Friday, February 16, 2007
Tuckles
By jove, I think I've got it! As I was thinking about my idea for a Dave Matthews Band compilation album of romantic songs and the possible marketing doodads to go with it, the thought occurred that the chocolates could be called "Tuckles." Tuckle is one of the best made-up words I've ever heard. It's found in DMB's song "When the World Ends." Doesn't tuckle just sound like comfort food?
Labels: chocolate, dave matthews band, dmb, songs, tuckles, word
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Found Poem
A few months ago at one of my writers group meetings, we did an activity that led to the finding of a found poem. There were only two of us at the meeting, so we couldn't see what everyone else would've come up with. The activity involved taking a couple of photocopied pages from a novel and crossing out the vast majority of the words on the pages, keeping only that which struck our fancy. I wasn't very good at the activity, as I had trouble wrapping my head around the thing, but here's what I came up with that was keepable:
"A moment grasped is the seed that is always left over."
"A moment grasped is the seed that is always left over."
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Morganatic
I was flipping through my dictionary, making sure mythologize was truly a word, when I came across this gem:
which means "of, relating to, or being a marriage between a member of a royal or noble family and a person of inferior rank in which the rank of the inferior partner remains unchanged, and the children of the marriage do not succeed to the titles, fiefs, or entailed property of higher rank." (Merriam-Webster's Colliegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition)
I did not know such a thing could be summed up in just one word - and quite an interesting word at that.
Morganatic
which means "of, relating to, or being a marriage between a member of a royal or noble family and a person of inferior rank in which the rank of the inferior partner remains unchanged, and the children of the marriage do not succeed to the titles, fiefs, or entailed property of higher rank." (Merriam-Webster's Colliegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition)
I did not know such a thing could be summed up in just one word - and quite an interesting word at that.
Labels: dictionary, myth, word
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Of Prigs & Popinjays
My brother called last night. During our conversation, he used the word "prig." What an incredibly good word. Four letters say it all. Even without knowing the meaning, you can probably picture a person who is a prig.
My brother found some related words on the internet - coxcomb, fop and popinjay. Old words, but so full of character that they're going to have to make their way into my writing sometime. For definitions, head over to Dictionary.com, but be careful. You might get lost, especially if you're a word junkie like I am.
My brother found some related words on the internet - coxcomb, fop and popinjay. Old words, but so full of character that they're going to have to make their way into my writing sometime. For definitions, head over to Dictionary.com, but be careful. You might get lost, especially if you're a word junkie like I am.
Labels: brother, dictionary, word
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Glio
One mighty fine thing about blogging is that people can continue to comment on the archived stuff, so something you think no one's ever going to look at again gets looked at again. Back on September 17, 2006, I posted on Made-up Words, one of those words being "glio." A new potential definition for this word just arrived. Have a look-see and take a stab at your own definition if you're feeling particularly poetic.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Made-up Words
If the President can be The Decider and misunderestimate situations, then I can make up words too. There's Neezuls, which was my placeholder name for this blog, 'til I came up with the much more appropriate Filter & Splice. This morning, in that dusty state between dreaming and waking, the word "glio" came to me. I looked in my dictionary. It isn't a word on its own, although a couple of words - gliobastoma & glioma - start with it. They have to do with glial cells. If "glio" was a word on its own, how would you define it?
Labels: dictionary, filter, george w. bush, glio, splice, word
