SMS Musing #13

While in the shower:

A realisation:

doughty

Hardy; resolute.

doughy

Resembling dough, as in being soft, pale or flabby.

Both words can be used to describe people, and with a change of a single letter (the letter `t'), it means something completely antonymous. Funny how words work out like that sometimes. I don't really see the word ``doughty'' being used much these days though; I run into them mostly when I am reading some translated works from before the 1960s. Perhaps there is less reason these days for doughty men and women since [physical] wars and battles are fewer and more impersonal than before.