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Wayne:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 16, 2008, 11:29:48 am ---I like to imagine that those little word fragments date back to caveman days. Like maybe back then they grunted "GLLL" when they saw a light, or "GRRRR" to indicate the ground.
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:D Oooooh, I love this SC !! I will ponder on that image a while ... :D
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 16, 2008, 11:38:34 am ---Funny! Y'all remind me of Annie Proulx. I remember reading about how she loved the word bishop, because it sounded like slip and shlep, (or something like that) and she liked to imagine a tipsy bishop running through the woods.
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Annie must have been tipsy herself to think the word bishop sounded similar to slip and schlep.
Ellemeno:
I love letters, vowels, consonants, diphthongs, all of them.
LMNO
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 16, 2008, 11:29:48 am ---For instance, words that start with GL have to do with light:
Glow, glisten, glimmer, glass, glare, glint ...
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... glitter ...
I was thinking about this last night, and wondering if the GL rule also applies to some other words that aren't explicitly about light, but could have originally derived their meaning from "lit up" or "glowing":
Glamor, glory, glad ...
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on December 17, 2008, 06:27:58 am ---I love letters, vowels, consonants, diphthongs, all of them.
LMNO
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I very much enjoy the words diphthong and anathema. Simply for existing in our language. :)
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