17 December 2022

Exercise

Above you can see a word cloud. It has  been created on the Geograph website to tell me which words crop up the most in the titles I have given to the 17,162 pictures I have submitted to Geograph. You may have played around with word clouds yourself at some time in the past few years.

Just as a little writing exercise, I gathered those words and with just a few extra words I made an intelligible piece of writing that included all of the above. You don't have to be mad to manage the "Yorkshire Pudding" blog but it helps:-

Near the top of the moor edge road
A brook runs north off through a wood
By a lane and under a bridge
To the reservoir in Rivelin le Valley
Before rushing on east
Down the hill to Sheffield -
Joining the river by an inn
Close to an old water mill
Up at the end
Where a path from above Edale
Heads west along a street with a view
Looking over to the park
At St John’s School
By Fox Tree Hall pub
And a farm house south of a tor
From which a silvery beck might be seen
Far away

An interesting exercise but I guess I could do better if I spent longer working on it.

28 comments:

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    1. It's a rather weird blogpost I think.

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  2. I love words. Language is a gift, often sorely abused.

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    1. Thank you for finding something to say about this JayCee.

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  3. Splendid work, poet.

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    1. Can poets fix plumbing?
      Can poets point walls?
      Or do they sit on grassy banks
      Playing with their b****?

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  4. I thought I found a word you omitted, but no. Who has the mental stamina to check if you did include all of the words. Rather clever though.

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    1. I did include all the words but it the same word began with a capital and a small case letter, I felt no obligation to include it twice.

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  5. Let's go into real cloud at top o' Moor Edge Road.
    Ah waant to see chimneys o' Sheffield in all their glory from t' Top.
    Is that Yorkshire enough for thee and Tasker Dunham ?
    Let's take English language back from fowk in t' computer world, our Neil.
    There's too much talk o' goin into cloud when there is no bleddy cloud.

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    1. Tha's allus 'ad thy eid int cloods mester!

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    2. Happen tha might be right lad, can ye buy us a pint till pension day?

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    3. Nobbut 'Orlicks for thee lad.

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  6. "tree" is in the word cloud twice but you only used it once. (that is what my mother would have said) Me? I think you did very well. (My mum was the sort who would say "only 98%? What happened to the other 2%?")

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    1. "Tree" isn't the only word that is listed both with a capital and a lower case first letter. I didn't feel bound by that.

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  7. Very clever. Useful as a memory jogger too.

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    1. Lord knows that I need one of those Carol! When I woke up this morning I didn't even know what day it is.

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  8. I've got nowt to say. I do like the poem print font.

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  9. I like it.
    The last year of elementary school, we were given a few words and the task to write an essay around them. I loved such tasks and remember one distinctly; three words were given: Gisela - Geld - Kette.

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    1. Gisela is a girl's name. Geld is gold and kette means chain... I think!

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    2. Yes, Gisela is a female first name. Geld is money and Kette can mean chain but the intention was clearly necklace (the same word). Stories were made up about how a girl named Gisela wanted to give her mother (or someone else, according to whose version you read) a necklace as a gift but did not have the money to buy it. Did she steal? Did she take a job as a babysitter or paper girl? Or did Kette indeed mean chain, and Gisela was a woman married to a rich man... chained to him by his money, so to speak? It's all up to your imagination.

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  10. It is an interesting exercise -- very like something an English teacher would assign. :)

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  11. A great way to keep the mind active, and creative,

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    1. We have to find something to keep those brain cells busy.

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  12. Pretty clever. I must admit I had to look up "silvery beck." I still am not sure I understand what it means.

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    1. A beck is just a brook or stream - silvery because it's catching the light.

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  13. We always circle back to our first loves, don't we?
    Poetry and the countryside all in one here

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