Ungulate

So the spell checker didn't like ungulated. It drew a red line underneath and suggested ungulate instead. What a lame spell checker, I thought. It can't do the past-participle thing?

Isn't this spelled with a D, David? Trudy asked, as I held my masterpiece out to her.

A friend once told me that one of the dangers of a large dictionary for spell checkers is that they find too many words -- words that aren't often used and are most often just plain typos.

ungulate. ung-gya-late. adj. (1) having hooves. (2) of or relating to the ungulates.

My spell checker's dictionary's too big.

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Watermelon Moon

One morning as I took a shower, she told me about a dream she had.

She told me about the sky. About the great watermelon she saw streaking from horizon to horizon.

She told me about the moon. About the red ring at its edges that ungulated mesmerizingly.

She told me about a dream. About the sky and the watermelon and the ungulating moon.

And I think I dropped my bar of soap.

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Update: Yes, it's undulate. Bad David! See this.

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