Hi.
This is how you spell ‘Ridiculous.’
Thank you.
Odd that there has been so many rediculous threads lately.
Got it. Thanks.
Well, sure, if you mean “silly” or “absurd”. But if you mean “was diculous, got better, now I’m diculous again” the correct spelling is “rediculous”.
No, no, no. It’s riddikulus! Make sure you think of something funny while you say it, too.
The Height of the Ridiculous
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
I WROTE some lines once on a time
In wondrous merry mood,
And thought, as usual, men would say
They were exceeding good.
They were so queer, so very queerz
I laughed as I would die;
Albeit, in the general way,
A sober man am I.
I called my servant, and he came;
How kind it was of him
To mind a slender man like me,
He of the mighty limb.
“These to the printer,” I exclaimed,
And, in my humorous way,
I added (as a trifling jest,)
“There ’ll be the devil to pay.”
He took the paper, and I watched,
And saw him peep within;
At the first line he read, his face
Was all upon the grin.
He read the next; the grin grew broad,
And shot from ear to ear;
He read the third; a chuckling noise
I now began to hear.
The fourth; he broke into a roar;
The fifth; his waistband split;
The sixth; he burst five buttons off,
And tumbled in a fit.
Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye,
I watched that wretched man,
And since, I never dare to write
As funny as I can.
Sorry not sure where that extra “Z” came from.