#Pieces of april full
A full picture of April? Not yet, but we have only begun.Īnother April opening is that provided by T. But if you center the red dot that connects these two, pieces of April suddenly come to life: the main holidays associated with the month appear, along with some other things that April partakes of: spring, and the calendar of course. Centering the word only brings up its three letter abbreviation to keep the month company. The Visual Thesaurus appears at first to tell us little about April. We set off to examine April (the word mind you, not the month) in a way that is only made possible by the technology of today, by using components of our electronic word tool kit: these include the Visual Thesaurus, a concordancer, and a corpus.
This got us to thinking, as the rain tapped against the window of the Lounge, about whether we could form a reliable picture of April (the month mind you, not the word) by looking at the linguistic company it keeps. The question, posed in the first line of her poem Spring, is answered somewhat cynically by the poem's end - but not without noting, along the way, some of the things that bring April to mind: beauty, flowers, "little leaves opening stickily." To what purpose, April, do you return again? Vincent Millay, Language Lounge is asking this month: