The language certainly is colorful enough...
Thursday Thirteen 84::20 - Bright Motley
This is my Thursday Thirteen post. I've started visiting you early birds, but I haven't actually started my list yet. I'm thinking of being especially silly and posting it on Thursday. Mostly, I've started this post just to keep track of whom I've visited. I'll probably post my list tomorrow. Tonight's a new episode of Jericho, and since that's about the only TV I watch regularly, I'm taking time to catch it's first run on broadcast. (And - hey, is it just me, or is Battlestar Galactica really wobbling this season?)
I'm a language person. I love learning new words, learning how they came into being, learning stories of their popularization...and, in some cases, just learning the sound and the feel of the words. (I can't figure out north-south-east-west when driving in town, but I can taste words when I read them. Go figure.) Words for colors are especially interesting. Just about everyone who speaks English knows of Roy G Biv (though why does indigo frequently get shunted to the side?). How many of these have you heard?
- cerulean (blue)
- heliotrope (reddish purple, dark red)
- titian (red)
- cinnabar (red-brown)
- nacre (mother-of-pearl, or pearl)
- argent (silver)
- auricomous (pale yellow)
- viridian (green)
- tawny (yellow-brown)
- ebon (black - I like the word, but it gets used...a bit clumsily)
- sable (black, dark dark brown)
- cinereal (gray)
Other Participants
- Me & My Musings with books to read
- Did You Ever Get the Feeling... with sucktastic-vacation haiku
- Books. Lists. Life. with movies they've never seen. Really.
- Wylie's Words with the origins of Canadian provincial and territory names
- Di's Book Blog with her favorite drinking songs
- West of Mars with Saint Patrick's Day memories from the characters in her book
- Chicken-scratch with...wait for it...yoga for chickens. (Srsly.)
- Christine d'Abo with what she loves about Saint Patrick's Day
- Live Your Dog's Life with thirteen facts about herself
- Random Musings rails against firewalls at workplaces...hers, specifically
- Jaci Burton
- Tilly Greene with attractive actors
- The Goat Rodeo with reasons she's glad to go home this weekend
- Joystory with projects that will be impacted by an upcoming library closure
- Wild Daisies with favorite TV shows
- Elixir with facts about Ostara (spring holiday of rebirth and renewal)
- Ryan Velting with a rant
- Busy's Daily Photos & Memes with movies she would rather not have seen
- Jon Tillman with ways he spends his time
- Sleeping Mommy celebrates her new house
- Geekwif with things she could do to get fired
- Miss Wisabus with things she didn't learn in college
- Living My Dream with things that relax her
- ciò è me with pet peeves
- Cheaper than Therapy with great movie entrances
- The Screaming Pages with places she's applied for a job
- CraZedMoM with things completed, and planned
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