I love words,
all words,
inelegant and gauche,
vulgar and swear,
erudite and learned,
slang and joual,
words of love and hate.
I think my vocabulary,
is decent,
I speak both French,
and English,
but,
English is the language,
I read most,
it is the language,
I write in.
I love words.
Tonight, at the bookstore,
I looked up a word,
in one of the old dictionaries,
in the language arts section.
It is a word I used,
yesterday,
with my friend,
the busy writer.
We were discussing,
a very painful,
and personal,
incident in her life,
and I said the word,
that applied,
was,
perfidy,
abject and absolute,
betrayal.
It is the kind of word,
you use,
once every five years.
There are others,
pandemonium,
seismic,
obsidian.
While scanning the shelf,
in the bookstore,
I came across,
a book called,
word advantage,
how to build,
your vocabulary,
for success.
So, for fun,
I took the pretest,
I scored,
62 out of 100.
The book told me,
my vocabulary,
needed improvement.
Funny, I thought it,
was better.
Tomorrow, I begin,
building word power:-)
Success will undoutedly be,
mine.
Well, the NyQuil,
is kicking in,
Goodnight all.
Later girls,
BB