Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Nonsensical

Canticle
Article
Testicle
Bicycle

Tricycle
Cyclical
Encyclical (what does that even mean?)
Psychological (straying too far)

Manacle (now we’re back)

Reflecting on the sounds and meanings of words – especially in a nonsensical way – is rather like the “clear your mind/think of nothing” aspect of meditation.

Which led me this morning to think that a micycle is a mouse bicycle, and a tricycle  is a bicycle for someone with three legs, and a canticle  is a song for someone incapable of singing.

Frantical should be a back-formation of frantically.

The word mandible is henceforth banned for not conforming.

Ps McGonigal (so near, and yet so far).

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