My own private lexicon (students, do not touch!)

[He] likes particularly the sound of English words, even when they conveyed no meaning at all. Some of them simply filled him with elation. 'Periwinkle' was such a word. He had now forgotten how he learned it or exactly what it was. He had a vague private meaning for it and it was something to do with fairyland.

- Chinua Achebe, 'Chike's School Days', Girls at War and other stories