Showing posts with label Words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Words. Show all posts

Saturday, 8 January 2011

Language Timothy!

Lovely Man and I were just sitting watching a film this evening, well he was watching I was half watching.  I'm not good a TV, I'm easily distracted - by the laptop, my own thoughts, half finished paintings in the studio, an idea for a purse design, or some other whimsy that pops into my head.  Suddenly at end of one of the short clips, before the adverts, he announced "Well that is a dichotomy isn't it?"  I thought for a moment.  I liked the feel of the word, on my tongue, in my head, I repeated it several times to myself and then declared "I like that word"!  I do.   I love words, the English language.  I love the feel of them, the sound of them and the pictures that they conjure up in our mind.  I love how, with the right word, or a different word to the norm, you can make a sentence, even a whole story sound so much more interesting.  Would you believe I have a huge dictionary at the side of the bed, and sometimes when I have a mind to, I like to pick it up and wander through it to see what I can find before I go to sleep?  My good friend, Lorrie, loves words.  My favorite word from Lorrie was 'propensity'.  So now I have two.  Propensity and Dichotomy.  I think I will start another challenge for myself, to find a new word that I like the feel of and use it in a blog post each week!   Ha ha! Is there anyone else out there that loves words?