Oxford Dictionary will provide you with a word that came into the being the year of your birth

1953
Your OED birthday word is: 
frenemy, n.
Meaning: A person with whom one is friendly, despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry; a person who combines the characteristics of a friend and an enemy.
See the entry in the OED to see a quotation of its first-known usage

Random words for the week

A few words that have hung with me throughout the week. Some I'd like to shake...

• provisional
• bi-partisan
• hour
• smell
• forever
• power
• deadlock
• diet
• service
• litter
• dinner
• sludge
• climate
• conversion
• management

Save The Words!

If you are a lover of words... this post is for you!

My wife sent me this link to a NPR story about saving dying words.   An Intellectually Locupletative Promotion: A Site Trying To Save Dying Words    or go directly to  the site itself:  Save The Words.

Unconscious Mutterings Week 371

You say, I think....

• 1.Detective :: dick
• 2.Bangs :: hair
• 3.Consultant :: PR
• 4.Puzzle :: mania
• 5.Learn :: curious
• 6.Necklace :: pendent
• 7.184 ::  even numbers
• 8.Stimulation :: sims
• 9.Layered :: cakes
• 10.Police :: department

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New to me this week

Couple of words that are new to me this week that I like…

• Nascent- the process of being born or developing. Budding, emerging, promising, blossoming, hopeful, you get the picture. I really like this word.
• Slake- to quench or satisfy. Quench is probably one of those overused words in poetry- I see myself using this at some point.

The liberation of words...

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.  ~ Eli Khamaroy

Someone asked me if this was a good thing.... liberating words from rigid definition. What do you think? Any words out there you think need to be liberated?

 

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Subliminal Mutterings - week 316

Subliminal Mutterings

[I've missed several weeks of this, sigh.  So spank me!]

You say.... I think:

Be mine :: valentine

Ecstatic :: hoppingly happy

Orderly :: quiet

Sebastian :: butler

Sore :: ouie

Don’t need :: unnecessary

Rockstar :: Springsteen

Tinfoil :: hat

Addiction :: habit

Where? :: there

 

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Likes and Dislikes

I've been spending a lot of time writing this weekend and as words have flown in and out of my my head I've been naming them good words and bad words. Of course the good and bad designations are nothing more then reflections of my personal likes and dislikes.So tonight I thought I'd list a few words that tickle my fancy and some that I simply do not care for.  In some instances it's that sound of the words that I like or dislike. In other, I'm fascinated by some aspect of the word, its meaning, etymology, etc. So without further ado, I give you some of my likes and dislikes from our language.

Likes	Dislikes
elliptical	stutter
exude	heir
puce	vomit
ubiquitous	mayonnaise
pathogen	infomercial
explicit	Raspberry
irascible	irksome
prevaricate	bile
coetaneous	foil
awe	sideburn
toasty	lash
vulnerable	dwarf
arbitrary	mumble
immune	pungent
crumpet	snub
oscillate	squeal
Formica	liquefy
capsulate	winch

 

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Word Clouds from four of my poems selected at random

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This was produced on Wordie. I found it via Christine Klocek-Lim's site. I put four of my poems selected at random and dropped them into the gadget for generating “word clouds” from text. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Pretty cool.

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It's In The Mail..... almost

 The procrastination is over.  I've readied my submission to an annual review that I am especially fond of.  This will be my third year of submission. The first year - zing I was accepted. Last year nada. So I'm trying to remain hopeful that this years material has something that will stick. Everything all done up and stamped. Just need to drop it in the mail in the morning.

For some reason I always feel good when I submit to this review. I don't know why, I just do. Anyone feel that way about any place in particular that you send your work?

Word List:

A new year calls for a new word list. I decided this on the way home from the office tonight.  I sometimes get away from my list and it really is sad, because having a list of uniquely interesting words at my finder tips often will spark something. That's just a side benefit. What I rely on the list for is to get me away from using the same words often when I'm writing. If I use it, I cross it off my list. The idea is to keep adding words even as I subtract them.

Feeling kind of yuckie tonight. Almost like I'm trying to come down with something. Headache and mussels ache. I think I'll try and read a while, if my eyes and my head will cooperate.

