Missing Pro-posites*

Okay, enough with the serious stuff.  Let’s play a game,  like Miriam Cherry’s version of Sniglets over on PrawfsBlawg last month. This is a word game, and we are lawyers or law professors or law students (or in the case of my two readers, children of law professors) who rely on language to keep the dogs in Alpo, so it has something to do with the profession.  (I assume everyone who reads this blog is so literate they do the Saturday New York Times crossword puzzle in ink without mistake inside of fifteen minutes.)

The game is called Pro-posites.  In the last post I used the word disgruntled, which sounds like it ought to have an opposite:  gruntled.  Is anyone ever gruntled?  This is the missing pro-posite. 

Here’s another:  inept.  I have broad experience in being inept.  If I practice more, will I become ept?

The format of Legal Profession Blog, being a part of the Law Professor Blogs Network (“our editors focus their efforts, in both the permanent resources & links and daily news & information, on the scholarly and teaching needs of law professors”), requires one of us to approve your comment before it’s posted.  Any good faith attempt to supply missing pro-posites will be published.  (Sorry there are no other prizes.  All I could think of was the unused tube of Boudreaux’s Butt Paste I used in Secured Transactions as an example of trademarks and copyrights.)

[Jeff Lipshaw]

*I’m sorry, Paul.  I know this is outside the scope of the blog, but I couldn’t help it.  Don’t fire me!