“Well, the night is long. Every poet with a sense of dignity should have they own dictionary” Nicanor Parra
The tools section is a quite free and changing part of this blog. Basically, it depicts lists of useful words that have been hovering around whilst I work, and why not, are made here accessible to fellow translators for help and inspiration. In february I have featured a handy rhyming dictionary and a list of words that came about and are less prone to be known – just for having them at hand 🙂
Note for speakers of English as a second language: the words that are deformed have an asterisk to ware you, that they are not legal English
| Rhymes | Private Dictionary |
|---|---|
| hick flick slick stick tick pick nick blick | arrested conjure dusk edgewise falter lovely flesh grieve haggard hasten hover around quirk |
| theft heft left cleft deft bereft cheft weft adeft* | rustle slant sway sunset treacherous twig tips tide vein (sense) warp |
| bike strike like Mike hike IKE | weave |
| dust bust gust just lust must rust trust | |
| lean team beam esteem steam mean spleen been dean preen green umpteen keen preteen seen clean | |
| stuck luck tuck muck duck buck | |
| clod rot lot bot sod | |
| aloof proof hoof roof woof | |
| bunch crunch munch lunch hunch brunch punch | |
| steak freak lake make streak break sake | |
| bent meant lent rent spent indent cent scent dent relent salient tent spent repelent |