Back to school...

Time for a few more wacky words, collected as I signed in to leave comments hither and thither over the summer:
- sickma - as in, "I can't go to school today, I'm sickma!"
- essemic - as in, "What's wrong?  You have essemic ache?"
- vensol, flahsh - as in, "Take some Vensol; you'll feel better in a flahsh."
- moush - as in, "The large apple placed on top of her egg salad sandwich produced moush."
- adwrized - as in, "I adwrized you to get your homework done last night, but no-o-o-o...!"
- goerai - as in, "The best-laid plans of mice and men oft goerai."

 Have a great first day!

Word Potential

I continue my collection of wacky words from signing in to comment on blogs etc.  Here are a few more to ponder over the weekend:

• anter - what a deer wears?
• achesti - Dolly P?
• obist - short for 'obistuary'? ;-)
• deccle - a form of printed picture?
• hydryorr - elevated clothesline?
• "Well exusyci!" - What Steve M might say?
• minap - 15 minutes of zzzzzzzzs
• frophin - ?
• mutner - a turn-coat on the Bounty
• 'Porga' and Bess?
• prast - what past + present equals?
• urneap - a pile of water jars?
• tanter - a new step in equine dressage?

As always, to be continued....  :-)

Even More "Funky" Words

Here are some of the latest additions to my "collection", gleaned from my recent commenting on other people's blogs:

• badede -- ba-dum-pum!
• salin -- perhaps not as salty as saline?
• wisess -- a female wisor?
• glyrapy -- therapy for one's 'gly'?
• tophsp! -- Bless you!
• thedid -- the answer to, "Who let the dogs out?"
• hobfe -- ?
• shtsp -- the phonetic for 'chutzpah'?
• "Suaddat?" you ask.  I don't know!
• latess -- as in, 'the latess thing'?
• actoriv -- an active actor?
• unluodhi -- as in 'not in Lodi again'?
• noncodin -- without codeine?
• rescom -- 'residual communications'?
• orchi -- more than one orca?

What kind of "words" do you find when you sign off your comments?

More Funky "Words"

A couple of weeks ago,  I posted some of the "words" I had to use for security reasons when making blog comments.  Since then, I've collected some more.  Take a look at these:

• collying -- like 'cuddling' with a twist?  Or maybe the practice of being a collie?  
• nesseriv -- as in "Is that absolutely nesseriv?"  :-)
• cohot -- perhaps...being hot together? ;-)
• suense -- such as, "This pattern doesn't make suense!"
• chies -- Bet you can't eat just one!
• manimpl -- She wore a manipl to keep her neck and shoulders warm.
• recluth -- A recluse with a lisp?
• fersings -- What wine does when it's been fermenting too long...?
• coace -- You can't coace me into taking that job!
• repro -- an abbreviation for 'reproduction'?
• hoedic -- frantically turning over the soil in the garden?
• ersabias -- "Teddy bears are her favourite toy; you'd have to say she has an ersabias..."!
• misalcal -- when your sums don't add up?
• snesp -- Gesundheit!
• palsell -- perhaps some sort of palsy?
• mishlyll -- ?
• bostr -- the 'mister' in charge?
• impre -- short for 'impression'?
• shoto -- when your camera won't work any more...

The things one thinks about when winter keeps one indoors, eh?

Another person who loves words is the actor, John Lithgow.  If you haven't seen his PBS interview with Bill Moyers for his program, Journal, get yourself a cuppa, sit back, and enjoy!

Word Play


I can't remember not reading.  I memorized a little book about children who had baby chicks, sometime around age 4, and began to truly read, I think, not long after that.  Like me, my children were both reading at age 5 -- in large part, apparently, because they were read to.  Regardless,  we three love words.  My son memorizes them in scripts form, and uses them to create lyrics for the music he plays on his electric guitar(s).  My daughter writes, as do I.  She is yet unpublished; I've been published -- a little.  And...I read a book (or so) a week, eking out time when I am eating, knitting, listening to music or walking (hey, I live alone; I don't read when I'm eating with company).

In the past few weeks, a preacher I enjoy has done some sermons on the power of words -- our words, as well as the Word of God.  My early morning devotional reading has been taken up with Dallas Willard's  Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God (emphasis mine).

A recent podcast, "Book Lust", featured interviewer Nancy Pearl talking with wordsmith, Anu Garg, whose blog and his word-a-day posts have become very popular.  He talked not only about his love of words, but the origin and history of language(s).  I learned, to my fascination, that my native tongue -- English -- and his -- Hindi -- actually stem from the same ancient root -- 5,000 years old -- and even have some words in common!

Despite the fact that modern technology has butchered grammar and spelling (just ask Lynne Truss), language is here to stay; the way to get ahead in this communications-mad world is to possess a deep and rich vocabulary, along with a sense of humour and a lively imagination.  I mention the latter because I've become quite captivated by the little made-up "words" used for 'security' when one posts to a blog -- so much so, that this week I collected the ones I was asked to type for my postings.

Gentle Readers, if these were to be incorporated into our daily English language, what do you think they'd mean?

• cophow - or should it be 'co-phow', as in 'co-worker to a phow'?
• avingst - as in, perhaps, "Avingst ye, me hearties!" in the next production of Pirates of the Caribbean?
• imalie - or.."Imalie" -- a pretty name for a new baby girl?
• antibrea - are you pro- or anti-brea?  ;-)
• parco - an abbreviation for 'par for the course' that one can use when sending a text message?
• diontin - a new over-the-counter cold remedy?
• colessne - ??
• phougene - or..."Phougene", twin brother of Eugene?

and last, but not least...

• flyro - a new short-hop commuter airline service?  "GO with Flyro, and get there on time!"

I'd love to hear what you come up with...