How To Spell Dandelion

Blowball and cankerwort, words born from a common tongue. English is most practical when it is rustic and colloquial. Lions tooth, priests crown, moles salad and pee-a-bed. ‘Swine snout’ snorts loud upon the page. The yarrow-yellow flowers last for hours then overnight turn to fairy bones. I recall us both sat upon the grass blowing unfettered puffs into the wind, our hair littered with stemmed parasols the pirouetting flotsam of the airborne. The French have alternate names, herbal idioms difficult to spell, but we savor together taraxacum for it is a diuretic and wets the tongue, as do the damply dunked sounds of sneeze-helicopter's and the muddy splatter of piggy snozzles. Lions teeth are its leaf, mix well with burdock for a low tea under a shady tree. Beware of false dandelions such as cats ears and coltsfoot. The Chinese, Pu Gong Ying is the real thing. After we had covered each other with dandelion kisses we made hay the old fashioned way. Feel free to spell dandelion the way you would write a long sunny day.