out of curiosity

[aesc]

What is your favorite word of all time, the word that fills you with bizarre, ineffable happiness whenever you get the chance to use or say it?

Mine is 'sloth,' although my favorite not-English word is Old English neorxnawong, which is the word for Paradise (as in, the Garden of Eden). Nay-orx-na-wong! Say it!

I ask this question periodically because I love words and I love it when people talk about them and enjoy them. It makes me happy and it relaxes me.

Back tonight with fic! \o/

Comments

[grammarwoman]

Single word, no, but two phrases will make me smile every time.

Blue-footed boobies, because who doesn't love ridiculously colored birds with silly names, and Troy-bilt Chipper Vac, for no reason I can pinpoint other than the collection of sounds.

Though I do have a fondness for "facetious", both for its meaning and the odd factor that all its vowels are in alphabetical order.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Blue-footed boobies! They are also quite ridiculous birds :D