Every morning after my prayers and meditation, I choose my favourtie word for the day. That's one of the luxuries of being retired. One has a little extra time to spare!
Yesterday I chose "rattletrap" because unfortunately, we seem to have more and more of them on our roads, here in the Western Cape.
Today's word is "dab". It is such a cute little word with quite a few meanings. As a teacher of young children, I was often fascinated by the way some of them would dab colour onto their painting paper - it is such a rhythmical word, isn't it?
My children might remember that this is not a new pastime for me - I can remember us laughing at words like "elbow" and windowsill" ; "grouch" and "hackles"; "nub" and "moggy". Sometimes we would select our word for the day by the word that sounded the funniest, most obscure or unusual.
I wonder if there is a word for playing this game and if any of you out there also do this?
If not, why don't you start today? It's just a bit of fun to relieve the tension of our busy lives, as we rush to complete our tasks each day.
Rosemary.
Funny you should post this. My kidlets came up with something similar last week. Fun words to say:
ReplyDeleteHumdrum
Chicken wing
Brouhaha
Minihaha
Contradictory words was another topic. Like one kid asked "What is up with this mom? Why do we drive down a parkway and park in a drive way?"
Language is a fun thing.