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Thread: What is your favourite word?
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2007-08-03, 02:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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What is your favourite word?
What is your favourite word?
Mine is Squaloid, an adjective which describes something as being like or pertaining to a shark or sharksLast edited by Jimp; 2007-08-03 at 02:11 PM.
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2007-08-03, 02:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
I think my favourite word is to defenestrate - the act of throwing something or someone out of a window.
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2007-08-03, 02:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
Can we disallow defenestrate now please? Everyone loves that word, and it wouldn't be fair to all the others. Like:
squamous (scaly, with connotations of also being slick and slimy)
sonorous
malignant
polyphony
byzantine
sinople (means red and also green)
Gdansk
fudge
glom
and
harbl (it's my favourite by a mile. Harbl makes me happy )
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2007-08-03, 02:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedalian, the only word that can properly describe my greatness.
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2007-08-03, 02:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-08-03, 02:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
whack
It's the god of words, liek ttly roxxzors! Really, there's a comfortable feel in my mouth when I say it, much like schmack.
Also, I agree, let's disallow defenestrate, it's cliché by now.
The longest word in English, 'cause I know someone will do it.Spoiler
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EDIT: Note that I editted my favourite word, because I found it was indeed not my favourite word.Last edited by ufo; 2007-08-03 at 02:56 PM.
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2007-08-03, 02:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
Tuft. Nuff said.
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2007-08-03, 02:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
Yambag is by far my favorite word
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2007-08-03, 02:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-08-03, 03:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
There's another word I really like, but I've forgotten what it was It's an unnecessarily long word for 'unnecessarily long word'.
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2007-08-03, 03:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
The first thing that comes to mind:
Carrion
I know, a weird choice, but I just like how it sounds.
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2007-08-03, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-08-03, 03:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
I like the word chillax. I know it's not a word just yet (as in not in the dictionary), but i'll be suprised if it's not one within the next 20 years.
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2007-08-03, 03:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
i like the word "Cannister" not sure why though hehe
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2007-08-03, 03:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
Antidisestablismentarianism, of course.
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2007-08-03, 03:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
Can we have proper nouns as words? Coz then I'd probably have Ranis.
Handed right you could spam peoples threads up goooood with that.
"Ranis! Ranis! Ranis! Ranis! Ranis! Ranis! Ranis!" etc, etc.
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2007-08-03, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
Superfluous.
Use superfluous superfluously and those around you will un-superfluously question your superfluous display of vocabulary.Last edited by Semidi; 2007-08-03 at 03:45 PM. Reason: Thought I could word it better. I was right.
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2007-08-03, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-08-03, 03:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
If we're ruling out defenestrate, then I'll toss out GALLIMAUFRY.
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2007-08-03, 04:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
Words I like...
Disestablishmentarianism.
Simply because it sounds cool.
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2007-08-03, 04:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
Thirded. Especially in combination with other words. The thread about Vader versus Voldemort had me lauging out loud about the idea of 'Force-yoinking' objects.
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2007-08-03, 04:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
My favorite word is phenomenon. It's all Jim Henson's fault.
Although superfluous is also a great word. So are disingenuous, paraphrenalia, and praxis. My sister-in-law believes that the most odious word is moist, and I think that she might be right.
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2007-08-03, 04:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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My favorite word is actually a German word. It is, if I remember aright:
Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswe rkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft.
In English, it translates to "association for subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services."Last edited by Mephibosheth; 2007-08-03 at 04:11 PM.
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2007-08-03, 04:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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"I'm just going on motive and opportunity here and the fact that if the earth got swallowed by a black hole, I'd look suspiciously in your direction first."
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Re: What is your favourite word?
My fave word? I'd have to say...morbid obesity. heh. Why is morbid even in there? morbid obesity...
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2007-08-03, 04:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hmm. I'm quite partial to "serendipitous".
And I suppose brobdingnagian should be on the list of great words as well...
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2007-08-03, 04:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is your favourite word?
Today, my favorite word is frabjous. Not only is it wonderfully silly, it is fun to say, and I like the way it looks when I type it. Frabjous.
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