Log #7 - Words or Phrases Impressions

LOG # 7. Sometimes when we read, certain words or phrases or images stand out. Maybe they are words or phrases that make an impression because of their sound, or maybe the meaning or image they make strikes us? Sometimes we find words or expressions we just do not understand. Share those that you have come across and describe why you listed them.

One of the words that made an immediate impact was the word "allus". I came to find out through research (my mother) that the word was meant as what we know as "always". It sounded strange as I read it, and at first I thought it was perhaps a nickname the mother was using. It wasn't capitalized, and in the context in which it was used, as a nickname it didn't make sense to me at all.

"Sore feet and damned short rations," is a phrase that made an impression. It sounds like something old veterans might tell their grandchildren when asked about some of their experiences in the Army. I could actually envision the soldiers having "sore feet" because of all the walking and carrying and moving around they did. "Short rations" - in other words, they were hungry and had none of the comforts of home.