Scribe

sub·scrip·tion 1. a. A purchase made by signed order, as for a periodical for a specified period of time or for a series of performances. b. An agreement to receive or be given access to electronic texts or services, especially over the Internet. 2. Acceptance, as of articles of faith, demonstrated by the signing of one's name. 3. a. The raising of money from subscribers. b. A sum of money so raised. 4. The signing of one's name, as to a document. 5. Something subscribed.

pre·scrip·tion n. 1. a. The act of establishing official rules, laws, or directions. b. Something prescribed as a rule. 2. a. A written order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment. b. A prescribed medicine or other treatment. c. An ophthalmologist's or optometrist's written instruction, as for the grinding of corrective lenses. 3. A formula directing the preparation of something. 4. Law The process of acquiring title to property by reason of uninterrupted possession of specified duration. Also called positive prescription. 5. Law The limitation of time beyond which an action, debt, or crime is no longer valid or enforceable. Also called negative prescription. What do you subscribe to? What do you prescribe, and who for? Sub indicates underneath. Subscription is that underneath, you are always attached. Prescription indicates before, or a list of. Before you create take your pills, you read the prescription, the list of orders. There is order in both of these words. Script. Written something. Can you prescribe to a faith? No, but you can subscribe to a faith...Can you prescribe a magazine? ...No. ?? Can you?  I think when I was in fourth grade I was determined to be intelligent. I wanted to learn every word, read every book, speak and write about everything I knew. I was so eager that I forgot to learn, and I simply regurgitated any information that came into my tiny sphere of awareness. Don't get me wrong, my 4th grade word "erudite" I chose to describe (DE-scribe) myself was true. But in all honesty, I believe I am much more an erudite mimicker. I can mimic people's intelligence and can foresee things that might catch me up, and I avoid them. Subscribe, prescribe, describe, ascribe, proscribe, transcribe...why all these scribe words? Writing must be pretty important.