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February 24, 2011 at 11:04 am #988978
C&C always welcome. Michelle
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Every painting is a new adventure.February 24, 2011 at 3:18 pm #1146457What a lovely zylophone! Very nice, Michelle.
I think I knew from the beginning that it was going to be “xylophone”, but I was intent on trying to find an alternative. So I pulled out my dictionary and read the whole two pages of “X” words.
Being the desert rat that I am, my personal choice would’ve been “xerophyte”. But I, grudgingly, admit that the concept might be a bit too much for a little boy’s introduction to the letter “X”. It would be like using, say for “A”, the word “antidistablishmentarianism” (which you’d be hard put to even find as one word in a dictionary). Well, maybe not that complex a concept, but you see my point I think.
The simplest word might be “X-ray”. But, for one, it starts with a capital, which breaks the whole pattern of using lowercase for the first letter. Plus there’s that hyphen and the concept of a compound word, which is getting pretty advanced just in spelling concepts. And then I think about trying to explain the concept of the word itself. Heheh.
You search the whole continent of North America for some place that has a full-body X-ray screen. You finally find one at a resort for “skeletophiles” called, of course, “Skeleton Resort” in the remote desert of southwest Arizona. After you manage to get there and are about to use the screen, you say to your little boy, “Now let’s stand here out front while Daddy goes behind the screen and does a song and dance routine to the music of “Old Bones”. You leave as soon as possible because all they show on TV in the 200-dollar-a-day rooms are reruns of X-ray film clips, and finally get home a few hundred dollars poorer.
No, not gonna happen, I’m guessing.
So I guess that pretty much leaves “xylophone”. It’s bad enough that the “X” is pronounced like a “Z”. Have fun explaining that to your son. Heheh. But at least the concept of the word “xylophone” is simple enough.
Geesh, I hope “Y” and “Z” are easier. I’m X-hausted just from “X”.
Nelson. C/C always welcome. Art is a glimpse of the metaphysics of one's mind made concrete, the voice of one's philosophy and sense of life. Art is the human race's metaphysical mirror.
February 25, 2011 at 10:24 am #1146458You’re funny!
X-ray could have been a possibility but a xylophone is more colourful. The hyphen wouldn’t have been a problem as you will see with the yo-yo I’m about to post.
C&C always welcome. Michelle
mkmcreations.com
Every painting is a new adventure.March 1, 2011 at 7:10 am #1146460Nice one, love the brilliance of the colours.
Best wishes
Gary
“It’s never too late to be who you might have been. —George Eliot aka Mary Ann EvansMarch 1, 2011 at 10:09 am #1146459 -
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