L is for....

Ok, for some reason I struggled with a word for this week. I was going to do L is for Learning, and talk about all the different things I have learned since starting knitting. But I'm planning to do something similar for my knitting anniversary in November, so I decided to avoid repeating myself!


One of my favourite words begins with L, "lethalogica". It means "inability to remember the right word", and I just love the fact that there is a term for it! 


So I decided to look up other unusual words beginning with L. As a huge fan of words and their meanings, this seemed like a cunning solution to my writer's block *laughs*

• Lanameter - instrument for measuring the quality of wool (see, I even manged to make it topical)
• Laniferous - wool bearing
• Lentigo - freckle (I need to try and work this one into conversation some time)
• Lethanomia - tendency to forget names (boyfriend has this!)
• Lexiphanic - actually a synonym for my other favourite word (sesquipedalian) - prone to using long words ;)
• Libriform - shaped like a book (why there needs to be an actual word for this, I'm not sure *laughs*)
• Locutory - a room for conversation (how very civilised!)
• Logophile - lover of words (that's me)
• Ludic - spontaneously and aimlessly playful (as opposed to planning your playfulness with a purpose in mind *smirks*)
• Lutescent - yellowish (not sure why "yellowish" isn't good enough?!)

So, I'm sorry for the cop-outness of this post, but inspiration really deserted me this morning! Tomorrow will have far more exciting content (boyfriend had a go at dyeing yarn) and Wednesday will reveal whether or not I managed to get to grips with toe up socks *laughs* And in the meantime, I think we've all learned that words are interesting, bizarre and sometimes utterly pointless ;)