... or mayhaps I should say, "dripping" off the tongue as "epicurean" has been a long-time favorite word, not to mention indulgence, of mine. Other words in my top-ten list (if you dare to read further) are ----*drum roll*----
Jingoism - just because it's fun to say, not because I'm a proponent (I'm Canadian afterall, eh?)
Assuage - feels like velvet in my mouth and satin in my voice
Whismy - this one is just plain ol' quaint and curious just like many a volume of forgotten lore. Quoth the raven.
Hello, Raven...
ravenous...that's a bellyfull
quotidian...nothing to do with quotes other than the ho-hum ones
salve...because it sounds like what it does
I'll welcome you with the same phrase maverick welcomed me over a year ago:
Welcome to the nut house!
Bedlam regards,
Wordwind
Dear qtr: So happy to see you joining us. I hope that opening will assure you of my not
intending to seem pedantic, but.....Shakespeare said "trippingly off the tongue,
and I ape him assiduously.
Also: is "whismy" a typo for "whimsy"? I am a champion at spotting other people's typos,
but miss many of mine. I'll go search for "whismy" but expect "not found".
Speak the speech, I
pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. —Hamlet. William Shakespeare.
Whismy - this one is just plain ol' quaint and curious just like many a volume of forgotten lore. Quoth the raven.
Whimsy billows off the tongue like smoke from Gandalf's pipe, Raven, but whismy?
I like whismy because it makes me think of kismet, and that's a good tripping word, too.
Raven, don't worry about the loons. They'd never be able to perch on the bust of Pallas.
Bird regards,
WW
Raven, don't worry about the loons. They'd never be able to perch on the bust of Pallas
Quite right, Wordwind. A loon would never do.
The raven and the bust are perfect for one another as Poe himself explains:
"I made the bird alight on the bust of Pallas, also for the effect of contrast between the marble and the plumage,- it being understood that the bust was absolutely suggested by the bird; the bust of Pallas being chosen, first as most in keeping with the scholarship of the lover, and secondly, for the sonorousness of the word Pallas itself." The Philosophy of Composition, E.A. Poe
Dear WWH,
Ah! I see you are keen of eye and quick of finger to spot my "typo" so quickly. BUT ... I purposely mispelled the word to see how sharp the AWAD users are out there and, I must congratulate you. You passed. Bravo! Okay, there was another reason I did that. I thought it would score me some quick responses. I was right.
Pee Ess:
TrippingLY-shmippingLY. :) I'm a fan of the bard too but along with aping the greats I enjoy paraphrasing them once in awhile also. Ah, blissful artistic liberty!
Hello Wordwind,
"Quotidian" - niiiice. :) Do you use this word daily?
My Dearest Troubador,
You're either whismy or against me. I typo-ed it on purpose just to see if anyone would catch it and a few did including you. I salute your gifted editing eye my fellow word-monger.
Oh, Trooooooby!!!
Pee Ess:
Okay, so no billowing, no Hobbit-helping wizard pipes. More like puffs filtered through the nose of Carroll's hookah-smoking caterpillar. BUT, as poetic as we are, that wasn't my point as you'll note in my previous note to your note. So, take note. :)
Wordwind,
Thanks for the unconventional welcome. I shall do my best to embrace the chaos that such a site as this engenders. Methinks me feeleth at home already ...
Shakespeare said "trippingly off the tongue..."
Long as we're being pedantic here, let's note for the record that WS had Hamlet advise the Players to speak the speech "trippingly on the tongue." Makes sense, you gotta admit.
qtr,
welcome; here are a couple of AWADt standards:
rule 1: when replying to posts (especially those that appear out of sequence when viewed in flat mode) you should try and [allow for lots of cross-references in your reading] provide a bit of context via cut&paste or change of subject, so that the flatlanders can tell more or less what it is to which you reply.
rule 2 - rules? we don' need no steenking rules!
rule 3 - there is no rule 3
Assuage - feels like velvet in my mouth and satin in my voiceI, too, have always loved the way this word swims with richness as it flows through my mouth before I give it release.!
