lithe MollyGoLightly Jesus, I love this word. Reminds me of a conversation I had recently about words that look the way they sound. Once, quite a while back,when someone applied this word to me, I was on top of the damn world for a week. see: shallow. 000520 ... Brad You're right molly, it is definitely one of those words. I was thinking that before i ever read your post. For the record, the aforementioned conversation was with me :) 000521 ... ...ooo... i agree and can only say i thought about it long ago whenever it was i first heard it and i've been told i transmit peace and i like to think that so does that word 020206 ... vituperus unrelated to blithe 040502 ... Monkey_Man I had to look it up. "Marked by effortless grace" Looks about right. 050423 what's it to you? who go blather from