Dredle. Fliggle. Crunge

Nursery rhymes, fairy tales and animal stories open children's eyes and ears to language and its textures. Writing benefits from exercises in playfulness where words collide in a variety of ways.

Whatever is a runcible spoon created by Edward Lear?
"The owl and the pussycat dined on mince and slices of quince which they ate with a runcible spoon."
A polomphious duck caught spotted frogs with one.

Ogden Nash played with animal one liners. "If called by a panther. Don't antler." His pun-like rhymes added humor.

It energizes the brain to play with language and logic enlivened with humor. Imaginative characters arise with whimsy and rhyme.

Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky inspires word inventions.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.


Creative Write:   Create an animal, a verb and an object.

Animals   arteal      drave     glosh

Verbs      trerump   fliggle   dredle

Objects   snudera  crunge    jedyrie


The arteal terumped into the crunge. Not far away a drave figgled a snudera. Several gloshes dredle each jedryie. How many arteals could figgle into a crunge with a snudera?

Play with words. Add to my list and hrumple on!