TARGETED PALINDROMES G to I (the showcase continues)

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The Adventures of Leslie Moore, Linguist -- SUFFIXES

CURRENT CONTENTS

meanINGFULLY

helpFULLY

feckLESSNESS

categorICALLY

atoneLESSNESS

loveLINESS

gallINGLY

loneLINESS

youthFULNESS

linguistICALLY  (4 stanzas, a 'brief saga')

Authors' Note: The Yiddish loanword bupkes literally means "beans", but is figuratively applied to items or concepts that are worthless.

Authors' Note: For more than a decade, the author of this verse has routinely taken a bedtime dose of alginate, a seaweed-derived product useful as an adjunct in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux.

Authors' Note: Leslie Moore is an academic linguist who has acted as an inspirational muse in almost a dozen of Giorgio's recent verses. Leslie Moore's lifestyle choice of rejecting the world of IT has gotten her into some difficulty, bringing accusations from her colleagues of incompetence.

Authors' Note:  Until this minute, Giorgio had apparently not even heard of Leslie's cousin Vic.

Authors' Note: Readers are reminded of the key role of the word sorry in the Canadian vocabulary.

Authors' Note: The dove is often used a symbol of peace or pacifism; contrarily, the hawk is used as a symbol of those with a propensity for war or violence.

"An iron fist (hand) in a velvet glove" is a well-known idiom portraying hawks who hide behind a more dove-like appearance or demeanour.

(Note that the four stanzas of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

Editors' Note: Leslie has asked us to point our readers to a much  earlier verse written by one of her mentors, "clannishlessness"

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NOV 10, INSECTS, part #3

prior post (#1)
beerbugs
bumblebees
clothes moths
cold adaptation
computer bugs
deer- and horse- flies
entomologists
fire ants
prior post (#2)
gnats
gnat repellents
insect repellents
ladybug diner
mosquitoes
Ricardo the dragonfly
roaches (etymological approach)
termites

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Toothpick grasshoppers

Woollybear caterpillars

Yellow jackets

Clothes moths (3 verses, a 'brief saga')

 

Authors' Note: 

bello, bella: Italian (male, female forms) for fine, handsome or beautiful

  The best-known name for this common North American insect derives from the larval form, the banded woolly bear. The caterpillar, with reddish-brown midsection and vertically demarcated black front and rear ends, is often seen in the autumn, appears playful to children, and is non-toxic. There is no easily appreciated visual difference between the genders for either larval or adult stages. Several small locales in the United States celebrate these cute caterpillars with fall 'woollybear' festivals.

Authors' Note: A million Emergency Room (ER) visits per year in the United States are caused by concern over stings from insects of the order Hymenoptera; stings can result in significant local reactions and even anaphylaxis. Many people attribute these incidents, without differentiation, to 'bees'. In fact, the common honeybees and bumblebees are considerably less aggressive than yellow jackets, such as Vespula maculifrons; these pesty wasps make us miserable in the summer and early fall, particularly at fairs and other outdoor events, by their relentless search for sugar-containing foods. Vespine is the adjective relating to wasps.

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Armchair entomologists with a sense of adventure might wish to continue their travels by proceeding to a subsequent blogpost dealing with "A Selection of PARASITES".    

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PATIENTS and their MALADIES, part #4

previous poetic posts (part#3)
hives
hoarding disorder
knee effusion
lichen sclerosus
male infertility
nervous bladder
polyps, colonic

CURRENT CONTENTS  (part #4):

Vitamin A deficiency

Vitreous detachment

more to follow.

(Please note that many of the verses originally collected in this blogpost were moved to appropriate specialty collections as described below.) 

Authors' Note: The first step is to find a colonoscopist, usually done by enlisting your primary physician to arrange a referral.

You can find a poem about colonoscopists by your favorite blog-authors by clicking HERE.

Authors' Note: Avitaminosis, an absence of vitamins, causes specific deficiency diseases, as discussed for some other vitamins by (Dr.) SheilaB, a prolific contributor to OEDILF.

  Avitaminosis A, i.e. absence of vitamin A, is the most common cause of childhood blindness in parts of Africa and South Asia, resulting in specific eye damage including corneal ulceration and retinal damage. Early symptoms include xerophthalmia (severely 'dry eyes') and loss of night vision, although, it is noted that in appropriately nourished populations (developed countries), these symptoms are due to other causes.

Authors' Note:  The near-spherical posterior chamber of the eye ('the vitreous') is filled with a translucent gel that shrinks with age, and becomes 'stringy'. Fibrous strands in this space leads to the appearance of floaters, a common symptom.

  Progressive shrinkage may result in more sudden vitreous detachment with a marked increase in floaters, but generally no harm to vision, and symptoms regress spontaneously over several months. Occasionally, the initial event is accompanied by detachment (tearing –TAIR) of a portion of the light-detecting retina, so careful initial assessment and follow-up are warranted.

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