What's your favourite word?

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  1. Ritter

    Ritter Well-Known Member

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    I like the words gorgeous and lascivious. Don't really know why, but I find most words ending with -ous to be beautiful. :)

    Also like the word bumblebee.
     
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    'serendipity' and 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' Don't ask me why.

    That's odd, there's a space between the first 'o' and the 'cious' and I can't close it. [​IMG] Never mind - there are worse troubles at sea.
     
  3. Frank

    Frank Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I kinda like the words, "envelop" and "dollop" and "toady."
     
  4. Ritter

    Ritter Well-Known Member

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    The word "envelop" makes me nervous lol and "dollop" looks like a face; ear, eye, nose, eye and ear. :eekeyes: and "toady", I automatically read as "today". :laughing:
     
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    hyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianist (I can't edit out the space at the end)

    A person who likes to use big words. Learned it in 7th grade english.

    Not sure if its my favorite, but I do like words that end in a 't' sound.
     
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    Free!!
     
  7. Ritter

    Ritter Well-Known Member

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    Bi*ch pls, I did not ask you to show off with what long and pointless words you know and can copy-paste. I asked you for your favourite word. :D
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    " Countenance " which few people know the meaning of.
    It was regularly employed by Edgar Allen Poe.
     
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    I like the word 'lobster'. If you say it like 30 times in a row, it sounds weirder and weirder
     
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    "Hideous"

    "Decerebrate" as an adjective. A decerebrate opinion.

    "Exculpatory"

    "Intrinsic"

    "Visceral"

    "Craft" as in "craft breweries" :beer: :wink:
     
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    RPA1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The first word that came to my mind is the word 'yes'.....
     
  13. Frank

    Frank Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Damn...I shoulda got that one.

    Great pick, RPA.



    My least favorite word, by the way, is "believe."
     
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    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    ..........DATA...........
     
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    Ah that explains it then - there must be a word length limitation on the forum.
     
  16. Ritter

    Ritter Well-Known Member

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    SJW be like "Triggered! That's discrimination against Finnish-speakers!...Finnophobia!"
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    [​IMG] I forgot my most favourite word of 'em all . . . prolixity. :wall: Isn't our language just beautiful??
     
  18. perdidochas

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    I like onomatapoiea, and the classic example taught in junior English of the word: tintinnabulation
     
  19. Ripley

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    I can't say my favorite word because I am sure it's blocked. I only say it's my favorite word because I use it so often.
     
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    Interlocutor.
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What, you mean the one universally used when someone hits their thumb with a hammer. Yep, it's blocked!
     
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    Salacious, iconoclastic, scandalous, and the full version of f'er used in a joking way.
     
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    Frank Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The "F" word, in its many forms, is ubiquitous (which itself is a favorite word).

    There are times I wonder how anyone does without it.

    I use it as almost every part of speech...and even the Pope probably uses it when he stubs his toe!
     
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    Yes! Way too many times a day, I use this word.
     
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    Well, I think there are two acceptable alternatives when you hit your thumb with a hammer. My wife tends to use the f version. I use the s version.
     

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