Dredle a Dynado

Nursery rhymes, fairy tales and animal stories keep children's eyes and ears open 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 percolated with humor.  Imaginative characters arise with whimsy and rhyme. I like to tinker with words to encourage curiosity and tickle my creativity.  Lewis Carroll inspires me to create my own words.


Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll


'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.




Animals                        Verbs                            Objects
arteal                             trerump                       crunge
drave                             fliggle                           snudera
glosh                             dredle                            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!