3.11.2014

Ruining English for Everyone

It's not a proper bottle.  Or maybe it is - it just doesn't have a proper top.  Lots of bottles don't have proper tops and they get called bottles all the same.  In fact, tons and tons of bottles have no tops at all and they are all accepted members of the genus bottle.

So it's a bottle with an odd top.  Someone has stuck something in some container and simulated a stopper.  It's obvious to anyone that nothing will be stopped by this mockery.  There might be a slight delay, but no stoppage.  Slippage?  Shortage?  Shrinkage?  Something lost, something gained maybe.  Lots of conditionals and no certainty, that's for sure.

What does one do with such a thing?  What use can one make out of a mock top bottle pop? 

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