Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. Talking in your sleep, sleep-
talking. 2. What you say when you talk in your sleep. Notes:
This half-amusing Good Word is a member of a large and warm
family, despite the fact that my spell-checker is lighting up
this paragraph like a Christmas tree with red lines as I write
it. A person who engages in somniloquy is a somniloquist who
becomes somniloquent when sleeping. When somniloquists
somniloquize, they express themselves in somniloquies in the
second meaning of today's word. Although somniloquies usually
are soliloquies, be careful not to confuse the two. In Play:
Many people utter words and phrases related to the dreams they
have as they sleep. However, a somniloquy can often be even more
important than what we say when we are awake. A wife might ask a
husband in the morning, "So, who is this 'Eleanor' you mentioned
several times in your somniloquy last night?" Don't overlook the
other members of this family of words. The same wife might
comment, "I'm sleeping much better