Words surround us in our world. Modern world is so based on literacy. I often wonder how it feels for my children to gradually feel immersion in the words of society as their reading skills develop. For items and signs and miscellaneous to go from jumbled letters to cohesive information.
How I love words. Always was great at spelling. And as someone who watched little TV as a child, I read. Extensively. Like, Jane Eyre at age 11. Nope, didnt understand Rochester's affair and the wife on the roof thing....
As a poetry activity I was working on it asked me to list and maintain a list of words I like. Funny how some words roll and resonate on our tongues, while others trip as they stumble out of our mouths.
Words I love the sound of that come to mind right now....
AQUIESCE SOLILOQUY CRYSTALLINE ASININE PEON
PARTAKE ARTIFICE HAPPENSTANCE APROPOS PERCHANCE
AQUILINE TURQUOISE ERSTWHILE CRUSTACEAN F**K (sorry, it just is)
VERMILLION DIAPHANOUS LITHE MELLIFLUOUS
MONGREL PLETHORA CHARD SURREPTITIOUS
Those are just the ones that pop to mind.... funny. Weird. How do we use them? The irony? I would use some of these in day to day. Peon is a favorite when referring (somewhat rudely) to those who fail to meet my intelligence standards (snotty, I know!). Then there is lithe... ah, bodies. Perchance, I just plain like. Diaphanous is a fabric that flows just so, like that of lingerie, wrapping you in delicate luxury. Plethora, there are always a plethora of choices at each corner we come to. Asinine? Who doesnt think there are those who give this type of answer to a question you ask and you'd like to throttle them?? How I wish I could use mellifluous regularly, it sounds as it means.... and crystalline is a winter snow word for those sunny sparkly snow days. Aquiline noses, and the artifices we women pursue with makeup daily....
Ah, words. The beauty of writing, saying, playing.
