A Love for Unusual Words

When I was younger I loved ‘collecting’ words, the more unusual, the better. I enjoyed playing with their sound in my head and thinking about when and where I could use them. This was not, I am well aware, a mainstream interest (!) but it inculcated in me a lifelong love of lexical oddities. So, what word from childhood will I choose?

Eponymous, meaning something that has the same name as the title of a book, play or record is a delightful word. Complex in spelling and rarely used, it was an immediate favourite. When I found out that the adverb form was Eponymously, and that it was the root of the phrase Eponymously Titled, I had this whole scenario in my head based around a fictitious group who really should exist. The band Eponymously Titled would release their debut album, the Eponymously Titled Eponymously Titled! I suppose now, it could equally apply to a podcast! It made me laugh then and still makes me grin now.