Hub 100 With 26 Interesting Words In Alphabetical Order

Absolutely
Becoming
Competent

Definitely
Efficient
Fabrication

Greatly
Hurried
Interpretation

Just
Knowing
Limitations

Minding
Nothingness
Openly

Persistently
Questioning
Rationality

Striving
Tremendously
Upward

Visiting
Wondrous
Xanadu

Yielding
Zilch

I add interesting words to my vocabulary on a daily basis as I delve through old reference books and dictionaries. Some of them are long past their sell-by-date but the origins of the words make for fascinating reading.

Mark Bronze Hub 100

As part of hub 100 I wanted to write just the bare 26 words and leave it at that. This is not possible and there is little hope for my 10 word haiku article. It seems that an additional 39 Haiku would be required, which is a great shame as a single Haiku contain the most expressive, engaging, intuitive and interesting words.

26 word sentences

There are many sentences in English which contain all 26 letters of the alphabet and one of the shortest ones is well known.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

All of the letters from A to Z are used in this sentence and that seems to be its only merit. The real challenge is to write in alphabetical order using just 26 words. The problem with writing such a sentence is that it is so short and a great deal of interpretation must be applied to read between the lines. Such is the case with the Haiku, the shortest of all poetry forms. The maximum allowed syllables is 17 but many Japanese poems have as little as 10 or 12 syllables in their Haiku.

Imitative words are lively interesting words

Crash, bang, wallop are onomatopoeic words which squirt and whizz from the page when you read them. These echoic words delight with a whoosh of excitement when you read them. Even the less exciting ones spoken in a whisper may whimper and splatter or end with an undignified splosh at our literary feet. I like short words and am not a lover of the flibbertigibbet and the incessant yackety-yak as they yatter on and on yada yada yada.

Explaining Poetry and Art

There is nothing worse than listening to some expert explaining about a poem or an artwork. See what you see and read what you will and then decide for yourself the meaning of the piece. Do we really need to be told how to interpret ‘a host of golden daffodils’ or the ‘Mona Lisa’ or even the ‘Jabberwocky’?

Brevity, alas, is not for online articles and the Haiku writers suffer most.