The alliterative binomial "vim and vigor" has been used in a verse found HERE.
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April 15, 2023
APR 15, lexicon of word-pairs: alliterative binomials U to Z
The alliterative binomial "vim and vigor" has been used in a verse found HERE.
April 14, 2023
APR 14, photo-collage: life returns to Toronto's 'Brickworks'
red-winged blackbirds (early season: wing-colour barely discerned) |
turtles sunning on a floating island (exceptionally warm day) |
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April 13, 2023
APR 13, patients and their maladies: aldosterone excess (Conn's syndrome)
Authors' Note: High blood pressure (hypertension), most commonly has no definable cause. Rarely, there is a relatively fixed and excessive production of aldosterone, a hormone produced by the cortex of the adrenal glands to regulate the exchange of sodium and potassium in the kidney. The medical entity was known historically as Conn's syndrome. The abnormal hormone levels are due to an overgrowth of well-differentiated adrenal cells, resulting in either a small localized benign tumor, or to diffuse overgrowth of both glands.
April 12, 2023
APR 12, portraits of couples: Canada goose family
You can view all of our folio-photos from the collection of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
April 11, 2023
APR 11, "pictures at a renovation": demolition, day#6
PREVIOUS VIEWS:
front hall |
'new' office seen from front hall/vestibule. |
office seen from master BR (dividing wall pending) |
guest bath |
April 10, 2023
APR 10, a brief saga (hellenophilia): Dodecanese islands
April 9, 2023
APR 9, special event: Toronto's Easter parade
April 8, 2023
APR 8, poets' corner: rhotic-poet school
Authors' Note:
poor, sure, more: words often used for rhyming at the ends of poetic or lyric lines (random example: I'd like to ensure / That our love will bring more); non-rhotic speakers will claim that these words mutually rhyme as indicated in the phonetic renderings paw, shaw, maw.
With occasional exceptions, native-born Canadians using English are rhotic speakers, their Rs being fully sounded, even after vowels. However, large numbers of immigrants have been welcomed to our shores bringing non-rhotic dialects. Their speech pattern is rendered roughly by changing all the relevant Rs to Hs. Many will also use a pronunciation element known as the "intrusive R", as in the verse's third line (flawR). This speech variation, invoked in this particular instance, might lead many North Americans to feel that the word floor is under discussion.
In Canada and substantial portions of the northern US, as reported by our staff-member and poetry coach Larry, the Mary/marry/merry merger, relevant to a related group of words containing the letter R, simplifies the varied pronunciation of vowels prior to that important consonant, with major benefit in crafting rhyme-pairs.
You can find lots of other verses on this blog under the listing "Poets' Corner". Click HERE.
April 7, 2023
APR 7, binomial phrases: "here and there"
To review our poetic effusion about binomial phrases proceed to our blog 'Edifying Nonsense', click HERE !
There is also an entire collection of lyrics to patter songs, somewhat older material, dedicated to various kinds of binomials, that provides more didactic material and an extensive series of examples, and allows you to sing these expressions for your own enjoyment, or for that of others around you. Click HERE !
April 6, 2023
APR 6, "pictures at a renovation": demolition, day#5
PREVIOUS VIEWS:
front hall |
'vestibule' off front hall |
'new' office space |
kitchen |
LR/DR |
guest bathroom |
April 5, 2023
APR 5, "pictures at a renovation": demolition, day#4
April 4, 2023
APR 4, "pictures at a renovation": demolition, day#3
At the end of a busy day. (Availability of the service elevator is an issue for the demolition crew.)
No poetry today!
front hall (newly opened up 'vestibule') |
kitchen |
LR/DR |
den |
en suite master bath |
April 3, 2023
APR 3, ambulatory verse: strut
You can review all our verses on this topic, accumulated for you on two posts (eight verse each) on our companion blog "Edifying Nonsense", by clicking HERE.
April 2, 2023
APR 2, "pictures at a renovation": demolition, day#1
front hall |
kitchen |
LR/DR |
den |
master BR |
April 1, 2023
APR 1, lexicon of word-pairs: alliterative binomials R to T
Matching the selection on the second slide, these include "cool and calm".
Matching the selection on the first slide, these include "right or wrong" and "short and sweet".
You can easily find all of these on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE, and following the links.
March 30, 2023
MAR 30, singable satire: decaffeinated version sung by The Ink Spots -- "REFLUX ROMP"
PARODY-LYRICS
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2014, originally blog-posted January 10, 2014. Thanks to Steve McNie of Corktown Ukulele Jam / Toronto Ukes for providing chord charts and other help!
REFLUX ROMP
Craving chilies cheery hot ?
So hoist up the head of the stead of that bed
If you can't purge that Java-jive urge
Reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux.
Coffee urn! Gas burn!
Acid burn! Can't learn.
To spurn prohibitions to caffeine.
Your tongue may be furred from refractory GERD *
Cope with Sanka, it's decaf
It cuts the acid burn down by half.
If you can't purge that Java-jive urge
Reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux !
March 29, 2023
MAR 29, homophonous verse: deserving/commendable
Authors' Note:
Although the adjective deserving has come euphemistically to be applied to the needy, it classically was applied only to people or things that were commendable or admirable.
You can view our whole collection on this topic -- verses intentionally crafted with contentious repetition of the rhyming syllables -- in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Check the post "Homophonous Verse" by clicking HERE.