Cup of Chicha: Getting to Know U

Getting to Know U

It’s too bad that, when it comes to writing fiction, I try to use words most people know. As Forthright’s Phronistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources proves, some of English’s most unusual words are not only helpful, but beautiful
�Maybe I should just become a poet.

Here, my favorite unusual words that begin with the letter “U”:

ucalegon:: neighbour whose house is on fire
ughten:: morning twilight
ullage:: quantity by which vessel is under full capacity
ullagone:: cry of lamentation; funeral lament
uloid:: like a scar
ulosis:: formation of a scar
ultracrepidate:: to criticize beyond sphere of one�s knowledge
umbel:: mass of flowers springing from a single center
umbiliciform:: shaped like a navel
unasinous:: being equally stupid
unbosom:: to pour out; to tell freely
underwit:: inferior wit; half-wit
ungual:: of or bearing a claw, hoof, or talon
unifilar:: having only one thread or wire
univocalic:: having only one vowel; written passage using only one vowel
unseel:: to unsew the eyes of
upspeak:: to begin to speak
uranophobia:: fear of heaven
usageaster:: self-appointed and conservative language usage expert
uvelloid:: resembling a small cluster of grapes

Posted by nchicha on September 09, 2004, 07:18 PM | TrackBack (602)

Comments

Some people thrive on big words. How else to forget the uloid discomfort of our limited understanding. Please satisfy my linguistic needs and desires. Forget about being humble to please the underwitlings. Unbosom yourself, Good Woman. Let us accept our uranophobia…for we do arise from about the same point—as in the case of the geranium, milkweed, onion, or chive.

P.S. You are a wonderful writer.

Posted by Giustin at September 10, 2004 02:34 AM

O I loved this—-(could you do another favorite letter—pretty please?) of course, some of them bring up the question of pronunciation.

So many words, so many humiliations of my nose-in-a-book youth. First one that pops to mind is psuedo that I unwittingly pronounced Suede-OH. The shame.

Posted by bluepoppy at September 10, 2004 12:19 PM

I have always liked ululate.
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/ululate

Posted by Manuel at September 10, 2004 07:05 PM

my own wordly obsessions have to do with their wandering through time and space , changing shape and meaning , sometimes getting amnesia and forgetting who they were altogether .

dent de lion > dandelion
granada > pomme grenate > pomegranate
pensamiento > pens�e > pansy

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