What is your favourite word?

[The Linguist]

I've asked my mates this question when I got an email forward from a friend and when I asked them they've had to think about it for a bit.
So the question of the day is:

"What is your favourite word?"

Mine is 'flesh'...It sounds sexy and studious at the same time, perfectly wretched (another personal fave!).

[random]

Lately my personal favourite's been "Quagmire". I'm not 100% why. I guess I'd partially attribute it to the Family Guy character of the same name. Also, it's a great word to use when describing social faux pas's and situations you'd rather not be in.

[Haunted]

Bone, as in a curse, such as
this is so fucking bone

[KateBush]

CLOCK. I love the way the word feels in my mouth as I say it--its such a simple word but so perfect and whole--c-lock....ooooh, fab!

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[exnihilo]

Tintinabulation. Because both onomatopoeia and Latin rock.

[turtle]

"proposterous". Because most things are.

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[stan-drews]

Bungalow, it very quickly loses all meaning if you repeat it a few times.

[Amaunet]

approprinquare- (?) its been a while since ive done latin, and i apologise if its spelt wrongly but i always loved the word

[Saint Sal]

Wank. Lovely word, so descriptive and good for so many occassions.

[strikethepose]

Dysdiadochokinesis.
i should be able to tell you what it means, but my neuroscience course was aaaaages ago
*googles dysdiadochokinesis*
ah...the inability to execute rapidly alternating movements, of course it is.

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[LeopardSkinQueen]

[s]Saint Sal wrote on 14:48, 19th Feb 2004:
Wank. Lovely word, so descriptive and good for so many occassions.




Is a great word. Most swear words are. They have such lovely, forceful feels.

Am particularly enamoured of 'bloody' and 'fuckwit' at the moment.

[Pete]

Invagination, it just sounds so rude...except it isn't

[tintin]

[s]Amaunet wrote on 14:35, 19th Feb 2004:
approprinquare- (?) its been a while since ive done latin, and i apologise if its spelt wrongly but i always loved the word


I've always been fond of asparagus, asparagus = asparagus and poenas = Carthinaginians.

[mademoiselle]

major dilemma between "fuck" (so short powerful and internationnal) and "caravagesque" (so franco-italian arty blaber and so "baroque" another of my fav's

[dan greenberg]

mysoginist (sp?) meaning aside, i just like the way the syllables fit together.

[iohannes]

Ahhhh

[jennyo]

I remember a teacher asking us to bring a list of our favourite words to class when I was about 12...everyone had things like 'the' and 'great' but for some reason I had 'Machiavellian'

favourite at the moment tho is murmur, and not just cos it's a great album

[chittabeep]

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[loretta]

enigmatic- it brightens up any dull sentence

[Mr Comedy]

dégagé, it sounds like what it means.


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