I admit I'm not afraid to say there are a lot of words I've never heard of. It's such fun to then look them up.
(love this, courtesy of pinterest)
Sometimes I'm still none the wiser, but sometimes there's a great big lightbulb moment. Ah, that. It's strange that some words go out of fashion, while others stay there or even sneak back in.
Then there are some...well you end up scratching your head and going why on earth?
I remember one of my teacher...Ok Colin Dexter of Inspector Morse fame. He loved giving us insights to words. Explaining them, letting us know how to use them.
Other were not so good. One teacher just told us ad nauseam he hated the word nice. Okay then, but why and what should we use instead. Can't beat Colin.
I love finding new words or resurrecting ones from my teenage years. Pettifogging, flibbertigibbet, onomatopoeic, parsimony. They all roll round the tongue. I remember the first time I hear someone say, 'It's too minuscule to mater in a monetary sense. Let's remunerate in a more coalescence sense. Still not sure what they meant but it sounded good.
Which was why, when I got a copy of Roget's Thesaurus I was over the moon.
Lots of words to play with.
Let's face it, the same old suspects can get mighty boring!
But i'm still going to say,
happy reading (thesaurus or not)
love, Raven xxx
