giggling

A CNN anchor looking out from my TV screen this weekend informed us that former president Bill Clinton was out "stomping for a candidate." (I wondered if I heard wrong, and wrote it off, the first time. But later Sunday evening I heard him say it again: "stomping for a candidate.")

It made me giggle.
Picturing Bill Clinton out there, "stomping" for a candidate -- the word is "stumping."
The dictionary gives several definitions of the word stump: one is like, a tree stump. One is to baffle; "to frustrate the progress or efforts of..."
And the one we want is: "to travel over (a region) making political speeches or supporting a cause." Stumping.

The error could have been on the teleprompter: someone typed it on there as "stomping" either because of a "typo" or because the typist actually thought "stomping" was the correct word.
Or the anchorman could have read "stumping" and thought that was an error and changed it to "stomping" because he thought that was right.

Look up "stomp" in the dictionary; it tells us -- "a jazz dance marked by heavy stamping"... Actually I could picture Bill Clinton doing that for a candidate if he thought it would help. (Remember his saxophone-playing?) Clinton is a man who likes to have fun and enjoy life.

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