Overused/ Underused Words

[UnderYourSpell]

Titles .... that's my downfall I see some wonderful 'capture you before you even read the poem' titles and mine are as dull as ditch water.

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Titles .... that's my downfall I see some wonderful 'capture you before you even read the poem' titles and mine are as dull as ditch water.

Same for me. A couple are OK. I start out with a title and that's usually what sticks. Really only need the working title for my notebooks - could give it some thought before I submit.

 

[ishtat]

In my first, maybe second post on this board I used the word miasma and was vigorously derided for it .

One of my favourite unused words is emmets which is a west of England dialect word for ants.

James Orchard Halliwell produced a dictionary of archaic words in 1847 which I often dip into - it's fascinating.

Some words were archaic and fell into disuse but then re-emerged the best known perhaps being the word maybe

 

[UnderYourSpell]

In my first, maybe second post on this board I used the word miasma and was vigorously derided for it .

One of my favourite unused words is emmets which is a west of England dialect word for ants.

James Orchard Halliwell produced a dictionary of archaic words in 1847 which I often dip into - it's fascinating.

Some words were archaic and fell into disuse but then re-emerged the best known perhaps being the word maybe

Not just a West of England word I'm in the East and know it!
There are some wonderful Norfolk (UK) dialect words i.e dodderman for snail, bishy barnabee for ladybird, hedgepig for hedgehog, loke for lane, I could write a whole poem using Norfolk dialect and no-one would know what I was saying!

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Not just a West of England word I'm in the East and know it!
There are some wonderful Norfolk (UK) dialect words i.e dodderman for snail, bishy barnabee for ladybird, hedgepig for hedgehog, loke for lane, I could write a whole poem using Norfolk dialect and no-one would know what I was saying!

And I'm used to ladybug for ladybird, ofter porcupine for hedgehog (might be different species, but same sort of animal).

 

[UnderYourSpell]

And I'm used to ladybug for ladybird, ofter porcupine for hedgehog (might be different species, but same sort of animal).

A porcupine is huge a hedgehog is tiny in comparison only similarity is they both have spines!

 

[EroticOrogeny]

A porcupine is huge a hedgehog is tiny in comparison only similarity is they both have spines!

I looked a little on Wikipedia and they are different, but sometimes hedgehog is used to refer to porcupines. European porcupine is bigger than North American, and there are no hedgehogs native to North America now.
Amazing what odd facts we can pick up!

 

[UnderYourSpell]

We are encouraged to attract hedgehogs to the garden (very handy for eating slugs and snails) but after having a dog barely 14 inches tall that would kill anything that moved I've learnt to barricade them out, which is a great shame. One night I heard this enormous racket in the front garden and when I investigated found two hedgehogs mating ..... hope the noise indicated enjoyment lol

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

I looked a little on Wikipedia and they are different, but sometimes hedgehog is used to refer to porcupines. European porcupine is bigger than North American, and there are no hedgehogs native to North America now.
Amazing what odd facts we can pick up!

Did you know that's why we have Groundhog Day? Groundhog Day is based on a German tradition of declaring if a badger or hedgehog sees its shadow on Candlemas, there will be six more weeks of winter. The abundant groundhogs substituted for badgers and European hedgehogs in the tradition in Pennsylvania and Groundhog Day was born.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Did you know that's why we have Groundhog Day? Groundhog Day is based on a German tradition of declaring if a badger or hedgehog sees its shadow on Candlemas, there will be six more weeks of winter. The abundant groundhogs substituted for badgers and European hedgehogs in the tradition in Pennsylvania and Groundhog Day was born.

I'd never heard of Groundhog Day until I saw the film. You do seem to have 'days' for everything under the sun. I now pronounce this Toe Nail Cutting Day participate amongst your friends and family sell cookies door to door to raise funds for the clippers. Do you still let kids sell things door to door? We used to have Bob a Job weeks where Boy Scouts used to knock on stranger's doors offering to do any job for a bob (one shilling in old money) too dangerous these days though

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

I'd never heard of Groundhog Day until I saw the film. You do seem to have 'days' for everything under the sun. I now pronounce this Toe Nail Cutting Day participate amongst your friends and family sell cookies door to door to raise funds for the clippers. Do you still let kids sell things door to door? We used to have Bob a Job weeks where Boy Scouts used to knock on stranger's doors offering to do any job for a bob (one shilling in old money) too dangerous these days though

How about toe nail painting? National Toenail Painting Day Feb 3rd

 

[EroticOrogeny]

I'd never heard of Groundhog Day until I saw the film. You do seem to have 'days' for everything under the sun. I now pronounce this Toe Nail Cutting Day participate amongst your friends and family sell cookies door to door to raise funds for the clippers. Do you still let kids sell things door to door? We used to have Bob a Job weeks where Boy Scouts used to knock on stranger's doors offering to do any job for a bob (one shilling in old money) too dangerous these days though

That was a funny movie
As a boy scout we used to have paper drives where a truck (driven my a scoutmaster or some adult) would drive along and we'd pick up the bundled newspapers people had put out - we'd distribute fliers door to door a week or so before.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

How about toe nail painting? National Toenail Painting Day Feb 3rd

Hey that would be good just right for my birthday a couple of days later

 

[butters]

breathe - looking back through some pieces i find it crops up all over the place. maybe i'm reminding myself to do it. it helps to breathe, dinnit?



words that are triple choc fudge chip to my ears.... hmm...

illicit

blasphemous

deliquesce

chryselephantine

tesselate



sigh, and so many more

 

[UnderYourSpell]

For the actual feel of a word as it rolls off the tongue I would say Impotent is close to perfect. One word I don't use is Indubitably (hope that's spelt right my spell checkers says it's ok) for the simple reason I can't say it! I've tried but I always trip over the 'tably' at the end

 

[EroticOrogeny]

For the actual feel of a word as it rolls off the tongue I would say Impotent is close to perfect. One word I don't use is Indubitably (hope that's spelt right my spell checkers says it's ok) for the simple reason I can't say it! I've tried but I always trip over the 'tably' at the end

Indubitable. Almost sounds like a name for a WW I British battleship (Indomitable, Invincible, Indefatigable, there were a lot more it seems but I've forgotten them. Enough of 'em so that the German's retreated at Jutland and were bottled up in the Baltic.)

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Indubitable. Almost sounds like a name for a WW I British battleship (Indomitable, Invincible, Indefatigable, there were a lot more it seems but I've forgotten them. Enough of 'em so that the German's retreated at Jutland and were bottled up in the Baltic.)

Lol @ bottled up in the Baltic ........ what a great title now go and write it!

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Lol @ bottled up in the Baltic ........ what a great title now go and write it!

and dread naught ?

 

[UnderYourSpell]

and dread naught ?

don't baffle me with boys toys stuff

 

[EroticOrogeny]

don't baffle me with boys toys stuff

Battleships are pretty big toys!
I've always liked the ring of Scapa Flow, the British North Sea naval station.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Battleships are pretty big toys!
I've always liked the ring of Scapa Flow, the British North Sea naval station.

It's the British way of talking (understating) and very hard to explain lol

 

[bflagsst]

Rotal but not Scrotal

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Now I've got a few lines rattling around in my head about the Battle of Jutland. Now if I can slip in a Survivor trigger ...

 

[DeepAsleep]

All three of these words:

Acquiescent, surreptitious, insouciant

...show up in this poem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDKW9RIHXq0

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Now I've got a few lines rattling around in my head about the Battle of Jutland. Now if I can slip in a Survivor trigger ...

armoured car ?!!