Welcome to our band of Merry Wordsters, quoththeraven!
I can see you fit in quite nicely here.
Another word I love for it's "tripping of tongue" is the Amerindian name for a river in Pittsburgh/Western PA...
Monongahela [muh-non-guh-
HEE-la]...I just love the way it feels when I say it...
Monongahela...
Monongahela...
And if we are to regard the Bard for grammatic paragonality we must be ready to endure the most unkindest cuts from our peers.
In reply to:
You're either whismy or against me.
...The Raven
...The Raven fits right in. 
you'll find the raven, should you desire it, is in Poe's cottage in Fordam (the bronx) NY, just a click or so away from fordham university.(the bust of pallas alas, i never saw-but a stuffed raven was found in the attic of the cottage, and is suspected to be one of the original artifacts of the cottage.)
several of us here make claim to poe as a nieghbor.. i grew up on the original site of the furnished cottage Poe rented while in NY, (it was move a few hundred feet across the street into a park in the early days of 1900's)
BobYoungBalt--also thinks of Poe as his neighbor, being from baltimore, where Poe spent his final days, and WordWind, claims Poe as fine Virginian, and sometime Richmond-ite that she is.
What claim to Poe do claim? do you share his soul? or other kindred relation?
Yes, Poe lived here a while. There is the Poe Museum, the Old Stone House, in which he never lived. It's the oldest building in Richmond. But in the 100th block of East Franklin is Linden Row, and that's possibly the location of where Poe once lived, right across the street from Richmond Public Library. I used to live in Linden Row for only $85.00 a month--back in the mid-70s. But then somebody bought it, poshified it, to use Fish's word, and now its an inn and too expensive for me to step foot into.
I don't know whether Linden Row was standing when Poe lived either there or across the street where the library is now located. Guess I can google it today since school's are closed due to the sniper.
Greetings Blackbird! [sqwaark]
I like "whimsy", but it always makes me think of
Jabberwocky's "mimsy", which then transforms itself into "mumsy". Can't have any of that, so I've a slight preference for the whims
ical, or even for whimsicality.
"Epicurean" is a nice word, but sadly abused by
Epicure being a brand name for stuff in jars (at least here in the UK). Makes me think delicatessens, which is a touch too mundane. I mean, can you see the Romans rushing to the deli to pick up a jar of pickles for the Bacchanalia? Hmmm. Come to think of it..
A word I keep coming back to, but never get much chance to use, is
Milliard.
Welcome Raven. You one of the seven at the Tower?
Welcome to you, qtr. Am I right in guessing that you've been reading for a while before posting?
And, no offence, Shona, but I find myself hoping that you don't make a Milliard posts...
Thanks for the welcome, Jackie. What meanest thou by the following quote of yours?
> Am I right in guessing that you've been reading for a while before posting? <
Are you asking if I've read a fair bit in general before posting? Or are you asking if I've read a fair bit on this particular site before posting?
Quoththeraven
Sorry, cutie (QT!)--(hmm, cutier just doesn't have the right ring to it, somehow.)--I meant that your posts fit in so well with the "flavor" of this place, that it seemed to me that you must have been reading this board for some time before making your own posts.
Jackie,
In reply to:
I meant that your posts fit in so well with the "flavor" of this place, that it seemed to me that you must have been reading this board for some time before making your own posts.
"Ahh!!!" she said with an enlightened tone. I see. Well, garsh, shucks -- <kicks rock to side of road> -- thanks for the kudos. Actually, no I hadn't read any of the posts before embarking on my first one. My eyes espied "favorite words" in the MISCELLANY forum and I bolted straight over just like a good little vocabulary junkie should.
I DO however, look very much forward and sideways to reading more of the posts on this site and also posting more myself, post-haste.
QTR