Fun Unlimited: Not In My Nature.

Not In My Nature.

It's not in my nature to let a thing slide - I have to speak out, I am not being snide.

When grammar and syntax and spelling's awry - I just have to say so and insist they 'try'!

My 'Street-cred' on Shortbread is probably low - but it's not in my nature to stifle the blow;

I have something to say, then I say it, Amen - and tolerate few who might try to say 'When'.

(That's a joke in my family, when pouring tea; - 'twas my mother's nature to let it flow free.

Always she'd tell us, 'Say when...' as she poured - so we'd laugh and pretend she was being ignored).

She too was quite finicky about language - so that's where I get it from, mum was my 'Sage'.

Now I can't stand the way English has changed - you can't use once lovely words; they've been deranged.

There's 'Fairy' and 'Gay' or 'Too hot in bed' - and those sidelong smirks are reactions I dread.

If I'm trying to be serious it narks me so - to have to be careful of each word, you know?

No, it's not in my nature to let a thing go - not in my nature to go with the flow.

I question and analyse even the Law, - and misprints; long paragraphs; see ev'ry flaw.

I just want to show that there's logic in there - punctuation and spelling all really need care.

A dictionary is essential to me - 'though 'vernacular' must be used, I agree,

where characters speak in a story or rhyme - I use it myself so it isn't a crime.

I just nit-pick and worrit and writhe in my chair - but I'm one against many; I have to despair.