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#514572 - Thu Feb 25 2010 04:51 PM What's your favourite word?
Tizzabelle Multiloquent Registered: Sun Jan 17 2010 Posts: 2507 Loc: Sydney NSW Australia	Copago's post about "aitch" and haitch" reminded me of words that irritate me and words that I love. My favourite word of all time is probably "autumnal". I don't know why I love it but I'm not the only person I know who loves "autumnal". I love "curmudgeon" too. I don't love curmudgeons, just the word. It makes me smile! So.. what are your favourite words? Or am I weird in having favourite words? _________________________ A platypus lays eggs and produces milk - it can make its own custard
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#514573 - Thu Feb 25 2010 05:24 PM Re: What's your favourite word?
ClaraSue Forum Champion Registered: Sun May 18 2003 Posts: 7842 Loc: Arizona USA	What a neat topic! I've always thought the word "megalomaniacal" was cool. I also like the word "benevolent". If you're weird in having favorite words, then so am I. _________________________ May the tail of the elephant never have to swat the flies from your face.
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#514574 - Thu Feb 25 2010 05:26 PM Re: What's your favourite word?
Copago Moderator Registered: Tue May 15 2001 Posts: 14384 Loc: Australia	"Adaminaby" (a town in NSW) is one of my favourite words - if I ever retire I just may consider moving there just so I can say it more often. I love words with lots of syllables and sound kind of rythmic. A word I don't like is 'slaughter'. It just sounds like it means especially when said with a hard 'g'.
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#514575 - Thu Feb 25 2010 06:04 PM Re: What's your favourite word?
Sinned2471 Forum Adept Registered: Sat Mar 05 2005 Posts: 188 Loc: Jersey City New Jersey USA	I've always liked the word "imperial" and dislike the word "goggles" _________________________ All I want is all there is and then some.
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#514576 - Fri Feb 26 2010 01:15 AM Re: What's your favourite word?
Tizzabelle Multiloquent Registered: Sun Jan 17 2010 Posts: 2507 Loc: Sydney NSW Australia	Oh Copago! Adaminaby is a great place name That reminds me of when an English family I know was driving up the NSW coast for the first time. They saw the road sign for "Bulahdelah" and having no idea how to pronounce it said "Oh that sounds posh doesn't it? Bew-la-dee-dah." So they and I have called it Bewladeedah ever since For those that don't know Bulahdelah, it's pronounced Bull-a-dee-lah. _________________________ A platypus lays eggs and produces milk - it can make its own custard
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#514577 - Sat Feb 27 2010 05:53 AM Re: What's your favourite word?
dsimpy Enthusiast Registered: Sun Jan 24 2010 Posts: 483 Loc: Belfast Ireland	I like egregious and paradigm, but that's maybe because I've only added them to my vocab in the past few years. I also like the word custard ... or maybe it's just the taste, so difficult to know. _________________________ Exegi monumentum aere perennius regalique situ pyramidum altius - and that was before breakfast!
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#514578 - Sat Feb 27 2010 07:43 AM Re: What's your favourite word?
ren33 Moderator Registered: Thu Sep 30 1999 Posts: 12593 Loc: Kowloon Tong Hong Kong	Popacatapetl. The tl at the end is so economical! I hate "misled", as I read it as "mizzled" as a child and was laughed at. Edited by ren33 (Sat Feb 27 2010 07:45 AM)
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#514579 - Sat Feb 27 2010 08:07 AM Re: What's your favourite word?
Mink Forum Adept Registered: Fri Jul 13 2007 Posts: 150 Loc: Devon UK	Horripilation and serendipity are two of my favourites
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#514580 - Sat Feb 27 2010 09:08 AM Re: What's your favourite word?
