thinkbrit

mrsjdr:

iamlittlei:

hithertokt:

detroitsomething:

enjambment. 

What’s yours?

albeit.

epistemology

As of late, recalcitrant.

Although Thursday’s word of the day from our new calendar was hydromancy and we had a conversation about divination and HP. When the kids left a couple girls gave me a high-five and said, “hydromancy!” It was pretty epic.

Tintinnabulation. It was the first one that popped into my head and now I can’t think of any others. I’m a fan of effective onomatopoetic words. And I remember reading this one in middle school when reading Poe’s “The Bells” and falling in love with it.

(Really, though, what’s not to love?

I          
Hear the sledges with the bells-
                  Silver bells!
  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
          How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
              In the icy air of night!
          While the stars that oversprinkle
          All the heavens, seem to twinkle
            With a crystalline delight;
                Keeping time, time, time,
            In a sort of Runic rhyme,
  To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
            From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
                  Bells, bells, bells-
  From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

Find the complete poem here. Do it.)