words i love (an ever-expanding, randomly updated list)
May 12, 2008
bleat
bungle
co-morbidity
decoy
dusted*
epoxy
expunge*
glad-hand
grossulin
hairshirt
hornet
indecent
knuckle
lavaliere
ligature
linguist
lividity
oboe
olivine
peal*
pejorative
pharmacovigilence*
placebo*
pliant
polytechnic
rosin
specimen
stigma
supplicant
vole
*denotes new item(s) on list
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If you don’t credit Dana (by using her full name and preferably by linking back to the appropriate post) for however you copy, distribute, transmit or adapt her words, you are being bad. And naughty. And she will have her servant monkeys hunt you down and cut your hands off so you can never copy, distribute, transmit or adapt anyone’s work again and call it your own.
(Unless, of course, you were to use your butt cheeks to manipulate your keyboard with the copying, distributing, transmitting, adapting and whatnot, but Dana fortunately has only met one person whose butt cheeks are that talented. He could play a major third on a piano using nothing but his ass. She kids you not.).
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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???
Nice guess, but no. That’s not what it has to do with. It’s actually less cool than what you 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 …
PDW, my vocabulary is terrible. Why do you think I make lists of words?
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.)
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.
I love glad-hand. That is now my all-time favorite word.
an arabesque eclectic diversity of syllabubbles, favourite words,
Paul, I favor sounds over meanings or even connotations.
“nut” is one of my favorite words.
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.
UL, olivine is sexy, isn’t it?
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!
oooooh “hairshirt” precisely!
