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Post by Mumsey on Jan 4, 2021 18:33:37 GMT -5
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Post by gardendmpls on Jan 4, 2021 21:06:27 GMT -5
Rime is a word used a lot more in poetry than in everyday conversation, although in poetry it has different meanings. One is frost from fog, usually appearing in poems about the sea or the cold. The other is a historical alternative spelling of rhyme, as in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. There is also a linguistic meaning "In linguistics, rime also refers to the part of the word that follows the initial phoneme. In this context, the initial phoneme is called the onset." So I learned something new too (which is a short rhyme, sort of- Rime of the Ancient Garden Poster). writingexplained.org/rime-vs-rhyme-difference
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Jan 4, 2021 22:44:10 GMT -5
Rime of the Ancient Garden Poster That's cute!
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Post by Wheelgarden on Jan 18, 2021 17:00:34 GMT -5
The two rounds of rime we had last week were really nice. No pogonip seen, but the rime was pretty.
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Post by tom 🕊 on Jan 18, 2021 18:39:55 GMT -5
Wikipedia: "In the western United States, freezing fog may be referred to as pogonip. It occurs commonly during cold winter spells, usually in deep mountain valleys.... In The Old Farmer's Almanac, in the calendar for December, the phrase "Beware the Pogonip" regularly appears. In his anthology Smoke Bellew, Jack London described a pogonip which surrounded the main characters, killing one of them."
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Post by gardendmpls on Jan 18, 2021 23:13:30 GMT -5
Jack London described a pogonip which surrounded the main characters, killing one of them." I wonder if that was like the "Killing Frost" that somehow killed the girl that chased after her horse, Wildfire", instead of just turning her tomato and squash leaves brown and wilted.
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Post by tom 🕊 on Jan 19, 2021 7:20:00 GMT -5
I wonder if that was like the "Killing Frost" that somehow killed the girl that chased after her horse For a fun folk etymology, "pogonip" is pronounced pŏg′ə-nĭp′. It's nipping ("A sharp, stinging quality, as of frosty air").
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Post by gardendmpls on Jan 19, 2021 9:17:42 GMT -5
tom 🕊,Once read that when Jack London was a young man working as a sailor, he would learn five new words a day from the dictionary. Write them down and hang them from a rope over his bed. Pogonip might have been one of them. Alternate definition, what that comic strip possum drank on a cold winter's night.
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