its only words
Published 1 year, 6 months ago in My life.i went to website once where you had to list your favourite 20 words. i had a go but i couldn’t get to 20. they don’t have to be words that describe you. just words that you like the sound of or have nice associations or bring back special memories. anyway here is my small list.
gold – it can be warm and smooth. better than diamonds which I think are hard sharp and cold.
felixstowe – very special memories. and such a quaint name.
darjeeling – I know its a sort of tea or a place in india or somewhere but I just love to say the word.
silk – a word that sounds like it feels. the slippery shiny silky silkiness of silk next to your skin. a lovely feeling.
abracadabra - its just magic.
ozymandias – he was a king or something in a poem we had to learn at school. imagine giving the name to your kid and calling him ozzy for short.
leather – the smell and the feel of it.
haberdashery – the sort of shop my grandmother would go to. but where on earth did the word come from. they dont sell habers or dasherys. its a mystery.
perhaps the list reveals something about me. i am a touchy feely sort of person. but its only a list of words. what do you think. what are your favourite words.
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I have only one fav word.
Discombobulated- basicaly, when you are flumoxed, or
rattled, and just arent functioning well.
cheerio (perhaps that is the second fav word)
theshadowmaster
Not necessarily my 20 favourites but ones I like the sound of:
mystical
amaranthus
loquacious
mecurial
iguana
xenith
kruger
whence
kashmir
whisper
Bedouin
nymph
quinessential
perchance
vaporous
ammonite
priory
cyanide
nisi
jurisprudence
hey shad. dave has a good one. he says his ghast is flabbered.
Vivavoce, I see, like me, you are a fan of Arabian Nights.
It was a mystical night and as the mercurial moon reached its xenith it hung like ammonite on a purple sea. The loquacious Bedouin, wrapped in the vaporous perfume of amaranthus and the scent of kashmir, approached the nymph like an iguana, to whisper into her ear. “I have come to take you from the jurisprudence of the priory to a place from whence, perchance, you shall not return. The price is but one kruger rand.” The quinessential smile on the face of the nymph belied the taste of cyanide within as the judgment nisi became absolute.
I’ve actually never read Arabian Nights, the above paragraph isn’t really from it? either way it’s very beautiful.
My favourite word is awesome? You know why? It’s just totaly awesome!!! I also like cool … but it’s like a bad habit - keeps following the bunny around.
mmmmmm Dr fell, eloquent indeed, What a wordsmith. You almost made me believe that amaranthus had a perfume. And said so beautifully in your dulcet tones.
Mercy…..love this post ( and I love to hear Daves input now and then, Me thinks he is a tad dry in wit) What an excercise for my work addled brain, Here I was trying to unwind after a long day, and I love everyones words so far. Readings vivavoce’s words, I realised they evoke, memories, visions, senses etc. I can but try……….
infinity………grains of sand on the beach.
serendiptity……….finding something beautiful when you least expect it.
Lisianthus………….a beautiful double flower, looking all the world like a rose.
dragonfly………whimsical
pre-raphaelite ………wonderful wonderful art work
conjecture……………one eyed voters Not that I read those posts !
Philosophical………….winnierose
anthropomorphism……..what the shadowmaster is against. A dog, is a dog !
metamorphosis……….the lovely lady chaos.
whimsical………..how I like to view life.
sustenance…….coffee after excercing the brain. Mercy and viv, you get elephant stamps for coming up with 20 !!!
Naturally winnierose, I prefer the alternative name for amaranthus. No, not pigweed but the far more evocative Love-lies-bleeding.
By the way, much as I would like to conduct a similar exercise on your list I fear it is beyond even my capabilities. Nice choice of words.
This is a brilliant post!
Theshadow - Heheh…. discombobulated… Does that mean that we’re combobulated the rest of the time?
Winnierose -
*flatteredness and smiles*… but… metamorphosis?
My favourites:
Yeah - just so useful in conversations, especially on MSN to imply that you’re still listening.
Dapper - no one uses dapper anymore… it’s so charming…
Endonuclease - a biology word, pronounced “en-doe-new-clee-ays”. It just sounds so clever and elegant.
Deadicated - for poems about people that aren’t so nice…
Elaborate - as in the adjective, not the verb. Elaborate things are usually cool.
Awesome - I had to steal this one from Coolbunny… I too am guilty of using it way out of context many times throughout the day.
Paradigm - knowing this word is like getting a tattoo that says “I’ve been to uni”.
Tsarevna - I think it means princess in Russian mythology. Such a pretty word.
Venison - I just like the sound of it.
Fly - this one gets a world of use in my poems.
Maniacal - oooh, I get all tingly just thinking about this word.
Confuzzled - this one just hits the nail on the head… it sounds like confuzzlement feels.
Salad - for some reason, the word “salad” is funny. Cracked me up right in the middle of a psych lecture on schizophrenia… XD
And I have to say I’m rather fond of the names of the chemical elements, e.g. Beryllium, Rubidium, Strontium, Meitnerium, etc.
Might I hazard a guess at Dr Fell’s favourite word? Is it “naturally”?
My apologies mercy, vivavoce’s words had a theme. Try as I might I am unable to find a thread through these words. So as an afterthought, I have tried to put a verse around most of them. I hope you like it.
