A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

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 Q

Quid

Archaic Terms
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

Colloquial British slang for a pound, used in informal speech for sums of money.

Detailed Definition
“Quid” has long served as everyday slang for the pound sterling, never appearing on banknotes yet widely understood in conversation. In poetry, it lends immediacy and naturalness to dialogue or monologue, especially when capturing working- or middle-class voices. A few quid might cover rent, drinks, or debts, making the term a flexible shorthand for real-life calculations. Because it is informal, poets can use “quid” to undercut grand rhetoric with earthy realism, to expose the financial subtext of relationships, or to show how ordinary people measure their chances in a cash-driven world.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Got a quid?” he asked, as if a single pound could buy back lost years; She stuffed a few crumpled quid into her boot and walked out into the rain; The poet, paid ten quid for his reading, joked that each line earned a penny; Quid in verse gives the jangle of pubs, wages, and ordinary voices counting every cost.
Additional Notes
Quid works primarily as a marker of register: it signals informal British speech and helps to characterise speakers as ordinary, contemporary, or working-/middle-class. Unlike “pound sterling,” it lacks ceremonial weight and is thus suited to humour, complaint, or intimate confession. In poetry it can undercut grand themes with a jolt of realism: love that costs “a few quid,” or dreams limited by rent and wages. When teaching, you can compare quid, bob, and shilling to show how slang terms for money carry social meaning, acting as shorthand for attitude and class position.
Also Known As
British pound
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