Wordie: Eldritch: Comments

Comment by yarb, 3 months ago

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:35:41 +0000

Am I the only one here to think of the singer from Sisters of Mercy?

I'll get me cloak...

Comment by bilby, 3 months ago

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:07:14 +0000

It's a dull word. Could be the name of a stodgy cricket player who only scores runs between mid-on and mid-off. "Yes, it's a fine knock by Eldritch today who looks as if he'll make ten by lunch. All in singles of course but lovely technique. I haven't seen a left elbow so high since Kippax and indeed Trumper."

Comment by pterodactyl, 3 months ago

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:16:12 +0000

Ditch-phuca? In lieu of actually knowing what you mean, I have to assume that you are talking about some sort of Old World chupacabra.

Poor Ethelred!

Comment by chained_bear, 3 months ago

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:06:39 +0000

Blecch. Not to me. I was in a production of "The Rimers of Eldritch" years ago and I loathed it. So now the word makes me think of that experience. *shudders*

Comment by sionnach, 3 months ago

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:12:11 +0000

There's something remarkably satisfying about this word. Eldritch. Eldritch. Eldritch.

To me, it conjures up weird images of Ethelred the Unready, waking up in some kind of a ditch, after a particularly unsatisfying altercation with the ditch-phuca.

Comment by seanmeade, about 1 year ago

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:47:19 +0000

etymology is 'elf kingdom' (the word for kingdom in Old English being 'rice' like in the German 'reich')

Comment by brtom, about 1 year ago

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:30:10 +0000

"I anticipated some such reception, he began with an eldritch laugh, for which, it seems, history is to blame."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14

Lovecraftian!

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:44:50 +0000