Favourite Words

[BigWords]

I was also going to add in widdershins, but it's one of those words which you have to say a few times - widdershinswiddershinswiddershinswiddershins... it's got an internal rhythm to it that gets compulsive. Then people passing by look at me funny when I'm doing the chant. So... Yeah.

[ethan]

lollygag - to waste time in a pleasant idle way

[Kylie]

Thought of a couple more:

 

Episcopalian

Archipelago (once I learned how to pronounce it I loved it)

[poppy]

Just to add, I love the word Poppy!

 

It is a word that is pleasing to say, read and hear. It can be said in a comical manner, but has the additional gravity of being a word that leads onward to drug wars, ganglords and addictions, also to the deeper reference to European wars.

 

 

lol Chrissy, glad you like my name I also love poppet.

 

Cherish is a lovely word, makes me smile.

[Echo]

Ooohh...I lovethe word ethereal. People used to use it to describe me, back when I was skinny.

[Kylie]

I love that word too, Echo. There was a horse in the Melbourne Cup named Ethereal several years ago, and because I love the word so much I put some money on it and chanced getting it in a couple of different sweeps. It won...the only time my horse has ever come in first.

[Janet]

It's acceptable to use 'myriad of'.

 

Usage Note: Throughout most of its history in English myriad was used as a noun, as in a myriad of men. In the 19th century it began to be used in poetry as an adjective, as in myriad men. Both usages in English are acceptable, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Myriad myriads of lives." This poetic, adjectival use became so well entrenched generally that many people came to consider it as the only correct use. In fact, both uses in English are parallel with those of the original ancient Greek. The Greek word mūrias, from which myriad derives, could be used as either a noun or an adjective, but the noun mūrias was used in general prose and in mathematics while the adjective mūrias was used only in poetry.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/myriad+

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad

 

Edited February 8, 2010 by Janet

[Kylie]

Oh, thanks Janet! I will now feel better reading 'myriad of'.

[Kylie]

Talkies, when referring to the era when movies started having sound. The word is just adorable and I smile whenever I hear it.

[Book Fiend]

Ooh I have lots of favourite words! The only ones I can remember at the minute are:

 

Nonchalant It just sounds so, well, nonchalant!

Superflous

Totalitarian

Squidgy It's just makes me smile!

 

I'll be back with more when I can think of some!

[Stephanie2008]

Superfluous is one of mine too Chaos is another because I love the way you spell it. Tangent is another.

[Kylie]

Nonchalant It just sounds so, well, nonchalant!

Superflous

 

I agree with these two!

[Jay Landsman]

I've always loved Superfluous, because it's a word that I take a strange enjoyment out of saying.

Verisimilitude is another cracker!

[Nollaig]

I just remembered another favourite: asphalt! Don't ask me why.

 

It makes me think of lying on the ground on a summer evening to feel the heat it's absorbed through the day.

[chesilbeach]

Thanks for bumping the thread, Noll, as it's reminded me of another ....

 

You can't beat Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[AbielleRose]

Vuvuzela What? It's fun to say!

[Nici]

Fumergating (when I'm *really* p*^^%d off)

 

Toptastic

 

"Whatever"

[Coffin Nail]

Fave word: Yes.

[Nienna]

I've always really liked the word sentinel for some reason. It sounds really strong and protective or something. :

[Stephanie2008]

For some reason, I love the word sinister. I like the way it sounds

[chrysalis_stage]

There many words I adore but two that come to mind right this minute are Eclectic and Esoteric

 

Reading Nienna's has reminded me of another word I like - Sentient as well as Sublime

Edited June 16, 2010 by chrysalis_stage

[Rawr]

I will think of three in ten seconds xD

 

Perpendicular

Lozenge

Wisteria

[Kidsmum]

Can i have a French one ?

 

I always liked Trottoir when i was learning French at school.

[Hayley]

(I wasn't entirely sure where this should go so sorry if I put it in the wrong place!)

 

I had a language lecturer who told us her favourite word was 'serendipity' because it was nice to say. I still haven't worked out what my favourite word is though!

 

Do any of you have a favourite word?

[chesilbeach]

I have a few! This Favourite words thread has mine and some others for you to mull over, Hayley