Wonderful words

Do you love certain words especially. Aren’t some words are simply perfect for what they represent?

The word cookie comes to mind this minute. I brought back some cookies from Chicago for Heaven Admin, and I realized that cookie is a perfect word. Could there be a better word to represent cookies?

I also brought back some cannoli, and I think that’s a perfect word as well. Heaven Admin tasted one from a fabulous bakery in Chicago, one that my daughter and I had to take two buses to and two buses back in order to get them.

When Heaven Admin took a bite of a cannoli, he said: “Holy cannoli!”

Every language must have its absolutely perfect words. Do you have some favorite words to tell us about in any language?

Posted by Gloria on April 13th, 2010 under these topics
Food, Writing in General, Godwriting Journal

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Reply from Jack van Raders on April 13, 2010

What is a canoli the Americans have some strange foods It took me years to find out what a Bagel was, just a bun with a hole in it. But then the Dutch have special foods that the Australians and possible the Americans too could not eat The English are enthused about their Yorkshire pudding or Sour Kraut for Germany. So enjoy your canoli and I will eat salted liquerage. I jhope Heaven Admin does not gain to much weight Love you all Jack

Reply from emilia on April 13, 2010

This is a pistachio “cannolo siciliano”!
Divine.

Reply from Dianita on April 13, 2010

The OH MY GOD Highway in the Rockies paints a very realistic picture for me of turns and sheer drop offs of an unpaved road into the clouds.

Reply from Normand Bourque on May 10, 2010

Notice that words we particularly like have a familiar, diminutive form.

Cookie is of course a diminutive but not of «cook» but of koeke ‘cake’, in Middle Dutch and the diminutive is koekje.

Cannolo (plural: cannoli) is also a diminutive of canna ‘reed’ which means a tube and you have the french “cannelle” which means ‘cinnamon’ and represents the hollow tube of the cinnamon stick. Does not the pistaccio cannolo on the picture looks like a stuffed cinnamon stick?

Reply from Gloria on May 10, 2010

Ah, so interesting, the origin of words. What an amazing thing that language came about. And the similarities and differences between language, and how language affects us.

I hadn’t thought about the pull of diminutive words. You’re so right.

I look up the etymology of countries’ names for Heaven News every once in a while. Portugal may mean orange Interestingly, even in Arabic, there seems to be a closely related root word that means orange.

I bet you could tell us more.

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