Tuesday, September 18, 2012

My word!

Does a word ever pop into your head for no reason that you can fathom other than the sheer beauty of the sound of it?

What I’m saying is, sometimes a word pops into my head for no reason that I can fathom other than the sheer beauty of the sound of it.

Yesterday, out of the blue, these were the words:

compendium
duplicitous
mahogany
lothario
antimacassar
pendulum

I can hardly wait to discover what words will find me today.

4 comments:

  1. Some words do indeed sound nice without reference to their meaning. I think of...
    mellifluous
    marshmallow
    slippery
    incandescenr
    burgeoning
    whippersnapper (i.e. Snowbrush)
    & nincompoop...
    So no - you are not insane. There are others who like to chew on words just because of the way they sound.

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  2. No accident surely. It was that compendium of duplicitous, mahogany-hued lotharios who got grease all over your antimacassars when cleaning their clock pendulums.

    Happens all the time.

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  3. I like the words onomatopoeia, obsequious, diaphanous, Cassiopeia and quintessential.
    Always have, always will.

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  4. I agree with you about loving the sound of words, but being a synesthete, I also love their colors. You say those words came out of the blue, but of those words, only the word "lothario" is blue.

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<b>Always true to you, darlin’, in my fashion</b>

We are bombarded daily by abbreviations in everyday life, abbreviations that are never explained, only assumed to be understood by everyone...