Emily Has A Great Vocabulary

For proof, reference this (note "shenangegans": http://movementofcolors.blogspot.com/2011/11/losing-battle.html


50,000 words is just not going to happen, folks. I blame you all, mostly. Also, I blame flying and driving and National Youth Worker's Conventions and weddings galore (I have another to attend in Dec.) that keep me so busy that even when I do find time to sit still and be exhausted, I fall asleep. In a fluffy Mariott-cloud bed, or sitting up on my headboard with my neck at a 90 degree angle. I also realized this weekend, when the author Doug Fields was talking that he mentioned behing completely wiped out when he was writing his book, and begged for his work to be through, and that I have not pleaded to anyone for an end to my book yet, so therefore, I must not be quite putting myself into it the way I could......

Emily had a good idea when she challenged me to use the word "battened" in the novel I am writing (still writing, just not gonna meet the deadline.  Let the militia swoop down upon me Dec. 1), and I really hope that you will participate, all you creative and/or snarky people (like, all 6 of you). My request quite easy.

Give me some not-so-traditional words to use! Give each other the same thing! In the combox! Those old words that still work even though one might sound like Shakespeare when using them in regular language. Like "musn't," or "tarry," for example. Or, an option would be to suggest words used commonly by our fellow English-speakers under H.M. the Queen, such as "queue," or "boot" (for car trunk) which make sense in context but never alone for us poor Estadosunidense. Or perhaps some math vocabulary. Bring it on.

I know many of you have them.  "What a spectacular word!" you say to yourself. "The objective noise it makes somehow expresses exactly it's meaning! Why did this phrase die out?! How exact is this little definition exactly what I really meant to convey!"

Go crazy, kids. (Definitions to more unique words appreciated. But in light of our search engine world, it won't be hard to figure it out if you are typing with one hand because you're eating an apple.)

Cheers!