“Moped” is a dumb word. Change it. 

In 9th grade, my English teacher Miss Bruno at Kellenburg Memorial High School could have helped me out on this one and didn’t. It was my turn to read aloud and I didn’t know wtf they were talking about in the context and read it as the past tense of “mope”, saying “the mope-d” and Bruno just corrected me with a slight “heh” to her tone that I didn’t care for. The correct response was “it’s a weird word. definitely looks like the past tense of mope, but they’re talking about the motorized bike. You are so good and right and everyone else is dumb, including English. we should have a pizza party in your honor” but she didn’t.

Moped should be spelled Moe-Ped. That’s how you say it and “moped” is already a word for mopey mopes of the past, so we don’t need this confusion. “Run like the wind” and “wind up this thread” is already a trick. Moe-peds shouldn’t contribute to the verbal decay of society. Change it.

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