ROOTS! Now that is a good word. From Old English, from Old Norse, the root of root is wryt...yummy huh? Root is a noun and a verb; trees and teeth have roots. Families have roots. Pigs root. People root around and often root for the home team. I bet you didn't know that the lowest tone of a chord when the tones are arranged in ascending thirds is a root (as C in a C minor chord).
How about PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE? Now that is a word. Don't you just love how it plays in your mouth and gets your tongue all juiced up? I don't know why there are no children's poems or riddles with phosphatidylcholine in them. It is every bit as fun to say as "Mary Mary, Quite Contrary" and much more interesting than a Snuffleupagus!
What about SNICKERDOODLE? It doesn't tickle my toes like abaculus but it is a jolly word. ABACULUS, now that word should never be spelled our in whole letters but should be written with dots, small broken pieces of letters, grout optional.
HAMULUS rhymes with abaculus but sounds better in pig latin; amulushay, but the hook is when would you use both words in a poem?
RELINQUISH...another good sound but not an action that most of us choose freely, unless its to relinquish a hated chore or paying bills. I would gladly relinquish my daily dose of phoshatidylcholine and finishing the abaculus with the hamulus but I absolutely will not relinquich my snickerdoodle!
Another word, a word that opens the door...and several windows...on many more juicier words and concepts is epistemology! Can you just feel the goose bumps building up your back?
EPISTEMOLOGY! What makes justified beliefs justified? Here come some excellent words, folks, hold on: DEONTOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION! CONTEXTUALIST! TRIPARTITE!
Is it possible that there is deontological justification for daily doses of phosphatidylcholine? Would that constitute deontic logic? Well...hmm..maybe non-deontic logic, which is much more fun to say anyway!
A word that confuses me is TREE! A very inappropriate word for such beautiful beings. The word tree is so tiny and all above the line! No g's or j's, no p's or y's. No roots or wryts and the tallest letter is a t which isn't even as high as l's or f's. Tree will just not do...let's make up a new word for tree. Not a word for boot tree or saddle tree or family tree (whew, talk about roots!). Well, I'm up a tree on this one...any ideas?
Do you have a favorite word? A word you use in everyday conversation? What about "contemporary" or "random" or "serendipitous"? Consequently? Pursuant...eww, that's a precocious word!
Pray tell...share with us your favorite word and why you like it! But be careful, remember what Dennis Leary says about words..."you never know who's mouth they've been in!"
