Hindustan Times
The Guardian’s books blog has reported how some poets at a recent literary festival were asked which word each of them hated and why.
Here is what the poet Philip Wells said: “‘Pulchritude’ is certainly up there on my blacklist. It violates all the magical impulses of balanced onomatopoeic language — it of course means ‘beautiful’, but its meaning is nothing of the sort, being stuffed to the brim with a brutally latinate cudgel of barbaric consonants. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, July 27, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged barbaric consonants, Guardian, Philip Wells, phrases, Pulchritude, words
