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Intriguing Words – 17th April 2009
With the weekend approaching fast and many people getting in the partying mood here are a few of my favourite drink related words… great for trivia at the Friday night party… or for a hangover the next morning. So if … Continue reading
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Intriguing Words – 4th September 2008
Everyone is afraid of something… there is even a fear of phobias! Fear of… phobia Airplanes aeronausiphobia Animals zoophobia Blood hematophobia, hemophobia, hemaphobia … Continue reading
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Intriguing Words – 9th May 2008
We all have to eat! Abligurition spending lavishly on food and drink Accubation lying down at meals Ambigu dinner in which the various courses are served together Antepast … Continue reading
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Poem of the Day – 8th May 2008
Prophecy of Celtic Ancients Revisited Clarions sound out aloud in the Hibernian far-off hills calm brass voices melodiously sound of a reborn past’s future will; when tides turning around— their crested pearls still and steady wash back onto the forgotten … Continue reading
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Intriguing Words – 5th May 2008
For this ‘Intriguing words’ I would like to look at manias… in particular “word manias”: Coprolalomania the use of foul language Graphomania morbid desire for writing Hellenomania using cumbersome … Continue reading
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Intriguing Words – 4th May 2008
Here are some intriguing words I felt I wanted to share! For the first post from “Intriguing Words” I have chosen to list the literary forms of fortune-telling: Literary Divination Name Divination By… Bilbliomancy … Continue reading
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Poem of the Day – 2nd May 2008
This before when becomes. All of me is still now, when I have been waiting for this moment as if it were the onset of a magnificent storm, that would change my world in strangest ways? and being born, your … Continue reading
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Poem of the Day – 11th April 2008
Stalingrad ‘42 You bound a book, carefully affixing each page together with bones and gave it a cover of human flesh, the ink was more vermilion than the bloodshed of regiments of women with their infants still in their arms. … Continue reading
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