Spanking Novel Vocabulary Fail
In the domestic discipline novel “Luke’s Rogue Bride” by Rayanna Jamison, there’s a hilarious failure of vocabulary:
Unafraid, she carefully bent prostate over the bed, positioning her hips over the wide pillows so that her bottom stuck up in the air level with Luke’s waist. She grabbed the pillow that was for her head and wrapped her arms around it tightly, rather than burying her face in it as she might have any other day.
Of course “prostate” is a common if usually hilarious typo for “prostrate”, but in this case, even if we do the charitable correction on the fly as we read, it still doesn’t work. Prostrate means to lay facedown and flat; you cannot be bent over a bed, or over pillows, or have your bottom “stuck up in the air”. This is almost as much fun as the authors who don’t know the difference between “prone” and “supine”.
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