Vocabulary Fun
(Sesquipedalian)
by Eve Adam, a.k.a. Harmonic Eve
The other day my boyfriend found
A word he thought I'd know.
He was so sure that I was that;
I said it wasn't so.
We looked it up in Webster's book
To see just how to say it.
(Vo-cab-u-lary is a game;
Sometimes I like to play it.)
This magic word was new to me;
Perhaps it's new to you.
Sess-kwuh-puh-DAY-lee-ann ----
If you can say it, do!
I find it every bit as fun
As Mary Poppins' word.
This word is REAL; 'tho not made up,
It's one I'd never heard.
Sess-kwuh-puh-DAY-lee-ann
Is not too BAD, I see.
Look it up, be LIKE that too ---
That's how you WANT to be?
Ses-qui-pe-da-lian ---
Don't ever
say it to a man --
Not if you want to seem quite glamorous
And really want him to be amorous.
by Eve Adam, a.k.a. Harmonic Eve
October 23, 24 & 30, 2008
