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/

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[let-fate-decide.livejournal.com]

Precipice. Although the way it's actually pronounced sounds totally wrong wrong wrong in my head. Bah.

[ohfreckle.livejournal.com]

Flabbergasted. My English teacher used that a lot, and it still makes me giggle like mad.

[omglawdork.livejournal.com]

Mine's not actually English, but rather Spanish - I love the word for cod. Bacalao. Bacalaaaaooooooooo. Just say it - bah-cah-lahohhhhhhhhhh. So fun.

[cinderlily.livejournal.com]

I have a weird thing with words for light.

Brilliant, luminescence, incandescent, illuminate.

They all bring to mind this warm glow and make me happy. Irrationally, sometimes I will think about the words when I am in a bad mood. Brilliant works the best, though incandescent is a very very close second.

[equusentric.livejournal.com]

I've always liked "quiescent" and "mellifluous."

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Astronaut. Ever since I took Latin and learned it meant "star sailor."

But fuck is by far the most fun word to say!

[caersmane.livejournal.com]

Well, I have two. Fuck is probably the one I use the most. Really, I love the versatility of it, and it feels so satisfying to say it. The other is entropy. Also great fun to say, and the thought of entropy fascinates me.

[girly-curl-3.livejournal.com]

Plethora. Uffish. Melvin.

[pennyplainknits.livejournal.com]

Lithe. I love the shape of it when I say it, the long i before the soft th, and I love what it means, strong and sinuous and graceful.

I also love pamplemousse (french for grapefruit). Its just a cool word.

[geeklite.livejournal.com]

crepuscular.

Not that I frequently get a chance to say it. I should work it into sentences more often.

[kashmir1.livejournal.com]

I don't have one word - it's two, used in conjunction with one another that just - disheveled coiffe - fill me with glee. (And this is literally Joe Flanigan's fault although I didn't know it until I got into SGA last year.)

I'm also a big fan of fruition and verisimilitude.

[clear-as-blood.livejournal.com]

Ubiquitous.

I also enjoy lackadaisical, hoi polloi (which amuses me for some reason) and archaeopteryx (my favorite extinct animal).

[nadezhda13.livejournal.com]

Duodenum is mine. Hard to work into a sentence, generally.

[aurora]

I'm pretty fond of 'dichotomy'. And 'mnemonic'.

[sloganeer.livejournal.com]

I can't pick just one (don't make me pick just one!), but I love the family of British slang words, particularly the insults. Barmy trollopes and such.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

I have an unnatural affection for the word 'smite', in all its conjugations. It makes me cackle, for no real reason. Hard to work into your average conversation, perhaps, but now and again it pops up in my dad's crosswords and he'll save them to show me. Yes, I come from a long line of dorks. *g*

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

I've always been partial to jubilation.

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

I have a couple favorites: abscond, toddle, gleek, and malfeasant. Gleek is my current number one. Just. Gleek! You can squeak it, you can speak it, you can put it in your pocket!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't know that.

*loves*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

I love smite, but I prefer 'smut' for past tense. ;)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

It's the combinations and the context that count, though!

I do love words for concepts that everyone understands but no one has words for, if that makes any sense. The meaning of Liff is a book that Douglas Adams co-wrote which uses the names of obscure English towns to cover concepts such as that moment where you see someone at the other end of a corridor that you know, and you realise you'll have to either pretend you haven't seen them or do elaborate pirate impressions until you're close enough for a greeting.

*grins*

I love heek, though, which is the phonetic interpretation of a word that means 'tastes like the smell of'. It's awesome.

[on-the-ground.livejournal.com]

so something great about spanish is that it has more words to express love. i'd say is richer and i like them all.

[mischief5.livejournal.com]

Australopithecus. This was the first genus of hominid that stood up to look over the tall grasses, just to see what was out there. Australopithecus. We've always been explorers at heart, haven't we?

[wordwitch.livejournal.com]

Sublimate, in its meaning of "to transform from ice to vapor without going through a liquid stage." I just - it's always been my favorite.

[mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com]

Transcendent. I love the meanings, I love the etymology, I love the way it feels to say it.