Intro to Community Week: Diction's Dicty Delights

[poetree_admin]

• diction (dikSHən), noun: the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing


• dicty (dɪkti) AAVE, adjective: snobbish; ostentatiously stylish; pretentious


• delight (diˈlīt), noun: great pleasure

As detailed in the signup post, this week we dart delightedly into wordplay, word choice, and words themselves as whimsy-worthy of celebration in their own right.


MONDAY: untonuggan: 'To Dye Today' [poem]

TUESDAY: poetree_admin: Alliterative Amusements [wordplay game]

WEDNESDAY: raze: 'Bird is the Word' [poem]

THURSDAY: Day of silver silence

FRIDAY: lnhammer: Dictioning Hopkins's "The Windhover"

SATURDAY: Day of silver silence II

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Last edited 7/28/13 by jjhunter