What are your favourite words?
I love serendipitous, melancholy, and fortuitous.
Adamantine, sliver, and succor.
And, oh, perhaps a hundred others. They inevitably change with the finesse or jolt of a passing mood.
Words are surprising things, the way that they latch hold of our imaginations.
Some visit but a moment; others stay for a lifetime.
At the top of my list?
FROCK.
Always.
Aside from its dictionary definition(s), and the fact that it is fun to say, the word conjures up, for me, a kaleidoscope of vivid images that have less to do with fact, and more to do with feeling.
Frock is bold, artistic, spirited, rebellious, chic, and imaginative. It is, in short, the heart of this endeavor.
What of the front half of the name?
Font is the foundation upon which everything is built.
It embraces my love of language, of writing, of communication.
Font is a wonderful word in its own right.
Together, they represent everything that I hope to accomplish with this blog.
❤ Maedez
Next Time: A Brief History of Font and Frock
Font and Frock 
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Melancholy.
Acerbic.
Peripatetic.
Tawdry. (fun etymology on this one)
Trout.
Lachrymose.
I LOVE lachrymose.
Gonna have to add that one to my WordWildWeft !
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Those are great! I rather enjoy lachrymose, too.
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I love Santorini. I’ve never visited, but I adore the sound of the word.
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I love hearing about other people’s favourite words! Santorini is a fun one, too!
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I am curious about the story behind FROCK. My favourite words in English: astronomical, crestfallen, melancholia, mélange 🙂
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Congratulations on the new blog! I’m curious about the story behind FROCK. My favourite words in English: astronomical, crestfallen, melancholia, mélange 🙂
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Melancholy/melancholia are pretty popular, it seems! I like crestfallen a lot, too. There are so many good words!
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🙂
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When you say “frock” is a fun word to say, the first thing that came to mind was Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes saying “smock”. If you don’t know that particular strip just Goggle “Calvin and Hobbes smock”.
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Oh, I totally forgot about that particular strip! It’s hilarious. Thanks for the reminder. And I think that “smock” is a fun word to say, too.
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