INCREASE-DECREASE

I’m totally intrigued by words that sound the same (and are spelled the same) but have different meanings, also known as homonyms. (Thank me later for your English lesson.)

Like “stalk” which is the root part of a plant, or “stalk” like you crazy stalker stop following me, i.e. Sting and the whole, “I’ll be watching you” bit. Same word. Different meaning.

So what about March…and march.

We never even think of month names as being regular words. More like ancient ascriptions that no one dare question. Not to mention none of the month names are homonyms. Except one. March.

The definition for march: v. to walk forward in a stately deliberate manner (from Marchier which means to tread)

The definition of March: n. third month of the year (from the planet Mars)

What do treading and Mars have to do with each other, you ask? I have no idea. I got nothing. Not even a little bit. Totally reaching.

But I do know that March, for us east coast kids, is the month of transition. The month between winter and spring, where the snow melts, and the ground starts to soften again. Its when you don’t mind suffering a slight sniffle in exchange for a long sleeve t-shirt and a jacket. It’s so worth it. Where seasonal depressives poke their heads out of their holes, their lips curling to a grin. For many of us, March is the month things start to change and move “forward in a stately, deliberate manner.”

So though this post is all one big smoke show you’re reading today, that, by the way, I’m pretty proud of, the point should still be taken that it can’t hurt to turn the month of March…into a verb.

If that makes any sense.

Let’s not march…let’s March! (Or both.)

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