MISNOMERS

You start a company to make it go,

It fails, and so you drop it;

It didn't go but yet has gone, and so

You wind it up to stop it.

Stocks in your garden you will surely find

By want of rain are slaughtered;

Yet many stocks have languished and declined

Because they have been watered.

Suppose a company for brewing beer

Should come to a cessation—

That is—"dry up" 'tis curious to hear

It's called "in liquidation."