Gibberish

I like gibberish. I don’t know how to spell it, tho.

Gibberish, nonsense, rubbish. Gabble, twaddle, claptrap. Balderdash, drivel, baloney, tripe.

I knew there were a lot of words for nonsense, but I've never encountered some of these before. Twaddle? Gabble? Interesting sounds.

Wait a minute. Isn't tripe also a food? A fish or intestines or something some people eat?!

OMG. I just looked up Tripe. This is what it says:
Tripe (from Italian trippa) is a type of edible offal from the stomachs of various farm animals.

Offal means internal organs.

Gross.

Enough of this twaddle. Get back to work!

Elation

ELATION!

Yes!

Hypnotic elation!

Circle of elation.

Jubiliation.

Tintinabulation.

Elation comes from Latin and means state of joyfulness.

Some more monosyllables

Hone - verb - to move toward, or direct attention to an objective; practice.

Ilk - noun - sort, category.

Thwart -- verb -- prevent, block, defeat, frustrate.

Dalliance

dalliance

alliance?

D'alliance?

French, n'est pas?

dally?

Glut

The word of the month, is Glut.

It is a very unusual, a little awkward, monosyllabic word.

The noun means an excessive amount, surfeit, overflow, abundance.

The verb means to feed or supply in excess.

The word comes from Old French, but I suspect they have a much different pronunciation.

Between a rock and a stone...

Listen to these words:

Feather ... Stone

Why does feather sound so light and floating? And why does stone sound so heavy?

How about Rock? It sounds hard. Even more solid than stone.

I guess that's why they say "Between a rock and a hard place." It sounds much worse than "Between a stone and a hard place."

Bombs

First of all, I want to know why these two words sound the same:

balm

bomb

I was looking for my lip balm and noticed the similarity.

The meanings are very dissimilar and so is the spelling....

What do they have in common?