Mamie, you go, girl! re. Monuments / Memorials ... I'm the same way when someone uses "y'all" to refer to one person. One person is not a "y'all" ... y'all is plural (contraction for "you all").
With "monument" and "memorial" though ... what exactly is the distinction? I know the name of that national landmark is the Washington Monument, but is there a reason it's not also "a memorial"? Dictionary.com gives this as the noun def. of "memorial":
:::Something, such as a monument or holiday, intended to celebrate or honor the memory of a person or an event.:::
Dictionary.com gives the following (first) as the noun def. of "monument":
:::A structure, such as a building or sculpture, erected as a memorial.:::
I figure, dictionary definitions aside, there must be some ... perhaps subtle ... difference between the two.
Liz, I love
too! :) btw, check out my fan photos, lol ... you can change
the link to that grapic to the fan photos one instead of hot linking to that gravewhiteway site (even though they're guilty of hot linking themselves). I made that logo, lol, read the long-a$$ description in fan photos. :) Greg was never crazy about that logo; he likes the current one much better, and I have to say, I agree with him!
Thinking of scanning and uploading my high school grad. pic to fan photos. Anybody want to see it? LOL From the 70s!! egad!
(I just said 'egad,' y'all!)
Barb xo