Are yours included?
Merriam-Webster took votes on people's favorite words. The list includes 10 words:
1. defenstrationFlibbertigibbet is good.
2. serendipity
3. onomatopoeia
4. discombobulate
5. plethora
6. callipygian
7. juxtapose
8. persnickety
9. kerfuffle
10. flibbertigibbet
While I'm partial to hundreds of words in English, I do have one clear favorite in Spanish: libelula. Doesn't that sound nice?
What are your favorites? (I'm expecting Paul Wiggins to have something creative.)
posted by Nicole @ 7:19 PM
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9 Comments:
I've gotta say, I've always liked "defenstrate" and "plethora" (though that always makes me think of "The Three Amigos").
My favorite words are the ones that best express a given thought at a given moment. -- Peter Fisk
I usually like silly-sounding words, which is one fun reason to listen hip-hop: badunkadunk, for example.
Mosey, as in "When you take up ypur country posting learn to do the Main Street mosey."
I thought of another today: lackadaisical. You feel lazy just reaching the end of the word.
And it has an interesting origin. It's from lackaday (a shortening of alack the day), an archaic term used to express regret or deprecation.
(And speaking of deprecation, I never see this word without self- tacked on the front. Just look. Why is that?)
Amortization anyone? Primarily because I have a dickens of a time pronouncing it.
I have no problems with "amortization." It's "amortize" that catches me up.
Buffalo feels the best when spoken. However I am fond of juxtapose.
-- Mark M. Hancock
markhancock.blogspot.com
Monoglossophobia - the obsessive fear of using the same word twice in one sentence.
(used by either Harold Evans or Bremer, can't recall)
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