Night falls in Mother England
And lamps are lit in Felixstowe
The door of the haberdashery is closed
On satin and silk, ribbon and bow.
In her bedroom over the corner shop
Sipping a cup of Darjeeling
A grandmother sits in her rocking chair
With an old familiar feeling.
She looks upon the setting sun,
Orange and red and gold
And stamps her feet in her leather boots;
The nights are getting cold.
She dreams of Matilda, gone fifteen years
Far away across the water
And of Mercy, the laughing, fair-haired child
Her daughter’s beautiful daughter.
thanks Dr Fell. And indeedy, the plum coloured amaranthus is called love lies bleeding, not sure its applied to the green one though. I’ll share a piece of useless info, but I watched vasilli’s garden and a greek guy, said that you can make jam from amaranthus. That we aussies, dont put it to its full potential……..go figure.
These are my favourite words:
poignant, coypu, yes, undaunted, caress, egg, deer, sympathy, beer, retribution, arewethereyet, hospitality, home, lick, pullover, france, harmless, station, watford, intention.
Since they are my favourites no further explanation is required or indeed offered. My friends, or otherwise, may make of these what they will. To me, naturally, it is a matter of complete indifference.
dr fell i hope your bedside manner is better than this, you made me cry. my words and my memories are quite different but somehow you made it feel as if it really was me. i dont know what to say.
It was a poignant moment as the train pulled into the Watford station, I had not had any intention of returning home. As I stare from the carriage window, subconsiously I caress the pullover I that I am wearing, the pullover she knitted and my mind strays backs to France.
I had been in South America studying Coypu, when I recieved a request to be best man at my mate’s wedding in Paris. I said yes and feeling like a break from my field work looked foward to the visit and the hospitality of his family.
Thats were I met her, and my life began, until then I had not realised that I had not been living, but it was not to last. We were travelling to the alps, she was dozing, I slowed to round a bend, she stirred “arewethereyet” she murmured, then the deer ran into the road. When I came to, I found her thrown from the car , her body shattered like egg shell crushed underfoot. How could such a harmless animal destroy my life. I wanted retribution.
Undaunted by my family and friends offers of support, I chose to lick my wounds, drowning them in a haze of beer, I didn’t want their sympathy. Till I realised she would of hated that, I pulled myself together and started the long road to recovery by going home.
Excellent ! Seems there is life in nook after all, although there are probably some sideways glances being cast.
One day nooksters, shadowmaster will join in, in this play of words. That that will be the end of his solemn vow, will not, not be held against him.
However, i got this malady? out of my system in my first year of study, and decided to use plain english, and, with respect, not let word play get in the way of a good story.
cheerio’
shadowmaster
Winnierose chuckles delightedly……..Well done Dr fell, Well done Viv. Awwwww Cmon, shadowmaster………its called looking after the child within.
Elbow
Romance
Algebra
Perhaps
Endoplasmic reticulum
Climb
Articulate
Sverdrup – flow of 1 million cubic metres of water per second per square kilometer.
Clandestine
Shovel
Particular
Orange – nothing rhymes with orange
Constitution
If
Possibility
Prattle
Eccentric
Stool-pigeon
Horticulture
Membrane
Wow
Well, fossil’s list looks fairly easy, although I thought Sverdrup was a russian submarine. Let the shadow have a go at that. The possibilities of endoplasmic reticulum are tickling my taste buds already.
Favourite words
Coolness … (don’t ask me why!)
Awesome
Totally
Flabbergasted
Hey
Wicked
Bear
That will do - I’m suffering short-term memory loss …
He was an eccentric
Always wore an orange patch on his elbow
His dream was to climb
To the top of the world
He particular interests were
the endomembrane system and algebra,
perhaps endoplasmic reticulum
would drive him insane,
His clandestine romance with Harald Sverdrup
sent his heart all a flutter
thinks “I can’t articulate my feelings
just sit here like a stool-pidgeon and prattle away”,
Harald held his hand tightly
said “I’m sick of the ocean,
a change to horticulture
is what I might need”,
“My constitution is strong
fresh air, plants and a shovel
the possiblity that you’ll join me
Wow, it would just make me day”.
Bugger, missed 2 words!!!!
added verse
They drove off into the sunset
kilometer after kilmometer
discussing string theory
1-brane is a string and 2-brane a membrane.
eggs
debacle
shenanigan
soiree
fork
flag
pantaloon
loins
cuddle
heebie jeebies
diabolical
cookie
obtruse
concur
smooooth
blasphemy
paradox
mexcited (fine i made that one up)
embellish
sparkly
thats all my brain can think of right now…
over to you Doc
hang on viva this is my post. i think you and dr fell are very clever, especially dr fell, its like he can see into my mind. thank you viva for replying to my post but me and dave are having a go at this one. it may take a little time and looking in dictionaries and that but we doing it. thanks to jess and winnierose and all the others. isnt verse supposed to rhyme or something. i know ozymandias did.
fav words
rainbow
cool
mouth watering
scrummy
pelican
outback
sidekick
devilsown
voodoo
tracking
wayout
grubby
skymessy
convictmate
just a few we use in filming our day
cosmological, perceived, illogical, agnostic, treacherous, irrational, precise, flattening, irreverent, mercedes, zoologist, enzyme, teachable, ambidextrous, yacht. Just cause they sound good.