I like seagulls.
They remind me of tasty waves.
#SeaChildStuckInTheDesert
Bagster
>>I think enrichened might be what s/he was going for.
No. I just enjoy the sound of words, whether they’re in the dictionary or not. I’ve spent massive amounts of time transcribing the entire body of poetry of Henry Livingston and Clement Moore into their phonemes - the sound of the words - and I get lost in the sound shape of words, whether they’re real or not. Mary
I like seagulls.
They remind me of tasty waves.
#SeaChildStuckInTheDesert
Bagster
Dictionaries are useful today, but they mislead people about language - its organic character. For a few years I did genealogy in the parish registers of London - 1538 to 1660. Names were spelled the way they sounded to the writer. I concentrated on the name Dickinson for various reasons. I was told that I had found over 100 spellings of the name over that period, plus some other incidental occurrences.
There was hardly ever any doubt to the intended name. Just as an example, in the earliest mentions of the name, a common spelling was Dicconson. Language is always evolving - but dictionaries are changing that somewhat. 🖨️