It's been a while, eh? I got mentally et up by the Intro to Statistics class that I took over the summer semester-- and got an A in (shining knuckles on shirt)-- but I also have been eschewing computing outside of work because of a worker's comp claim for tendonitis... and meanwhile there is so much horror and bloodshed in the daily headlines (both in the Mid East and in Oakland) that I can't quite come up with a response. The world leaves me kind of speechless these days.
So I've been reading Jane Hirshfield's "Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry," and she recommends getting inspiration from reading word origins. Lucky me, I'm also supposed to be studying for the GRE, so I spent some time last night with my GRE vocab list and the dictionary. I'm sure you know what these mean but I would just like to list a few words that are great. To say, at least.
Vermilion
Zephyr
Peatmoss
Turf (the Russian for "peatmoss" is "torf" - and I think that is a dandy word too)
Antechamber
Troubador
Smock
Intrinsic
Snipe
Estuary
Shoehorn
Pontoon
Cessation
Soupspoon
Currycomb
Shellac
Sorrel
Muslin
Dreadnaught
Pants
...That's enough of that.
