A Word With My Wife

I know sometimes what's going on in situations like this is that I know the word, but I'm messing with my wife.  But in this instance, for some unfathomable reason, I really just can't remember the strahz-bahz thing.  

I think it's that recent blow to the head I suffered.  Or else the recent blow to the head I suffered.

How To Avoid a TRULY MORTIFYING Spelling Mistake

This could have been very embarrassing for you.  Thank God I managed to get you to read this in time.  You're welcome, by the way.

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This exercise becomes especially dicey when working with animals.  I think a worm ring might be marginally better than its original, and a catpole seems reasonably harmless.  But a hog hedge sounds cruel, though potentially adorable.  And we will not be discussing what might happen to the muskrat, humpback and woodpecker.