Tangents

So my blog today was going to be about extremism.  I started doing a bit of internet research but then my mind started wandering.  So instead of a serious post, I'm going with random thoughts.

My first distraction was a word I never knew existed in the English language:  Exonym.  (I would glare at my high school teachers, but to be honest, I may have slept through the lesson.)

exonym
[ek-soh-nim]

noun

1. a name used by foreigners for a place, as Florence for Firenze.
2. a name used by foreigners to refer to a people or social group that the group itself does not use, as Germans for Deutsche.

Tangent 1:  Exonym is not considered a word according to blogger spell check.
Tangent 2:  I can't figure out what service is being used by blogger for spell check.  I have no one to blame but blogger/google?  Microsoft word recognizes it.
Tangent 3:  I guess I'm old school and I need to update my habits but I still put 2 spaces after a colon and at the end of a sentence.

Do I have ADHD?  Maybe!