Brimming with wishes

I am brimming with wishes! See musinglog.blogspot.com.

Teeming.

Overflowing.

Brim is usually a noun, but as a verb, it means:
to fill to the brim.

Rim is a synonym for brim (the noun).

Brim comes from Old English.

M Words for Christmas

Merry Christmas!

Magnificent Health
and
Munificent Wealth

in 2011!

These are my wishes for you, my dear friend!

Delightful D Words

Dash -- v. destroy quickly, or run fast.

Delve -- v. explore, dive in , dig, unearth.

What do these words have in common? They are both one syllable and start with the letter D.

Useful Words

If you are full of wishes, it's called wishful. If you are full of thanks, it's called thankful.

What are you full of when you are bashful?

Affluence

Affluent. I like the sound of that word, it's very mellifluous.

affluent -- adj. abounding, abundant. wealthy, opulent.

Affluence is the noun formation. From Latin.

Abounding? I've heard of abundant, but abounding? what is abounding?

abounding -- adj. form of

abound -- v.i. to be plentiful; to teem, overflow. From Latin

abundant -- existing in plentiful supply, ample. From the same root as abound.

The synonyms for the word abounding are abundant, maybe even affluent, or bountiful.

Charlatan

Charlatan -- n. one who makes false claims about knowledge or skill; quack.

From Italian, babbler.

I am delirious

I am delirously ecstatic and enduring about all the unintelligible comments I've been getting on Phololog's blog!

Here is one of the comments:

I be enduringly familiar with insufficient of the articles on your website. I extremely like your fashionableness of blogging. I added it to my favorites and last will and testament. Be checking back soon. Please add me to your input as ok and fail me conscious what you think. Thanks.

Imagine that! I've been added to their last will and testament.

Now, I don't know how this works, but these comments pop up, anonymously, of course, and if I publish it, I get several more comments in gibberish. So I'm just going to tweek it a bit.

I am now familiar with all of your blogs and articles and I
enjoy them tremendously. I am so envious of your
fascinating style of writing. I even recommend it to
my friends who don't speak English. I am hoping
I can hire you soon to write some content for my own
website. Thanks for sharing your impeccable insight
and wisdom with us!

That kind of sounds like English.

They do send me crazy links, some in other languages and some that are completely inappropriate.

I would like to thank you in advance for sending me some intelligent, intelligible comments. I would really love to receive them.

Ambassador

Ambassador is a grand word.

It means representative. But sounds more regal.

ambassador - n. a diplomat of the highest rank or personal representative. From Late Latin.

Do you have the Gumption?

gumption - n. 1. bold, energetic initiative. 2. shrewd common sense. From English dialect (Scot.)

So initiative and shrewdness would be synonyms...

shrewd - adj. 1. sharp or wise; sagacious. 2. artful, sly. Middle English.

I think boldness would be a better synonym.

But I chose this word because gumption is such a weird-sounding word. Most words that end with tion are words on their own. For example, invention and action. But gump is not. Gump is a very harsh-sounding syllable, and is not in the dictionary.

It also does not have an adjective associated with it. May I suggest gumptuous? Rhymes with sumptuous. Now that is a horse of a different color. That one letter, which makes the initial sound, G or S, makes a BIG difference!

A Jury of Your Piers

I know orthography doesn't count for anything anymore, but when I get an email from someone trying to sell me high priced products, I expect them to edit and correct their work. Once in a while I publish my blog with a misspelling, and I correct it as soon as possible. And if I were sending marketing material, it would be proofread first. I understand that spell-check will not find this mistake. "Pier" is a valid word, so the computer cannot know or care if someone has a pier full of boats or is referring to another person, considered equal in legal terms. And people might not notice, because pier sounds just like peer and both are nouns...

I am probably in the minority, but send me a sales pitch with such a glaring error and you lose all credibility in my eyes. I won't do business with you.

I am probably in the minority, because most people wouldn't notice the error, that I find so glaring. But I think people should be more careful with written documents.

Do I have any peers that agree with me?

Any piers?

Gloria

It has come to my attention that gloria is not just a name, but a valid word in English.

gloria -- n. a burst of brilliant dazzling light. From Latin.

Glorious means splendid, magnificent, delightful.

I was awakened by the gloria in my room this morning.