<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366597" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Unused, but perfectly good words</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lonely words, in need of some usage<br>Perfectly good, yet almost unknown<br>Let’s take a quick look in my dictionary book<br>Let’s not leave these words all alone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For example, under A: The word “Abscission”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s quite usual to say “leaves fall from the trees”<br>But we could also say, with utmost precision<br>We could use a word that we very rarely see<br>When we say “leaves fall from trees in abscission”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That’s probably the first time… in quite a long time<br>That word, that means “the natural parting of a leaf from a tree”<br>That that word, has now… seen the light of day<br> could become quite common, if used by you and me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can just hear people exclaiming, as they peer up above<br>As the fall’s colors fill their vision<br>“We’re amazed, we’re agog, we’re simply in love<br>At the trees…in the Fall… in abscission”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We can do it, you and I, we can set this word free<br>But in our mission, must not show indecision! ! ! <br> We must casually let it drop, in daily conservation, you and me<br>And this Fall will become filled with “abscission”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Whalen">David Whalen</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366597" data-title="Unused, but perfectly good words de David Whalen" data-description="Lonely words, in need of some usage Perfectly good, yet almost unknown Let’s take a quick look in my dictionary book Let’s not leave these words all alone For example, under A: The word “Abscission” It’s quite usual to say “leaves fa..."></div> </div> </div>

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