OCT (2022), submitted palindromes #34

 

Wordplay Maps: EASTERN CANADIAN Scramble-towns #13-16

 

Who would ever have guessed? 

It turns out that an unparalleled word in generating anagrams, i.e. letter scrambles, is P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S. We have taken advantage of that discovery to create this unique series of wordplay maps of imaginary American (and Canadian) locales, each one completed by its official two-letter state (or provincial) abbreviation. 

For more Scramble-Town maps, click HERE.

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A Different Angle: POETS' CORNER, part #2

This post is a continuation of a collection of verses as initiated on Jul 15, 2021. 

prior poetic posts (part #1)

addiction to limerick writing 

authorly skill

blogosphere

bold-faced / bald-faced

cans and can'ts (argumentively)

collaboration

creative writing (decompose)

depressed limericist

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Doggerel (brief sagas)

Editorial balking

Editorial state: "Held"

(The poet's) Family

Free verse

Gender-neutral language

Inventiveness (palinkus)

(for continuation, see the link below)

 This verse bypasses the requirement at OEDILF for 'definition', in favor of the more reasonable targets of 'exemplification' and 'entertainment'. The author points out hesitatingly that 17 prior 'balk-verses' in OEDILF's data-base (as of 2022) altogether provide minimal definition of the many meanings of this puzzling word.

Authors' Note:

Held:  (at OEDILF ...) A state of workshopping selected by an author to shield their submission from discussion until further self-editing makes it suitable to return to the 'Tentative' state as an openb target for collegial comment. 

The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form is an online humor dictionary and related website whose contributors have been making their way for 20 years through the alphabet to define the meaning(s) of each word in the English language. Its highly polished verses are the reult of a collaborative editing process. In its 20 years of existence, it has progressed fromn A- to Ik-.  

Authors' Note:  Avoidance of discriminatory gender-bias in language is an unassailable aim. 

   In the medical field, there are many terms which are problematic due to syllables that in written or spoken form make them seem suspect for such bias. Usually, however, this 'problem' is happenstance based on the incorporation of Greek root-words. Sometimes the level of comedy is reached, as in the near-homonym for the male possessive form in the term HYSterectomy' (surgical removal of the uterus). Other medical and non-medical terms with hidden gender-related messages as in the above verses are indicated by font colour.  

OVERLAPPING THEMES:

To access more of this poetic cornucopia, you can proceed onward to the collection  'Poets' Corner #3' (February 2023, 4+ poems) ...

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Grandpa Greg's Advanced Grammar: OBJECTIONABLE ADJECTIVES

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Efficacious
Flaccid
Fulsome
Forced (bulbs)

Estival and Hibernal
Histonomic

Floccular

Horrible

Authors' Note:  The author disavows overly blunt speech and writing, but finds the tendency to embellish disconcerting. Efficacious seems to be used disproportionately when effective or efficient would do nicely. Other words with inflated frequency of usage include symptomatology, methodology and, yes, even usage. 

Authors' Note:  Pretentiousness may be at work when the word fulsome is (ab)used by a writer or speaker who feels that full is not sufficiently impressive.

Authors' Note: In English there are fortunately many nouns that we can use as adjectives when the situation demands. In the opinion of this author, summer (adj.) and winter (adj.) are less cumbersome descriptors than estival and hibernal, despite the opinion of some lexicographers. 

                                                                                            withdrawn from OEDILF, June 2023

Authors' Note: Around the globe, hundreds of thousands of doctors have learned the microscopic appearance and function of tissues early in medical school through the study of histology. (The corresponding adjectival forms are histologic or histological.)

The role of histonomy, if any, as well as that of its adjectival derivatives, is considerably less certain.

                                                          

Authors' Note: 

ovine: adjective pertaining to sheep
ovular: adjective pertaining to egg

A broad spectrum of adjectives, many abstruse and pedantic, are based on Latin roots. A few of these, like bovine and regular, have been fully adopted into modern speech patterns. Others, such as the pair ovine and ovular, are a source of confusion. A minority, including the relatively obscure floccular, do rhyme with each other, providing a benefit only to poets. Is floccular snow falling? The author finds that use flaky.

Authors' Note:  Horrible (like its close cousins terrible and frightful) has become a difficult term to define. Originally meaning full of horror, or capable of engendering horror, it can now be applied in two opposing directions.

 This poem happens to fit fairly well with the scansion for a well-known song. So if you go back to the version on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (click HERE), you can see our suggestions for singing the lyrics.

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American Satire: PROLONGATION #1

EXPLANATION:

This post provides a follow-up to ...

"AMERICAN SATIRE  -- A Term of Endirement" (Note that the first collection of poems, #1, gives helpful suggestions on how to SING these intriguing lyrics.)

Plus, there are three more linked posts in that group.

 But, it is now time to move on, we hope.

CURRENT CONTENTS (prolongation, #1)

Archival

Classified (Espionage Act)

Crasscracy

Criminal lying

Deceit, social

Defunding the FBI

Deserved (schadenfreude)

Distortion

(for continuation, see the link below)

Authors' Note: In the United States, all documents and materials related to the conduct of business in the executive branch are deemed by law to remain the property of the federal government, particularly after a president and his staff leave office. The federal agency responsible for storing and archiving these documents is NARA (the National Archives and Records Administration).

Authors' Note: Lines written in August 2023, two-and-a-half years after the sad events of January 6, 2021. What more can I say?

Authors' Note: 

oy gevalt (oy-guh-VULT): phrase borrowed from Yiddish; an exclamation expressing shock, surprise or disapproval

schadenfreude (SHA-den-froi-duh, or as here, sha-den-FROI-duh): loanword from German; taking delight in others' misfortune

MORE VERSES ON THIS TOPIC

We suspect that many readers have come to enjoy these newsworthy comments on the US political scene. So, at great effort and expense, we have prepared another collection of politically-tinged verses for you to enjoy. Click HERE!

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