My English teacher once told us that poetry is the "perfect words in the perfect order." At the time, I thought that was the most profound statement ever. It was one of those sentiments that hits you like a big yellow schoolbus (Cady from Mean Girls..) and makes you soak up every letter in silence until true meaning is uncovered. Ever since, I've been forming my own personal collection of Wordly Wise-worthy words (alliteration. whew) to create a very cool personal dictionary. Have you ever seen the Princess Diaries movie when Mia's choir sings the song "I catch a falling star and put it in my pocket...never let it fade away..."? Well, I do that too, but I catch words, not stars.
I'll share them every so often.
Because this is all about nifty ABCs, the first edition is letter-themed.
missive: I saw this word written on someone else's blog and fell in love with it. It means letter or note. But to me, I think this is a kick-butt kind of note. Like, "Yeah, I'm writing you a letter, but if you don't respond? So what! I'm cool enough to not care, because I'm cool enough to use the word missive in the first place."
billet-doux: This was the Dictionary.com Word of the Day on Valentine's Day. I thought it was cute because it means love letter. ("Billet" in French means ticket or note). French is a romantic language, Paris a romantic place, billet-doux a love note...it just fits.
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