Like a rocket

Campanology’s  an eminently pure topic

Of which  what I know’s microscopic.

But I do like the ringing,

When the bells are all singing.

My melancholy’s been blown off like a rocket.

 

Campanology

 

 

 

1.campanology – ( ) The study of bells or of bell ringing

 

2.campanology
ˌkampəˈnɒlədʒi/
noun
noun: campanology
  1. the art or practice of bell-ringing.
Origin
mid 19th century: from modern Latin campanologia, from late Latin campana ‘bell’.

A wonderful bird is the vertigo

A wonderful bird is the Vertigo

Its head goes where its toes should go.

So if it is swollen

We could take it bowling.

For it goes where no other birds  go.

 

Vertigo is from the Latin

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If I wore these boots I’d get vertigo

vertigo

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[vur-ti-goh]
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noun, plural vertigoes, vertigines

[ver-tijuh-neez] (Show IPA).Pathology.

1.

a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being intilting or spinning surroundings.
Origin of vertigoExpand
1520-1530

1520-30; < Latin vertīgō a turning or whirling round, equivalent to vert(ere) to turn (see verse ) + -īgō noun suffix

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