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Hugh's cat Seren, short for serendipity, might like to know that "seren" is Welsh for "star". On tired words, is it really tiredness, ie over-use, you're all objecting to in these words? By that argument, the two most tired words in poetry should be "love" and "death" and I'm not bored with either yet. It sounds more like what an editor friend (there's an oxymoron) calls "too poetic", ie words you don't find outside poems. I hate "hue" for that reason, no-one ever says "what a pretty hue". But I bet someone could come up with a poem it sounded right in. I think allegedly tired words are just ones which have been used too much in the one context or with the same old set of associations; they need waking up and using differently. Calling a butterfly "tremulous" would be pretty naff, but using the word of a hippopotamus might give you a whole new insight into the creature. ===== Sheenagh Pugh http://x-stream.fortunecity.com/sonicst/68 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%