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Unconscious Mutterings Week 205

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Word & Thought Associations  
 

here's mine:

 

Sleepy :: Tired

Thanksgiving :: Parade

Fifteen :: minutes

Authority :: Government

Bangs :: uneven

Curled :: up and died

Young man ::

Surprised :: Startled

Mistake :: Error

Handle it :: Deal with it

Unconscious Mutterings Week 303

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Word & Thought Associations

here's mine:



Please stop :: quit
Move over :: outta my way
Sweet as :: candy corn
Bet :: gamble
Mad about :: you
It’s over :: split-up
Intend to :: plan
Blame :: game
Jefferson :: airplane
Heartless :: bitch

Unconscious Mutterings week 302

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Word & Thought Associations

here's mine:

 

Coverage :: full

Cynical :: attitude

Gust :: wind

Improvised :: poor

V :: victory

Guests :: lecturer

Brutal :: torture

Grant :: funding

Pull :: drag

Streaming :: vegetables

 

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The Word for the Week is Change!

There is definitely a change in the air this weekend. Perhaps that's a good omen with Tuesday being election day. Yesterday morning I awoke to a dense fog that hung well above the ground.  It was reminiscent of some of those civil war pictures you see of battlefields.  Then, this morning I want out to make a diet coke run and the geese had returned to the ball field across the street. It's always exciting to see them back. It amazes me that they show up here every year.

Time for Unconscious Mutterings Week 301

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Word & Thought Associations

here's mine:

In love :: Glowing

Be my guest :: Go ahead make my day

Number one :: Numero Uno

Swallowed whole :: Gulped

50 percent :: Gridlock

Made in :: Japan

Supplement :: Dietary

Right for :: Perfect

Endless :: Night

Ceramic :: Pottery

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Unconscious Mutterings Week 300

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Word & Thought Associations

here's mine:

 

Contemplate :: The Thinker

In the house :: Doctor

Classical :: Music

Quest :: Johnny

Best friend :: rare companion

1991 :: Gulf War

Never will :: definitive

Fool :: bamboozle

Unhappy :: Sad

Best man :: Best bud

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Unconscious Mutterings Week 298

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Word & Thought Associations

here's mine:


Zoo :: New Zoo Revue
Neighborhood :: watch
Salute :: tribute
Immortality :: uh, poetry :)
Dominion :: dominate
Rhonda :: help me
Parties :: political
Prince of Darkness :: Joker
Garbage :: collection
Standard :: time

Unconscious Mutterings Week 297

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Word & Thought Associations

here's mine:

Insight ::  view

Irksome :: annoyance

Maybe :: possible

Confirmation :: Bishop

Bib :: overalls

Stop! :: sign

Lobster :: red

Boys :: choir

Fire away :: militia

Give up :: white flag

Unconscious Mutterings Week 290

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Word & Thought Associations

here's mine:

• Signature :: brand
• Olympics :: Medal
• 100% :: certain
• Damn! :: awesome
• Gold :: medal
• Fresh and natural :: vegetables
• Fraction :: piece
• Hurry :: come on
• Summer :: baseball
• 29th :: degree

Okay, I think this weeks word list was a bit lame but then again, no one asked me.

Two Words and a Laugh

Last night, my youngest daughter who has been home for the summer, dug out her ball glove and talked me into playing catch. It didn't take a lot of talking- I've wanted to play catch for a while now. Couple of years back I had a rotator-cuff injury and couldn't pitch a wad of gum underhanded.

For maybe 20 to 25 minuted we went back and forth. My arm felt good but was substantially lacking in power and distance.

Meg seemed to be enjoying it as much as I was then all at once when reaching low to make a catch, she pulled something in her back. We were finished for the evening.

This morning while my wife and I were driving into the city for work, Meg sent my wife a text message and said she could not understand why she ended up with and bad back and Mr. Brittle was unscathed. She cracks me up!

All right... time for some new words to drag out into the public view. Just two this time, but they are great words.

• microphagous - adj. feeding upon small objects
• philodox - n. dogmatic person; a person fond of opinions, especially their own.

OMG,,,, the second one sounds like me.

Unconscious Mutterings Week 289

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Word & Thought Associations

here's mine:

• Month to month :: Rental
• Adjusted :: well
• Prank :: call
• Mop :: handle
• Clarity :: humor (don't ask me why that was the first thing that came to my mind)
• Parenting :: good
• Glenn :: John
• Fingerprint :: Dillinger
• Pineapple :: Cake
• Attorney :: General