Comments on: What do you call your Wordhord? http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-do-you-call-your-wordhord/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:06:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: prabha muthukrishnan http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-do-you-call-your-wordhord/comment-page-1/#comment-186267 prabha muthukrishnan Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:03:00 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=3129#comment-186267 Wordhord ! Wow what a sophisticated word for "vocabulary". Wordhord !
Wow what a sophisticated word for “vocabulary”.

]]> By: Ben http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-do-you-call-your-wordhord/comment-page-1/#comment-183172 Ben Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:07:40 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=3129#comment-183172 You've omitted my favorite: lexicon. Nobody has put this word to better use than Karen Elizabeth Gordon. A couple of citations, both from The Well-Tempered Sentence: 1. She winced at his response of such a gratuitous "Wow": it said little for his seizure of her meaning and even less for his lexicon. 2. "You are my darling, my d-a-r-l-i-n-g," said the spelling master to his rapt and evasive pupil as he opened her eyes to a whole lexicon of shame. You’ve omitted my favorite: lexicon. Nobody has put this word to better use than Karen Elizabeth Gordon. A couple of citations, both from The Well-Tempered Sentence:

1. She winced at his response of such a gratuitous “Wow”: it said little for his seizure of her meaning and even less for his lexicon.

2. “You are my darling, my d-a-r-l-i-n-g,” said the spelling master to his rapt and evasive pupil as he opened her eyes to a whole lexicon of shame.

]]> By: --Deb http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-do-you-call-your-wordhord/comment-page-1/#comment-183167 --Deb Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:12:45 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=3129#comment-183167 Ooh, I've never heard that, but I like it! What a fabulous synonym for "vocabulary." Ooh, I’ve never heard that, but I like it! What a fabulous synonym for “vocabulary.”

]]> By: Jay http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-do-you-call-your-wordhord/comment-page-1/#comment-183028 Jay Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:19:14 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=3129#comment-183028 I have to be honest. I don't separate my speaking (or spoken) and reading (or written) vocabularies; I don't feel like I can. If I read a word and learn it, I attempt to use it in speech where appropriate. What do you think? I have to be honest. I don’t separate my speaking (or spoken) and reading (or written) vocabularies; I don’t feel like I can. If I read a word and learn it, I attempt to use it in speech where appropriate. What do you think?

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