MIS-TAKE!!

 MIS-takes at Stake!

Of late, when I started contemplating on the wrong decisions or conclusions that I've taken or arrived at, the word that prickled my mind a lot was MIS-TAKE. Though Mistake is a single word, it appeared to me as two words MIS and TAKE and that is the reason for hyphenation of the word, keeping aside the grammatical underpinnings of hyphenating a word. I mistook the meaning of mistake until recent days. I misconceived that the word meant only an error or a mistake, but I realised, after separating the word as MIS and TAKE, which are self explanatory and understandable, also means wrongly taken calls. Coincidentally, the word also has another word in it and that is 'Stake', into which all the mis-takes have been staked. Last but not the least, if only MY is spelt as MI, my thoughts could have been more meaningful by the word MISTAKES per se..

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