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ap english test, orihon, amphigory, ebullient, The Bald Soprano
2002-05-05 � 12:26 p.m.

hello,

i have to take the ap english test tommorrow. it will be an interesting experieience for all.

i bet you all are going through withdrawl from my daily words. i have been saving up some good ones.

orihon (OR-ee-hon) noun

A book or manuscript folded like an accordion: a roll of paper

inscribed on one side only, folded backwards and forwards.

[From Japanese, ori (fold), + hon (book).]

Here's a picture of an orihon:

http://www2.odn.ne.jp/reliure/imgs3/k_orihon.jpg

Then there is origami [ori + -gami, kami (paper)], the Japanese art of paper folding that can coax a whole menagerie from a few flat sheets of paper.

"He created an orihon binding -- an accordion-style technique that allowed the book to expand to more than 60 feet." Veronica Chestnut, Digital Printing at Harvard, Electronic

Publishing, Jul 1997.

amphigory (AM-fi-gor-ee) noun, also amphigouri

A nonsensical piece of writing, usually in verse form, typically composed as a parody.

[From French amphigouri.]

"More jeers than cheers currently greet the amphigories of Father Divine, and the followers of kindred dark-town messiahs are noisier than they are numerous." Mark Gauvreau Judge, Justice to George S. Schuyler, Policy Review (Washington), Aug/Sep 2000.

ebullient ih-BUL-yuhnt, adjective:

1. Overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement; high-spirited.

2. Boiling up or over.

The glasses he wore for astigmatism gave him a deceptively clerkish appearance, for he had an ebullient, gregarious personality, a hot temper, and an outsized imagination. --Jon Lee Anderson, [1]Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

He was no longer an ebullient, energetic adolescent. --Linda Simon, Genuine Reality: A Life of William James

Sometimes he would come back from the Drenchery Club holding on to the walls till he got to my office, where he'd be jolly and ebullient. At other times, he'd return morose. --Harriet Wasserman, Handsome Is: Adventures with Saul Bellow

Ebullient comes from Latin ebullire, "to bubble up," from e-, "out of, from" + bullire, "to bubble, to boil."

so aaahhhhhhh yeah, i uuuuhhhhhhhh don't uhhhh really ahhhh have uhhhh anything to uhhhh say.

tonight i will be viewing Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano. i am very excited. Oliver Corrigan is great for choosing to do his project on it. i gotts go, but remember kids, brushing your teeth means nothing if you do not floss. have a nice day!!

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