[NSQ Friday] I stumbled over a word that triggered an ugliness alarm. Where can I file my complaint?
Recently when following a link to Wikipedia, there in the text my reading was interrupted by a word that just looks ugly: "possesses". I find it a massively disturbing eyesore. Can I complain somewhere for that word to be changed?
P is a letter.
PO is a river in Italy.
POS is a store checkout computer, especially a crappy one.
POSS is a nickname for "opossum".
POSSE is a gang authorized by the sheriff.
POSSES are two or more of them.
POSSESS is what a property owner or a ghost does.
Yes i get that. And adding the -es makes it 3^rd^ person present. But could we just add a bit of haptic structure to it, perhaps "pottesses"? You see, fewer s-es and more upward pointing letters already makes it bearable.
I'm sure there's someone out there who thinks that a "pottess" is a feminine "potter".
Honestly, I’d take it up with the English, on account of it being their language (with a healthy dose of shame being thrown at the French).
Probably not
It looks like Gollum trying to say posses.