Words

I've always been friendly with words. Whenever I met a new word, I would check on it - whether it seemed heavy or light, fat like an elephant or thin and slender like a deer. I would discover its meaning - how different was precaution from precocious, what did it mean to feel dizzy, how different was it to feel giddy. From where did the word come - barber came from the Roman word barba which means beard, moolah means money in Fijian. Its usage - the wind always blows, never sings or dances; the birds always flap their wings, never just move them. How to speak the words - jim-nay-shi-yum for gymnasium and gai-nah-kau-law-jist for gynaecologist. They puzzled me, amused me, entertained me, but most importantly, kept me company.

There are a few words which I love more than others. Some because they sound good, some because they have been easy to spell while some others purely on contextual basis. Here's a list of a few of them, however random it might sound and seem, I am loving this activity of putting down words. Just words. Without having to bother stringing them all together to make sense.


Bubbles, frostbite, x-ray, samosa, blueberry, blackburn, oink, Frisbee, VIBGYOR, whisper, lee, gushes, spoons, sex, education, bosom, crux, cash, pink, shimmer, glitter, lustrous, sensex, tune, strings, fangs, fish, luxury, benzene, loop, dewdrop (as a child, I thought it was one word), gleam, balls, shread, guts, glitz, blood, beef, tortoise, turtle, purple, porpoise, mess, pastings, twinkle, trickle, creek, fins, dolphins, manga, sauna, grave, casket, muffled, reaking, jealous, exit.



Remember I only love the words, not what they actually denote or connote!