Studying intensely yields many benefits, true. But one of the finer ones is the discovery of some truly kick-ass words in the English language.
Case in point: tintinnabulous.
Or it's equally delicious derivation: tintinnabulation.
It's one of those rare words which commands attention on the page, and is a gas to say. Go ahead. Don't you feel better?
Incidentally, it means the ringing of bells, or like the ringing of bells, but that hardly matters.
So, thank you, Thomas De Quincey, and your drug habit, for introducing tintinnabulous to my life in your Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. A good time was had by all.
Robyn
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