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This word evokes for me a sense of the early days of air travel when flying seemed very glamorous and sophisticated. It also conjures up memories of idle, sun-splashed afternoons lying on soft grass with the sound of a single-engine plane off in the distance somewhere. Neale The fantastical country of yore, where anything that couldn’t be explained came from. John Crowley also wrote an astonishing book by the same title, about our all-too-human propensity to impose patterns and masques on the world where there is really no pattern — but it does help us sleep at night. Losing the original [...] As an English teacher in Spain, I have a hard time convincing students that “actually” is not the same as the Spanish, actualmente, which means “currently”. “Okay,” they say, arms folded. “So what does it mean?” Struggling for a definition, I decide to give them an example: A: Would you like to go [...] What an absolutely charming way to describe stuff! It makes everyday “things” seem much more important: It’s not a pile if junk, it’s “assorted accoutrement”! It’s not a bunch of crap, it’s “a stunning array of accoutrement”! It’s not a load of old tat, it’s “every accoutrement you could ever need”! What’s not to [...] My father was neither rich nor well educated. From the stories he told of his days in public school, I’m not sure how he ever graduated. Perhaps he never did. Nevertheless, he loved words, and he thought that a good vocabulary was more valuable than money because no one could take it away. He [...] I earned extra credit once in grade school (oh so long ago) for digging this word out of the dictionary. It is one of the few (I forget how few) English words that contains all of the vowels in alphabetical order. I’ve been fond of it ever since. Kevin |
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