[Magdalen] the sound of words

Georgia DuBose gdubose at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 05:27:32 UTC 2015


Wonderful, rarely used word: vouchsafe

Used more often, equally wonderful: abide.

Georgia+

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
> In anther post sistah Jay mentioned that her father was on a 'seaplane
> tender' during WWII. After reading that, I kept saying it over and
> over...and still am, simply because 'seaplane tender' sounds amazing to me.
> Some words do that to me, and most are Native American words.
>
> Locally we have the Osawatomie split, in Kansas, where tornadoes apparently
> decide to go north or south. Back home, on da rench, out past 53, was an
> uprising of rock known as Fabiola Bluff.
>
> I love some medical words, too. Words like epistaxis, meaning nosebleed.
> Spasmotic. Pleural.
>
> The best word ever, though, is Saskatchewan.  (Can't stop lovin' that word
> of mine...)
>
> Grace and peace,
> brud


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