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A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

Home › Glossary › Letter N

Noo

Dialect
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A Scots dialect word meaning "now," referring to the immediate present moment; used to ground a statement in contemporary time, often in regional literature.

Detailed Definition
"Noo" is the unremarkable but essential Scots present tense marker, its simple phonological difference from "now" marking the speaker firmly within the dialect. In poetry it contributes to the vernacular texture of a line and can carry urgency, intimacy, or the meditative present of lyric address. Burns and later poets use "noo" naturally within the flow of Scots speech, and it is one of those small dialect words that, accumulated with others, create the authentic sound world of Scottish verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
"Noo" means now; Burns uses "noo" throughout; A poet might write: "Look noo — the light willna bide — / a moment more and it has died." captures the urgency of the present; "Noo is the time tae speak yer mind — / regret is all ye'll leave behind." offers a carpe diem warning; "She understood too late, noo gone — / what love had asked her tae live on." uses the word to mark a turning point; "The burn runs clear and cool right noo — / tomorrow it might not ring true." grounds impermanence in natural imagery; "Noo, in the hush between the notes, / the whole of music gently floats." uses "noo" to identify the most musical moment
Additional Notes
Noo is one of the most familiar and immediately recognisable Scots dialect forms, carrying in its doubled vowel a quality of immediate, pressing presence that "now" somehow lacks. It appears constantly in spoken Scots, in song, and in vernacular verse, and its frequency signals a poetry of the present moment rather than historical distance. In performance, "noo" lands more emphatically than "now" — it is a word that demands attention and action. For students, tracking the tense and temporal markers in a Scots poem — "noo," "syne" (then/since), "yince" (once) — reveals the poem's relationship to time and whether it is oriented toward the present, the past, or the future.
Also Known As
Now Nowadays
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