For Christmas this year M bought me a 1986 Capricorn Rhyming Dictionary (Aid to Rhyme). Its “carefully arranged groupings of the words, and their endings” are not only poetic helps; they are themselves poetic:
ATIC
Acrobatic, anastigmatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, Asiatic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, chromatic, climatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, Eleatic, emblematic, emphatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, fluviatic, hieratic, hypostatic, idiomatic, lunatic, lymphatic, mathematic, melodramatic, miasmatic, morganatic, operatic, phlegmatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prismatic, problematic, rheumatic, sabbatic, semi-aquatic, static, systematic, thematic, theocratic, trichromatic
IES
Apple pies, cries, dragon-flies, fireflies, flies, fortifies, lies, pies, plies, ratifies, skies, squash pies, supplies, tries, wailing-cries
UE
Accrue, argue, avenue, barbecue, blue, clue, construe, continue, cue, curlycue, due, ensue, flue, glue, hue, imbue, ingenue, marble-statue, misconstrue, out-argue, overdue, pursue, queue, rescue, retinue, revenue, revue, ring-true, robin’s egg blue, rue, skyblue, slue, statue, subdue, sue, true, true-blue, undervalue, undue, untrue, value, vendue, virtue
One Comment
KTdid
I read your post
and what did ensue
was a pining for me to
have this book, too!
…
(what marvelous reading!)
Kbs