UD tried to write a limerick using all of the words beginning with one or another letter of the alphabet. The best she could do was this. She uses the words starting with L. But she wasn’t able to use all of them.
Here’s the L list:
Lagniappe
Lagoon
Languor
Lassitude
Leisure
Lilt
Lissome
Lithe
Luxuriant
And here’s her limerick.
At leisure within his lagoonGauguin spent luxuriant noons.The Tahitians were litheAnd his languor so blitheThat he slept til the rise of the moon.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:43PM
Good grief, there’s barely an English word on the list — they’re all Norman French.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:10PM
There is a psychiatry professor at Emory who would disagree with this list. Several of his favorite words are plethora, concatenation, and burgeoning: as in, There is burgeoning support for my theories of (drug du jour or disorder du jour) based on a concatenation of evidence from a plethora of studies. Stupefying. And the editors of psychiatry journals who are supposed to be people of discernment wave this crap though to publication.
June 22nd, 2009 at 6:58AM
Lagniappe just sucks.
Plethora–aaghhh! Overreaching keeners flock to that one like skeeters to a skinned knee.