Sarah's Books - Used & Rare

I'm getting a chuckle out of my old thesaurus, literally - I took a look at it to find a synonym and then started reading it (I do this with most any book I pick up, really, all day long), and here's what I found:

Merry: joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial, jolly, blithesome, gleeful, hilarious.
Playful: tricksy, frisky, frolicsome, jocose, jocular, waggish, mirthful, rollicking.
Laugh: giggle, titter, snigger, snicker, chuckle, cackle, burst out, shout, roar, shake (or split) one's sides.
Liveliness: life, alacrity, vivacity, animation, joviality, jollity, levity, jocularity.

It was tricksy and frisky that got me laughing out loud. What a great language English is. Another quote on this theme from the introduction to Garrison Keillor's anthology Good Poems:

"A cunning low tongue, English, with its rich vocabulary of slander and concupiscence and sport, its fine Latin overlay and French bric-a-brac, and when someone speaks poetry in it, it stirs our little monolingual hearts." (p.xxv)