Our Favorite Words - Lists

kdnxdr · Jan 10, 2012

This thread might not fly but I thought to give it a try....(oops!)

I thought it might be fun for anyone who would like to do so, post a list of some of your favorite words.

So, here's mine (I'm still a bit groggy from having the flu, though):

intricate

intersect

hesitant

crescendo

breath

(lots more but, I'm keeping it short)

Flowerfairy · Jan 10, 2012

I also love crescendo. Here are some of mine:

mint

alluring

flutter

symphony

lady (just love it!)

HarryHoskins · Jan 10, 2012

Perambulation & Peregrination

Darkarma · Jan 10, 2012

Petulant
interspersed
triumphant
unintelligible
enduring
shiny

hoursforyears · Jan 10, 2012

If it's ok, I'll lose my AW virginity to this thread. My favourite words are not ones I used often or even at all. I like the way they sound. I have an exhaustive list, so these are but a few favourites to hear (said & in head):

vainglory
mondegreen
behove
verdigris
triptych
schism
tautological/tautology
schematic
cadaver
prism
circumvent
blent (I would swear it was a Virginia Woolf where I first read this word, but that's probably untrue. She just used it in a way so that I was hearing it my head for days...blent, blent, blent. Now I have some serious semantic satiation but I still think it's lovely).

In the spirit of the new year, my favourite poetic & painful soundbites of 2011:

opposition coalition
stability facility
pakistani army
fiscal stimulus

Xelebes · Jan 10, 2012

Words I like because I am a math/economics geek:

zenzizenzizenzic
radix

Words I like because I am a German geek:

lave
jökulhlaup

ajc · Jan 10, 2012

Oh my! I have a thousand!

symphony/symphonic
cataclysm
exhilaration
mastication
sensation
slow
wonky
beautiful
salsa
sanctuary
exsanguination
kiss
ovulate
swindle..... I COULD GO ON AND ON

kdnxdr · Jan 13, 2012

Xelebes said:
trâine (From French: adj. trolling, or by the fact that is from French, trolling in good taste.)

I wonder if trolley came from "trolling"?

Xelebes · Jan 13, 2012

kdnxdr said:
I wonder if trolley came from "trolling"?

Not from "trolling" as in to leave comments to goad responses, but to roll along, yes.

Blarg · Jan 13, 2012

spelunk
galoot
rapacious
inimical
hasenfeffer
cylindrical
teleological
felch
hoosegow
indubitably
humuhumu nuku nuku apu apu (I think it's all one word)

I also have a few favorite names:

Laura
Lisa
Teresa
Ralph

Note: I don't actually like the name Ralph for its beauty, but because to me it sounds so hilariously harsh it seems only natural to make a face while saying it. And the sound seems to go quite well with its slang use as the verb form of "barf."

The women's names, I think, all have a gorgeous, almost liquid sound, very feminine.

ajc · Jan 13, 2012

So many good words. For men's names I like anything that can be shortened to one syllable...don't ask...Nick, Joe, Jake, Josh, Ben...

For women I like anything soft...Michelle, Mary, Aubrey, Ellen....

Serendipty is also a cool word.

Ambrosia · Jan 13, 2012

Blarg said:
spelunk
galoot
rapacious
inimical
hasenfeffer
cylindrical
teleological
felch
hoosegow
indubitably
humuhumu nuku nuku apu apu (I think it's all one word)

I also have a few favorite names:

Laura
Lisa
Teresa
Ralph

Note: I don't actually like the name Ralph for its beauty, but because to me it sounds so hilariously harsh it seems only natural to make a face while saying it. And the sound seems to go quite well with its slang use as the verb form of "barf."

The women's names, I think, all have a gorgeous, almost liquid sound, very feminine.

(bolding mine)

I can think of a couple of women's names that would more match "Ralph" in your list than having a liquid, feminine sound. Like "Gertrude". And "Blanche".

But the ones you listed flow nicely.

I will have to think about a list and come back, Kid. But, like Amy, I do like "serendipity".

Xelebes · Jan 13, 2012

Names? Hm. . .

Female: Nicole, Ashley, Irene
Male: Roland, