Matutolypea

This is a great word and apparently a made up word. I found it will going through one of my favorite books, the Flip Dictionary (which really is a Thersuarus), while trying to find another word for wronged. This one means to get up on the wrong side of the bed. I saw it in the text and had to look it up. According to MyDictionary.com matutolypea is not actually a word, it is a made up word that is a combination of both Greek and Latin. I just find the idea of a nonsense word to be funny, especially one that is supposed to mean to get up on the wrong side of the bed. I had always hated the term when I was younger because I though that there actually was a wrong side to get up on, or rather a wrong side to get out of. I often tried to get out of bed from the footboard since I believed that that wasn't a side. So if any told me that I had gotten out of bed on the wrong side I could tell them that I certainly had not. I hadn't planned on including anything else in this post but it is too tempting and cute not to attempt a poem about this little quirk I haven't thought of in years. Don't judge me on how terrible this first attempt is going to because I kind of feel like rhyming is going to be imporant . Oh and here is a link to the mydictionary definition, it has a pronounciation thing to, although I think the guy saying it has too much of a "bee" sound at the end rather than a "pee" sound.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/wotd/wotd.pl?word=matutolypea

Matutolypea

I was always worrried about getting out on the wrong side of the bed.
When I was little I worried about which side was wrong,
but I found ways to get over that dread.

I would simply climb over the end of my bed,
away from Morhpeus, up and strong,
that was enough to let me lightly tread.

And for the day I would get ahead
by simply saying to the throng
that I had not gotten out on the wrong side of the bed.

Copyright 2007 William Curb