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oroboros commented on the word gonomony
"For decades, New Yorker writer Alastair Reid has been collecting words, weird ones. In Ounce, Dice, Trice, the words play tricks on each other and on the reader. gongoozler, piddocks, mumruffin. Reid twists them into rhymes and draws odd connections between them in this book part dictionary, part gonomony receptacle...With black-and-white sketches by painter Ben Shahn, Ounce, Dice, Trice amounts to great fun for the average gongozzler (idle person) of any age." –The Bergen County Record
February 17, 2010
sionnach commented on the word gonomony
Ooh! I actually *have* this fine book!!
February 17, 2010
reesetee commented on the word gonomony
And here's the definition from that very same book: "A gonomony is any strange object that is difficult to name, that is curiously unlike anything else, and that serves no useful purpose."
I have days like that.
February 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the word gonomony
I have lists like that.
February 18, 2010