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NOT In My Dictionary
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NOT In My Dictionary |
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Bonnie j Senior Member
since 2003-06-27
Posts 1588Ohio 
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NOT In My Dictionary (1910) His quill...... smoothly gliding across each page- He leans forward into the dimly lit room He tries to decipher the meaning of each word “It will be so much easier for the towns people to understand after I translate each meaning and thought.” ANGER: NOT in my dictionary This would incite behavior unbecoming to my gentle readers. ANTIGONE: The heroine of one of the tragedies of Sophocies. Yes! This is much more suitable. BATHROOM: NOT in my dictionary Why would we need a separate room when you can look out upon a beautiful garden in the summer and in the winter take a warm bath in the kitchen? BATRACHIA: A class of animal comprising cold-blooded oviparous vertebrates which are destitute of scales. Delicate ladies may faint reading this word, but the gentlemen of our time need to know of these things. BUTTOCK: NOT in my dictionary They would run me out on a rail if I dare grace these pages with that wicked word. BUTTERINE: Is a substance which, when well made, is hardly distinguishable from good butter. This is much more suitable. Yes! Indeed. KISS: NOT in my dictionary This word is not for the delicate ears of the genteel ladies of our society. KITCHENER: Sir Horatio Herbert, Viscount Kitchener of Khartum, British general born in 1850. This is a brilliant general of our time. Everyone should know of this man. AH! The hour is late my eyes are terribly tired. For now I must rest, tomorrow is another day. Editor’s Note. (1910) From Webster’s Home and Office Encyclopedia It can be asserted without fear of contradiction the seventy-five per cent, of the subjects treated in large, many-volumed, and expensive Encyclopedias will never be referred to by the people who purchase them and of the other twenty-five per cent, that not over one-half of it is intelligible to the average reader. Love BonBon  |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
hmmmm, interesting, you have certainly served up quit a buffet of words here...much different from your usual style, which proves one thingy girlfriend Your never getting older, but like a fine wine, your formenting our senses with a fragrance of elegance and perfumed incense. An extremely well written poem BRAVO!!!! |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
BONNIE~ Dang ... this is just WONDERFUL~ I could just picture Webster in deep concentration over each word~ What a creative process is this piece~! THANK YOU~ *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
Excellent write Bonnie J. JL  |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Bonnie -- I really enjoyed reading this. You are too cute, lady! ....jo |
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