You Oughta Be Truthin'

I was amazed when I discovered (or rather was told) that there is no verb in the English language for telling the truth. Anybody want to take a shot at why?

The closest I have seen is a line in Nancy Sinatra's one-hit-wonder "These Boots Are Made For Walking":

You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
and you keep losin' when you oughta not bet.
You keep samin' when you oughta be changin'.
Now what's right is right, but you ain't been right yet.

I'll have to think about whether there is a single verb in English for staying the same.

Loose Lips, Sync Slips (or "Bout to Loose My Mind)"

Too often of late, I have been coming across this error as shown in the following quote about Hillary Clinton:

There is no reason to believe that the nomination is still not hers to loose.

This was not a typo because the follow-up sentence repeated the same error:

But she's clearly showing a capability to loose and lost the air of invincibility against which each of her fellow competitors have had to struggle.

A quick google will find "loose" being misused for "lose" even in headlines.

If this keeps up, umm-egos, I may loose my marbles.

What did that umm-ego mean?

This past Lord's Day I distinctly heard one of our umm-egos say something to the effect (is my credibility very high when I use the words "distinctly" and "something to the effect" in the same sentence?) that someone was equivocating when they tried to compare two things that this umm-ego thought could or should not be compared. Perhaps the word he was grasping for was "equating". I believe "to equivocate" means to hesitate between two positions or back off from a former position (but only tentatively). But I could be wrong. I am willing to express my lack of certainty. But perhaps* one of the umm-egos would like to come in here and defend himself or the other umm-ego, depending on which one comes forward first.



+"perhaps" is another of those words that appears to be falling out of favor.