A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over fifteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- photographic, computer-simulated and poetic -- are drawn from daily life as well as from poems and wordplay grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original (as are the song-lyrics), although portions evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
November 29, 2020
NOV 29, a brief saga: the Acropolis
November 28, 2020
NOV 28, savoir-faire: franglais
November 27, 2020
NOV 27, commercial product: 'Tucket (an e-bucket, or cyber-safe)
November 26, 2020
NOV 26, portraits of couples: turkeys, domestic and wild
November 25, 2020
NOV 25, reptiles: green anoles in the suburbs (photo-collage)
November 24, 2020
NOV 24, waterfowl: great egrets
great egret, stalking slowly |
great egret, striking |
takeoff from railing, Shem Creek Park, Mt Pleasant SC |
November 23, 2020
NOV 23, political palindromes, P
To go BACKWARDS, return to the previous set ('O') on September 13, 2020.
OR, return to the ORIGINAL POST ('A') on this topic on May 14.
November 22, 2020
NOV 22, poetic non-sequitur: professor and madman
November 21, 2020
NOV 21, birdlore: turkeys, desnooded (pre-holiday fling)
November 20, 2020
NOV 20, singable satire: Tom Lehrer sings "A LESSON ABOUT REDUPLICATIONS"
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
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... in a fallout shelter? |
Some recent lulus – chick flick, boy-toy – marvellous creations.
Some foreign words sound quite absurd, and might be greeted with yuk-yuks,
Like chi-chi, tutu, tête-à-tête, and tse-tse, muu-muu and mukluks.
6) 'Shm-Reduplicates'
And many word-shmords are employed by speaker-shmeakers of Yiddish,
Like fancy-shmancy, choosy-shmoozy, horseradish(mmh!), gefilte-fish.
7) Related Forms e.g. collocation
Tut-tut! for many wild-child words, there's no accord on how they're grouped,
Like fuddle-duddle, Walla Walla, voodoo, wiseguys, hula-hoop.
* German= "off-sound", word coined in the 16th century to indicate a systematic change in the vowel of a word-root to convey a difference in meaning; rhymes with shout
* Hawaiian for quickly or bus !!
9) Add-On: A Singable Lexicon of Reduplicates
See the relevant posts.
November 19, 2020
NOV 19, Toronto ravines: upper East Don valley
November 18, 2020
NOV 18, portraits of couples: broad-headed skinks, llamas
November 17, 2020
NOV 17, Canadiana: urban portaging
From the Archives: An Illustrated E-Mail about Urban Portaging, 2017
| Nov 13, 2016, 7:50 PM | |||
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I encountered this on my late afternoon cycle-ride through trendy Rosedale on a rainy autumn afternoon. In its second year,
this festival, I found out, brings together people portaging canoes across a 17 km ancient aboriginal trail between the
Humber and Don watersheds. At this point, the portagers had just crossed the Mt Pleasant Expressway.
You can review poems, pictures and diverse nonsense related to Canada on the post "Canadiana" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
November 16, 2020
NOV 16, sleek Greek prefixes: DIA- (and DI-)
Clicking HERE will introduce you to our entire collection of verses about the Greek prefixes!
November 15, 2020
NOV 15, Toronto ravines: Avoca
November 14, 2020
NOV 14, pandemic poetry: social distancing
Hi! I'm your social distancing trainer. |
November 13, 2020
NOV 13, diagnostic imaging: ode to gamma rays
November 12, 2020
NOV 12, Toronto ravines: art installations
November 11, 2020
NOV 11, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#41,#42)
You can view the entire collection of these 50 wordplay maps, by accessing the collection 'Tourists Palindromic Guides: The Americas'. Start by clicking HERE!