Tizzabelle Multiloquent Registered: Sun Jan 17 2010 Posts: 2507 Loc: Sydney NSW Australia	Hi Mink, serendipity is a favourite word of a good friend of mine too :-) Poor ren33. That story about "misled" is a very cute and understandable error for a child to make. I still remember a classmate in high school reading a passage aloud. He pronounced the word "sword" with the 'w'. We couldn't stop ourselves giggling. My nephew was about 3 years old and loved the Toyota commercials. He'd run around the house singing "Oh what a feeling.. Yoy-tota!" We still giggle about that one even though he's 19 now. _________________________ A platypus lays eggs and produces milk - it can make its own custard
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#514581 - Sat Feb 27 2010 12:09 PM Re: What's your favourite word?
lesley153 Mainstay Registered: Fri Sep 07 2007 Posts: 737 Loc: Bedford England UK	Quote: I read it as "mizzled" as a child Didn't everyone? I remember my family deliberately pronouncing it like that. We were easily amused. When the nearest letter-box was moved from the main road to a side turning, there was a note about why it had been re-sited. My son wanted to know why it had been rezz'itted. When I was little I saw "fund" and pronounced it fyoond. I didn't get laughed at till I was 30 and mentioned the plover. I'd never heard anyone say it, so I said it with a long o, to rhyme with clover, and my colleague laughed. Apparently it's pronounced pluvva. Who'da thought it! We got our own back - she was from the north of England. Sublime is a nice word. So are limpid and languid - even if I don't know why. _________________________ I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind. ~ Richard Greenberg
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#514582 - Sat Feb 27 2010 01:03 PM Re: What's your favourite word?
Copago Moderator Registered: Tue May 15 2001 Posts: 14384 Loc: Australia	Quote: Oh Copago! Adaminaby is a great place name That reminds me of when an English family I know was driving up the NSW coast for the first time. They saw the road sign for "Bulahdelah" and having no idea how to pronounce it said "Oh that sounds posh doesn't it? Bew-la-dee-dah." So they and I have called it Bewladeedah ever since For those that don't know Bulahdelah, it's pronounced Bull-a-dee-lah. LOL - that was the other one I had on my mind when I made my post There is also one near Dubbo called Buddabadah which is fun to say.
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#514583 - Sat Feb 27 2010 05:40 PM Re: What's your favourite word?
ren33 Moderator Registered: Thu Sep 30 1999 Posts: 12593 Loc: Kowloon Tong Hong Kong	Lindisfarne, oooh lovely! _________________________ Wandering aimlessly through FT since 1999.
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#514584 - Sat Feb 27 2010 11:49 PM Re: What's your favourite word?
Sinned2471 Forum Adept Registered: Sat Mar 05 2005 Posts: 188 Loc: Jersey City New Jersey USA	As far as town names go, I've always liked Menominee Falls and Lake Placid. _________________________ All I want is all there is and then some.
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#514585 - Mon Mar 01 2010 07:26 PM Re: What's your favourite word?
Kaye19 Participant Registered: Mon Dec 14 2009 Posts: 8 Loc: Northern Ireland UK	When one of my children was learning to read he amused us by asking what is a pig e on! (pigeon) I love the word 'tracklements' - seldom heard nowadays- it means salt, pepper etc which you put on the table.
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#514586 - Mon Mar 01 2010 08:13 PM Re: What's your favourite word?
Tizzabelle Multiloquent Registered: Sun Jan 17 2010 Posts: 2507 Loc: Sydney NSW Australia	I love "tracklements". I had to look it up and it's a made up word from the 1950s that made it into the OED. I am going to use that on Thursday. I'm having dinner at the pub with a mate who's a bit of a word nerd too. She'll love it.. once I've explained it to her ;-) Anyone watch "To The Manor Born" with Penelope Keith? I love how she wished everyone Merry Christmas on her Xmas cards.. "Yuletide felicitations". I say that every Xmas to certain friends. ;-) _________________________ A platypus lays eggs and produces milk - it can make its own custard
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#514587 - Wed Mar 03 2010 02:06 PM Re: What's your favourite word?
Tobyone Participant Registered: Wed May 31 2006 Posts: 45 Loc: Sydney NSW Australia	I love "slubberdegullion", it means a slobbering, dirty wretch. I've not (to date) had an opportunity to use it. When I was little I thought "misled" was "myzled" and that "bedraggled" was "bed-raggled".
