or trouble, OR a sharp attack of emotion, OR something extremely, alternately intense and extreme.  So, you're not in death throws, or the throws of passion.  Also, throngs of passion is not correct, either. 26] Tell-tale.  The tell-tale signs that flesh eating slugs are in my pumpkin patch.  Not tell-tail.  It's not telling me a tail. *wag*  It's telling me a tale.  A true tale, as it happens.  It's telling the story. 27] On that note, tattle-tale.  They'll tell a tale on you.  Tattle-tale will tattle. Tattle-tail would be an appendage with a mouth near the bum. That's not so nice to think about! 28] Come to Terms.  Not come to turns.  You've come to terms, or an understanding. You've accepted the terms as true. 29] A Turn of Phrase.  This is opposite issue as the above.  I see a term of phrase, like a specific phrase, but it is a turn of phrase that is meant.   A twist of wording, or a way of saying something.    But it would be a term of endearment, not a turn of it. 30] To each his own.   To each [person], his own [view, or similar].   Not to each's own. 31] Make Do. To manage to get along with the means available is make do, not make due. Make do is essentially short for make [something] do well enough. 32] Giving someone their due.  Giving someone what is owed to them, and is due to them.  Not giving someone their do.  Here.  Have a wig. 33] A whole other.  Not a whole nother.  Nother is not a word!!!!!!!! (If someone says this, in dialog, only, it can be written as a-whole-nother *cringe*, much in the manner that you would write abso-fucking-lutely, or similar.) 34] Et Cetera.  This is a phrase comprised of two words.  It means and others.  Not etcetera, eccetera, and so on, and so forth. 35] Much ado.  A big to do.  Not much adieu.   This means much good bye. 36] Butt of the joke.  Not bud of the joke.  But why? A butt is one that serves as an object of ridicule or contempt.  Perhaps also butt, as in objective end of all jokes.  A bud would be a beginning.  A new thing.  The beginning of the joke, or the point of ridicule within the joke? 37] On that same line, I present: Nip it in the bud. Not nip it in the butt. To nip it in the bud is to take your (literal or proverbial) gardening shears, and nip the (literal or proverbial) flower off of the (literal or proverbial) plant, before it has had time to bloom (into a flower or a situation).  To nip it in the butt would be to bite it on the rear.  How is this going to stop the problem? 38] Social mores. Not social morays.  Mores are folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group. Morays are animals... I don't know that I've ever heard anyone refer to an eel as a shining example of morality. 39] Sloe-eyed.   Not slow eyed.  If I saw a sloe-eyed forest nymph, then I see a nymph of blackish eyes.  It comes from the small sour blue-black fruit of the blackthorn,  Prunus spinosa, which is a spiny shrub, of the rose family, as our resident herbologists will attest.  It's also used in making sloe gin.  Not slow gin. However you might feel after drinking your share of it.  also, referring to someone as slow-eyed is not a kind implication. 40] Short-sighted.  Don't be so short-sighted that you miss the bigger picture.  Sighted.  You're seeing the short view.  Not short-sided.   One leg being shorter than the other doesn't keep you from seeing the big picture.                                             ~The List: Part Deux~ 41] Matter of fact, Fact of the Matter, and all that matters is this.   What things matter, in the phrase, are the facts.  Perhaps just the one fact.  But people often transpose the words matter and manner, and it confuses the meaning.  One could say, 'as a matter of fact, ____ is the case,' or be 'matter-of-fact' about something. Someone could even say something 'matter-of-factly,' and that is considered correct.  To be matter-of-fact about something is to be literal about it.  Sometimes curt, or without emotion.  One could not be manner-of-fact, as that would not be correct, and wouldn't make any sense.   The matter at hand is what is concerns these statements, so it would be the fact of this matter, and the fact of some manner which holds no bearing on the situation. 42] A matter of opinion is the same deal as the above. It's the same rule, as it's a subject of an opinion. Same goes for a matter of time. It is a matter, a fixed certainty, an inevitability that is waiting to come to fruition. "It's only a matter of time before I get boobs, too."  A matter of record follows the same rules. It means a matter which has been written down, and recorded. 43] And on the matter above, The matter at hand.  The matter is the issue.  The issue at hand, or with which we are dealing, right now.  The issue [faced] at present.  The matter  at hand.  It isn't a manner at hand, as manner means sort, kind, behaviour, disposition.  None of those make sense in the above contexts. 44] A matter of life and death.   Same deal as the above.  This is a matter, a topic, an issue, a situation of life and death. Not a behaviour of life and death. 45] In a manner of speaking.  A manner of speaking is one's characteristic style, or manner, of expressing their ideas, with words.  The mannerisms unique to them, or typical for them.  It's not a matter of speaking, an issue or topic of it.  It's a way of doing it.  "His manner of speaking was rather abrupt."  To say in a manner of speaking, you're saying something approximate in explanation.  In answer to a question: “In a manner of speaking, yes.”  or  "She was, in a manner of speaking, not at her best – in fact, she was exhausted, and had the flu." 46] In a joking manner.  The manner, or way, in which a thing was said was joking, jesting, playful and/or not serious. 47] No laughing matter.  Again, we return to matters.  This matter, this situation, is nothing to laugh about.  It's serious. 48] As a matter of course.  If something happens as a matter of course, it happens normally; as a normal procedure.  "The healer checks your pulse, as a matter of course."  or  "You are expected to make your own bed, as a matter of course."   If something happens as a matter of course, it happens without people thinking about whether they want it or not.  "I don't think divination should be taught in schools, as a matter of course - if students want to learn it, that's their choice."   It happens naturally or automatically.  "Many pet owners lavish affection on their animals, as a matter of course." It's not a manner or kind of course, it's a situation of it. 49] To take matters into your own hands.  This means that you decide to handle the situation on your own.  To take into your own hands the matter.  So, one wouldn't say they meant to take a manner or kind into their own hands. It wouldn't make sense. 50] For that matter.   This means besides; in addition.  One wouldn't say for that kind, in this context.   "If you're hungry, take one of my licorice wands. For that matter, take two.  I'm full."  or "I don't like this broom. It lists left, and the bristles are shedding. For that matter, the whole thing is falling apart." or  "The boy is insufferable. So was his father, for that matter."  It can also mean 'to the degree that something is considered.'   "I don't know why she wanted to fly on her broomstick all the way to Edinburgh, in this weather, or why she wanted to fly that far, at all, for that matter."