14 Responses to “words i love (an ever-expanding, randomly updated list)”  

1. 1 chiefbiscuit on November 18, 2007 said:

   I love hornet. And lavaliere - I just have to go look that one up … I wonder, has it got something to do with lovely volcanoes??? :)

2. 2 Ceridwen on November 18, 2007 said:

   Nice guess, but no. That’s not what it has to do with. It’s actually less cool than what you said.

3. 3 polkadotwitch on November 20, 2007 said:

   all i know about lavaliere is that it’s in a song in a musical, but i can’t remember which one? annie? oliver?

   anyway, i have a list like this somewhere in my poetry ideas folder. well, it’s not like this, exactly. it’s far less intellectual. things like ship-shape and splotch.

   i am envious of your vocabulary! i must do something to exercise mine …

4. 4 Ceridwen on November 20, 2007 said:

   PDW, my vocabulary is terrible. Why do you think I make lists of words?

5. 5 Ceridwen on November 20, 2007 said:

   Oh, glissando ~ musical term, right? Like a scale but slidier and with less distinction between the individual notes.

   I saw T.C. Boyle read last year at Tomales Bay Writers’ Workshops. He was also filmed there for some program. I have no idea where the program was aired, but if you happen to see it and you see Boyle looking away to his left over and over, he’s looking at me. Yup. I was there peeking my head into the room where he was being filmed, and he looked at me several times. (Probably not because I am so charming as I like to think, but rather because I was being a but of a distraction.)

6. 6 mariacristina on November 20, 2007 said:

   I learned a new one reading Drop City by TC Boyle. He’s amazing. I have to keep a pad near by and write down all the new words I pick up from his unique style. Here’s the word: glissando, as in the dogs’ high-pitched glissando.

7. 7 thegirlwho on November 20, 2007 said:

   I love glad-hand. That is now my all-time favorite word.

8. 8 Paul Squires on November 21, 2007 said:

   an arabesque eclectic diversity of syllabubbles, favourite words,

9. 9 Ceridwen on November 21, 2007 said:

   Paul, I favor sounds over meanings or even connotations.

10. 10 Poet With a Day Job on November 21, 2007 said:

    “nut” is one of my favorite words.

11. 11 UL on November 21, 2007 said:

    bungle and olivine jumped out at me, I learnt quite a few new words from this list, adding on to my vocabulary which is pretty low, thank you.

12. 12 Ceridwen on November 21, 2007 said:

    UL, olivine is sexy, isn’t it?

13. 13 thordora on November 22, 2007 said:

    I love “lurk” say it slowly, happily, oddly, it’s just FUN.

    also love:
    ubiquitous
    aporia
    plump

    I have many. Just can’t think of all right now. :)

    Gobble Gobble!

14. 14 Clare on November 24, 2007 said:

    oooooh “hairshirt” precisely!

    :D

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