Words that allure

Words have a strange magic. I like words that take time to be said - a word with a weighty meaning that takes time to say, is pon-der-ous and requires effort to grasp fully makes the effort of speaking worthwhile. This occured to me while I was driving on a beautiful road today.

I thought of the word pro-li-fic. Such a delicious word - you can roll it over and over again in your mouth. I thought that's what I want to be with my blog - pro-li-fic.
This led me to the word pro-li-x. I hope none of the blogs are prolix!! Rather, I would prefer them to sc-in-til-lla-te. And not ob-fus-cate matters.

A short and sweet word that I admire is hock (a type of wine - not to be confused with hawk). It is sharp and immediately brings to mind the assertiveness of a stodgy Englishman asking for his favourite drink!
A colleague of mine once used ‘bl-ud-geon’ to describe the style of a batsman. This is a cool word – it immediately brings to mind violence and crudity.

Some non-English words are also my favourites. For example – zeitgeist. Very apt word for describing the ‘spirit of the times’. Also scha-den-fre-ude. Very weighty word - though I doubt if I have ever heard anyone use it (or ever will). I think one word that truly is unique is wanderlust. A more apt name for this malaise is impossible to find - I think it is the 'wander' in the word that clinches the issue. For example 'travel-lust' would be nowhere as powerful.

Another German word that I find quite funny is 'putsch'. Although the consequences of one are terrible, the feeling I get on hearing it is as if I have stepped on some horrible bad smelling gooey substance. Ugh!!

I hope this post brings out the quint-es-sen-tial beauty of words and does not sound like so much so-phis-try :-)