Yes. That’s the beauty of the English language. Apologies to the rest of the world, but everyone is partly to blame because English is just stolen bits of other languages that then developed a superiority complex. We stole your shoes and now flaunt them in the street mocking you for not having *our* shoes. When you point out we’re not wearing any pants, we storm off in a huff. … Okay, that got a little weird. “Weird” will likely be a current theme on this site.

But! For the purposes of “Better off Read,” it’s pronounced like “red” because I decided to riff off of the saying “better off dead.” I overthink everything, but when confronted with WordPress instructing me to choose a title, I chose that in a split second with none of my usual deliberation and agonizing. So now we’re all stuck with it. My instantaneous thought was, I love to write, and so I should just get down to it and write. If I don’t write, then what is it to live a life? Words are better off read, than dead.

So there you have it. Now you can read read without seeing red. #sorrynotsorry