Monday 25 July 2011

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 ;)



7 comments:

  1. Can I borrow the "lethalogica" word?? That happens to me all the time!!! Funny post - I love all the words you come up with for some of these posts!!

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  2. That was fun! I love bizarre words that no one uses - I wonder who first made them, why and how they stuck... I can't wait to use "Lethanomia" on my husband. He's a slight hypochondriac so the results ought to be side splitting... lol.

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  3. Hmm, "ludic" doesn't sound very playful to me. It sounds like something dull and heavy.

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  4. Love this post. Love words. I shall try and weave some of these into a conversation. I hadn't heard of most of them.

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  5. Love it! Love it! Love it!

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  6. Not a cop-out at all! I loved the post and the vocabulary lesson.

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  7. Lexiphanic! Hah! That's me. Loved the list, I don't think it's a copout. Actually it would be a nice weekly/monthly feature

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