“Bumbershoot” was in fairly common usage while I was growing up in England in the 1960’s-1980’s. We still bring it out occasionally even now when it rains (see what I did there?)!
Love these, all new to me except "bumbershoot". You caught me on demisemiquaver. If I had divided the word up correctly, I would have known. But I read demise-mi-quaver and had no clue. Thanks for the puzzle!
I've got my book, and I'm limiting myself to reading only a few a day. It's joyful!
I loved reading Poetry Comics. The drawings are fun and the writing holds messages that will be revealed as the reader (adult or child) developes. Bravo!
Great post! And I loooove Rundell! Taught Wolf Wilder last year, and Impossible Creatures is my choice of book for the transition year from 6 to 7 this year! Plus, she talked to my class and messaged another! Love her!
Fantastic words, and as soon as i saw the first one, 'Tatterdemalion'
i was happy that i've known this since i was 10 years old,
as Freddie Mercury used it in a lyric on the 2nd Queen album-
this song- 'The Fairyfellers Master-Stroke'...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orTosjJUQ3k
Ploughman, "waggoner will" and types
Politician with senatorial pipe, he's a dilly-dally-o
Pedagogue squinting, wears a frown
And a satyr peers under lady's gown, dirty fellow
What a dirty laddio
Tatterdemalion and the junketer
There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter, he's my hero
Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend
The nymph in yellow (can we see the master stroke)
What a quaere fellow
Why use a short word when a sesquipedalian one will do?
“Bumbershoot” was in fairly common usage while I was growing up in England in the 1960’s-1980’s. We still bring it out occasionally even now when it rains (see what I did there?)!
Love it Grant! I can't imagine how many people that you make smile with your art.
I recall hearing an urban legend (most likely) about a psychiatry book that stated:
«Schizophrenia patients tend to use unusual words and invent new terms (...)»
...and then, in the next paragraph:
«Schizophrenics are sometimes extremely workative (...)»
Brilliant! I like banjaxed.
Love these, all new to me except "bumbershoot". You caught me on demisemiquaver. If I had divided the word up correctly, I would have known. But I read demise-mi-quaver and had no clue. Thanks for the puzzle!
I've got my book, and I'm limiting myself to reading only a few a day. It's joyful!
I loved reading Poetry Comics. The drawings are fun and the writing holds messages that will be revealed as the reader (adult or child) developes. Bravo!
LOVE these!!
Just ordered your book from Watermark - supporting two great causes at once!
Gonna try and buy your book to stock my Topeka KS art classroom bookshelf. Love the words! Love from not too far away!
Great post! And I loooove Rundell! Taught Wolf Wilder last year, and Impossible Creatures is my choice of book for the transition year from 6 to 7 this year! Plus, she talked to my class and messaged another! Love her!
Banjaxed would be a very Irish word for me ☘️
There's also a sixty-fourth note: a hemidemisemiquaver!