Showing posts with label Words; I like. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Words; I like. Show all posts

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Daffodils - William Wordsworth


Never has yellow looked so alluring to me, as in this poem below by Wordsworth. The last six lines have stayed fresh in my otherwise lousy memory, no mean feat let me assure you.

Each time I read it, I think about the host of unforgettable memories that will stay with me forever. Touche!

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

And now, Dictionary.com's 2006 Word of the Year: call for entries


Trotting on the heels of Merriam-Webster's search for(and selection of) Word of the Year 2006(the winner was truthiness), Dictionary.com, the free online dictionary search website, is also calling everyone to cast their votes for the 2006 Word of the Year.

Cast your vote here.

I've already cast mine.

Polls open till tomorrow.

Results will be announced on December 18, 2006.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Merriam-Webster's 2006 Word of the Year


The verdict is finally out.
Merriam-Webster’s, which had asked everyone to submit their nominations for the Word of the Year 2006, have announced the clear winner.
The # 1 Word of the Year for 2006 is truthiness (noun)
Meanings:
a) "Truth that comes from the gut, not books" (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," October 2005)
b) "The quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true" (American Dialect Society, January 2006)
The others words that made it to the top ten list were (in order):
2. Google
3. Decider
4. War
5. Insurgent
6. Terrorism
7. Vendetta
8. Sectarian
9. Quagmire
10. Corruption

FYI:
The word that I had nominated made its presence felt worldwide as also made it to the # 10 spot on the list.