Logophilia
Logophilia: the love that
can’t stop speaking its name
PROLIXITOUS LOCUTIONS FOR PERUSAL BY LEXICOGRAPHICAL IMPLEMENTERS WHOSE PHRASEOLOGICAL PROCLIVITIES INDICATE SESQUIPEDALIAN SENSIBILITIES:
- Members of the family rosaceae would be cognate odoriferously, notwithstanding their designation by alternative appellations or sobriquets.
- The erection of bona fide boundaries (of lignaceous or petraceous composition) are essential to the maintenance of orderly vicinage.
- A surfeit suffices.
- Verity is oft disclosed in oeniphic potations.
- The application of effective impetus is best achieved when the implement designed for eradicating protuberous habiliment has been allotropically enhanced in a calorimetric fashion. (Is there an element of paranomasia here?)
- Zoetrope
- Aperient
- Pavonine
- Irrecusable
- Pluviometrical
Where might you find a pair of thole-pins? What has Archimedes to do with them?
Finally: I don’t know about the tune, but the words are royalty free: Felicitations on your nascence. Felicitations on your nascence. Felicitations on your nascence dear Insert Anyname Felicitation on your nascence.
PS: If you're really a logophile, you likely have a copy of Poplollies and Bellibones, a Celebration of Lost Words, by Susan Kelz Sperling.
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