Does a word ever pop into your head for no reason that you can fathom other than the sheer beauty of the sound of it?
What I’m saying is, sometimes a word pops into my head for no reason that I can fathom other than the sheer beauty of the sound of it.
Yesterday, out of the blue, these were the words:
compendium
duplicitous
mahogany
lothario
antimacassar
pendulum
I can hardly wait to discover what words will find me today.
Some words do indeed sound nice without reference to their meaning. I think of...
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marshmallow
slippery
incandescenr
burgeoning
whippersnapper (i.e. Snowbrush)
& nincompoop...
So no - you are not insane. There are others who like to chew on words just because of the way they sound.
No accident surely. It was that compendium of duplicitous, mahogany-hued lotharios who got grease all over your antimacassars when cleaning their clock pendulums.
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I like the words onomatopoeia, obsequious, diaphanous, Cassiopeia and quintessential.
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I agree with you about loving the sound of words, but being a synesthete, I also love their colors. You say those words came out of the blue, but of those words, only the word "lothario" is blue.
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