a #Foreword #Exordium #Preamble #Preface #Proem #Prologue #Prolusion | @MerriamWebster #SynonymsOfForeword - inspired by the #WritersLift of the #WritersCommunity on @Twitter

Twitter hosts the posts that inspire me to write 'this "page" (not "post" 🤓) on my blog' with a hashtag searched on the page you can get to through 'the emboldened link(s)' below; but first I want to teach you about those words. And I find you understand words better if you see 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum into their Foundation)
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The word “Foreword” is built of Fore- & Word (influenced by words that mean "Preface").
#Forewords

Besides Foreword, The Thesaurus also lists the synonyms #Prolusion, #Prologue, #Proem, #Preface, #Preamble, #Exordium, ...
The word “Exordium” is built on ancient words that mean "I Begin (Commence)-Out of, -From."
#Exordiums #Exordia
The word “Preamble” is built on ancient words that mean "to Walk (Amble) Before; Preliminary" ( "You have to 'Walk Before' you can run!"😋)
#Preambulary #Preambles
The word “Preface” is built on ancient words that mean "to Speak-, Tell-, Say Before, -Beforehand."
#Prefaces #Prefaced #Prefacing #Prefatory #Prolegomenon
The word “Proem” is built on ancient words that mean "Song-, Chant-, Saga-, Tale- (Way) -Before" (Prelude).
#Proems #Proemial
The word “Prologue or #Prolog” is built on ancient words that mean "Discourse-, Speech- (Collect, Gather, Pick out Words) -Before"
#Prologues #Prologs
The word “Prolusion” is built on ancient words that mean "to Play Before, -Beforehand"
#Prolusions #Prolusory
... and The Thesaurus mentions some of the synonyms I've already 'done':

As a member of the #WritersCommunity on Twitter, I'll often see the tweet of a fellow writer "doing a #writerslift." And I'll comment with--well--nothing but 'the URL to this blog.' (I know I ought to include some text there to tell fellow 'tweeps'-what I'm writing here & -why they should read it, but--even though I'll explain the blog here-below--I'm hardly ever sure if this will explain 'my latest post' or 'any future post.')

The main theme of this blog--though--is 'etymology' (word-history, the ancient words that brought today's (usually English) words to their uses today).

See; when I was young and first 'reading' dictionaries (🤓 that is, reading entries in dictionaries), I would see listings that were followed by 'foreign words (and sometimes those words' meanings) on which the modern words were based'; and--if I had the time-to-spare--I'd go to those words' definitions, look at those words' bases, then go to the bases' definitions, look at the bases' bases, then go to the bases' bases' definitions ... and so on.

Introduced to 'hyperlinks' (with which I could direct the reader in a straight-line to each proceeding word-base), I set about doing that with words being used by-/about-topics in today's media.

A disabled trauma-survivor, I consume a lot of media---mostly TV (broadcast/cable & streaming ... which reminds me of my past love of musical-theatre), and a lot of Internet (mostly vlogs). So I hear a lot of interesting things and research a lot of interesting histories of the words connected to those topics.

Over the years, I've 'set those histories in a few different metaphors'---I've imagined them as 'Seeds thrown to the field by The Sower (in Lord Jesus Christ's famous parable of the same name)'; as 'Scents carried by the Visitors to Plato's Cave (where the rest of us are enchained facing the wall, and so only have the Visitors' Stories, the Shadows they cast against that Wall, and the Smells that waft in with them)';

sometimes I just stated that the root-words were the 'true sense' of the modern word (as the etymology of "Etymology" means 'study of the true sense') and lately I've imagined the word's roots as 'grains-of-sand in the foundation beneath today's modern words.' 

I mention those because I haven't really had time to go back and change every-single-entry to fit the latest metaphor.

But 'that explanation' isn't "the reason I'm writing this foreword/whatchamacallit." I'm doing it to get a better idea of 'this blog as "my Work-In-Progress (WIP)."'

For most writers, a WIP is 'the writing that one intends to submit for publication (a book/series-of-books, an article/series-of-articles, short-story/-stories or prose/poetry for inclusion in a publication) or for performance (script for a play/TV-show/movie, lyrics for a song).

This blog is not necessarily such a WIP. The only 'submitting' I'm planning on doing (or maybe writers call it 'querying'---but I think that's more like "auditioning to be the writer of a future-manuscript---perhaps with a guarantee that it will be published")--besides 'having this platform "post this text to The Web"' and then 'sharing its address on Twitter & maybe Facebook & maybe other social sharing-sites'--is 'those links' submission to YOU in hopes that you'll read the posts' (and the texts' continued presence on The Web, in hopes that people's searches will find my commentary to be useful🤞)


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