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8th September 2007, 09:26 AM
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| Lady of Autumn  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lincolnshire
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| Favourite word? After seeing this on the BBC website, it got me thinking about what my favourite word is. BBC NEWS | Education | Word search for global schooling I guess it changes from day to day, but I've always been fond of the word flabbergasted.  I just like the way it sounds.Anyone else got a favourite word? |
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8th September 2007, 04:17 PM
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| I'm a cockney flower...  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: United Kingdom
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| Re: Favourite word? Oh, no, no, the word is fine! It's just the actual thing that is evil incarnate! But tummy...ack, I can hardly bring myself to type it, because it means hearing it in my head! Nasty sounding word... |
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8th September 2007, 07:41 PM
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| Super Moderator  Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: California
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| Re: Favourite word? Amygdala. It's a part of the brain that is key in processing the memory of emotional reactions...and it's just darned fun to say.  Met that word in a psychophysiology class I took a few years ago.Come to think of it, "psychophysiology" is kind of fun to say, as well. |
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8th September 2007, 07:54 PM
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| Moderator  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Texas
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| Re: Favourite word? I'm not sure I have "a" particular word that is my favorite, though perhaps floccinaucinihilipification might come closest... as LMA says, it's just a fun word to say, it's a wonderful tongue-twister if you try to say it quickly, and the meaning makes the whole thing so ironic.... Others would be "numinous", "sublime", "eldritch", "fey"... ach, there are too many to put down....  |
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8th September 2007, 09:00 PM
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| Outta sight  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: East Sussex
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| Re: Favourite word? Chocolate - it has to be chocolate! I mean - even saying it you have to have your mouth in the shape it would be if you were just about to pop a chocolate caramel into it. Hm - 'scuse me for a few moments! |
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8th September 2007, 09:28 PM
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| Protego quod ministro  Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Hampshire
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8th September 2007, 09:42 PM
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| Per aspera ad astra.  Join Date: May 2007 Location: Tyne and Wear
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| Re: Favourite word? Always liked periphery (the place I tend to inhabit ). I also quite like precipice, temperance, phantasm and cantankerous.And, though I've never been all that taken by it myself, I'm surprised no one's mentioned serendipity yet. |
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8th September 2007, 11:04 PM
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| Arf!  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: United Kingdom
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| Re: Favourite word? I once knew a guy that kept saying "antidisestablishmentarianism". So that's sorta stuck in my head now. Whether I want it or not. I hate the word "fish", that sounds icky. As does the words "oil slick". |
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