Joy--Princess--Smiling

The Scout Report, last week, highlighted Word Count. I found Word Count mesmerising. It encourages the same pattern-forming serendipity as a magnetic poetry kit but with tens of thousands of words. "Joy" is two words before "princess" and five words before "smiling." Try typing in your name.

Sometimes when I write, the words get stuck as if I suddenly can't seem to tap into the abundant wellspring of the English language. Word Count might be a useful tool to get the words flowing again.

Okay, here's a good one. I went backwards from "wellspring" (number 80459) to find the next word I could imagine using in a sentence. At 80454, I found "musicologist," a word I didn't know until a few months ago when my nephew decided that's what he wants to be when he graduates from college. I learned from Andrew that at least one graduate program in Musicology is delivered concurrently with a Masters in Library Science degree, preparing students to be Music Librarians among other things.     #

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