Sheesh! This challenge is becoming quite the challenge indeed! The random words on Fridays have certainly been new to me in many cases – a good thing because I love learning new things. But come on Random Powers of the Literary Universe…really?!!! Could there be a more random word than this?!!!
Which brings me to today’s word, “ibidem”. In researching its use I found it to be quite controversial in its application. Rarely seen in full text, but most often abbreviated as ibid. or ib., there are strict constraints to its use, if it is even used at all!
This word is definitely one to be stored in that dark section of my brain…you know, The Vault of Useless Information! I doubt I will ever need to use it again, but for this challenge! If you dare, give it a go yourself! I promise to lavish you with accolades for your efforts! And with that, here’s what I think about the word Ibidem!
Haiku Ibidem
Dodo of a word!
Ibidem is rarely used…
(ibid. stanza one)
kat ~ 4 September 2015
Note: The Friday word of the day Haiku Challenge takes its prompt from Dictionary.com. Haikus are three line poems with 5 syllables in lines 1 and 3 and 7 syllables in the middle.
like mercury colliding... 
September 4th, 2015 at 9:03 am
Wow what a word!
LikeLiked by 1 person
September 4th, 2015 at 9:17 am
I know Lynn! I was like REALLY!?? I would much rather have liked something like serendipitous! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
September 4th, 2015 at 9:40 am
ha ha yes that would be fun and sound fun!
LikeLiked by 1 person
September 4th, 2015 at 1:11 pm
That is not an easy word to use in a haiku! Well done. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
September 4th, 2015 at 1:36 pm
Thank You! It took a few brain cells for this one! 🙂 I’m glad you liked it!
LikeLiked by 1 person
September 4th, 2015 at 9:42 pm
Perfect haiku, Kat!
I love this word, though–it just pops out of your lips as if it can’t wait to get out, and catches people’s attention! They wonder if you’re drunk, dribbling soup down your chin, or having a stroke in the language centers of your brain.
And, I bet, now that you have decided to relegate it to your mind’s recesses, it will find its way serendipitously into your consciousness soon!! 😜
LikeLiked by 1 person
September 4th, 2015 at 9:48 pm
You may be right Catherine! Having spent at least an hour with this word it is a part of me now! ☺️
LikeLiked by 1 person
September 5th, 2015 at 9:05 am
Didn’t get to this yesterday, but my submission:
ibid. – use it when?
an arcane necessity
in the research world
Have a good day.
LikeLiked by 1 person
September 5th, 2015 at 9:10 am
This is excellent Karen! Thank you for joining the challenge! Ibidem and its abbreviated alter egos are necessary evils indeed! 😊
LikeLike
September 6th, 2015 at 9:21 am
[…] needed it more than me twirling us from starlit dust she never said goodbye so Love built a bridge (ibid. stanza one) A scattering of rose […]
LikeLike