Wordnik.com: Having: C; m; e: Comments

Comment by she, about 1 year ago

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:37:54 +0000

It would be really glorious(ly convenient) to have some sort of program to read through everything I've wordied and just tell me what my history's been with everything you mention, 'be..

But yes. I love them, too — Reining them in by hand is time-consuming and kind of overwhelming (in scope and interestingness and usurious number of possibilities..), but I suspect it's really the most thorough way for me to try to answer the bibliophagists' (or this bibliophagist's) question-of-all-questions: "Why do I love what I love, and what do I love that I don't know I do yet?"

And thanks, Prolagus; I still have a few thousand words yet to look at..!

Comment by yarb, about 1 year ago

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:40:20 +0000

Me too, whichbe. Such a rich weft of associations.

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 year ago

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:18:11 +0000

What about culmen?

Comment by whichbe, about 1 year ago

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:13:49 +0000

I love stuff like this, letter combos, and thinking about the sequence of phonemes and their effect...

Comment by she, about 1 year ago

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:52:24 +0000

After pondering it for a bit, I decided c, m, and e were likely to blame for my suddenly finding "[c'mere]" to be very nice-looking (pronunciation aside), and I happened to be investigating this when I decided to finally start adding these lists to Wordie. There's a whole mess of other noted letters and sounds—some of which are already overlapping with (or closely related to) words I have on this list. And I'll probably end up pruning a few others, when I go back to edit for quality (ideally, I want words whose look/sounds I love, not just words that qualify). Bah—I'll figure it out eventually!

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:08:12 +0000

Why these letters in particular?