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#514588 - Wed Mar 03 2010 05:45 PM Re: What's your favourite word?
Sinned2471 Forum Adept Registered: Sat Mar 05 2005 Posts: 188 Loc: Jersey City New Jersey USA	Quote: I love "slubberdegullion", it means a slobbering, dirty wretch. I've not (to date) had an opportunity to use it. When I was little I thought "misled" was "myzled" and that "bedraggled" was "bed-raggled". Wait until you meet an American politician. _________________________ All I want is all there is and then some.
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#514589 - Thu Mar 04 2010 12:17 AM Re: What's your favourite word?
Taesma Prolific Registered: Fri Jun 20 2003 Posts: 1179 Loc: Bay Area California USA	I've always been rather fond of "onomatopoeia" for some reason. And I intensely dislike "moist". Couldn't tell you why. I just feel... icky saying it. _________________________ "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." ~ Jerry Seinfeld
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#514590 - Tue Mar 09 2010 11:37 PM Re: What's your favourite word?
quogequox Prolific Registered: Sat Sep 15 2001 Posts: 1050 Loc: Adelaide SA Australia	I'm fond of "lackadaisical" because it appeared on three seperate report cards, which must be some kind of a record...or a conspiracy and "nevertheless" just cos I like it. _________________________ Never moon a werewolf.
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#514591 - Wed Mar 10 2010 05:20 AM Re: What's your favourite word?
triviapaul Mainstay Registered: Thu May 22 2008 Posts: 998 Loc: Delft<br>The Netherlands	In English I like those posh compound words like 'notwithstanding' and 'whereupon'. Also the slightly oldfashioned words like 'whence' and 'hitherto'. In Spanish for example 'ronronear' and 'tataratataranieta' _________________________ They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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#514592 - Wed Mar 10 2010 06:19 AM Re: What's your favourite word?
Jennings Enthusiast Registered: Tue Nov 03 2009 Posts: 416 Loc: Surrey England UK	Oojamaflip, meaning whatsit, thingy etc.
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#514593 - Wed Mar 10 2010 11:11 AM Re: What's your favourite word?
Tizzabelle Multiloquent Registered: Sun Jan 17 2010 Posts: 2507 Loc: Sydney NSW Australia	There are some ripper words in here :-) I like the idea of onomatopeeea.. onomotapoeaiesa.. onamtoppeias ... I just wish I could spell it without such distress to my brain ;-) I can't wait to use "slubberdegullion" somewhere, somehow. Triviapaul, if you like compound words try a little north of you in Finland. They see no need to keep a space when adding words together. So many words seem incredibly long, especially when travelling along a road at speed and you're trying to read a road sign. I can't complain though. It's my first language but I've lost a lot of it now. It doesn't help me when I try to read it. ;-) _________________________ A platypus lays eggs and produces milk - it can make its own custard
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#514594 - Thu Mar 11 2010 04:34 PM Re: What's your favourite word?
triviapaul Mainstay Registered: Thu May 22 2008 Posts: 998 Loc: Delft<br>The Netherlands	Ahhhh yes, Finnish, the language that gave us entokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas. Got to love agglutinative languages. Finnish has fifteen noun cases. That is superb trivia. _________________________ They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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#514595 - Fri Mar 12 2010 07:04 AM Re: What's your favourite word?
tnrees Forum Adept Registered: Wed Mar 09 2005 Posts: 154 Loc: Taunton Somerset UK	On mispronunciations - I was in a car & saw the 1st 2 letters of a street name -when I saw it all I knew it was not Onion street but it took me ages to work out it was Union street.
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#514596 - Fri Mar 12 2010 11:36 AM Re: What's your favourite word?
Tizzabelle Multiloquent Registered: Sun Jan 17 2010 Posts: 2507 Loc: Sydney NSW Australia	Hey Triviapaul, that Finnish word has something to do with aeroplane engine mechanics working on turbo motors. That much I can work out but I think it should be lentokone... I think, from my memory of Finnish. 15 noun cases? Love it. _________________________ A platypus lays eggs and produces milk - it can make its own custard
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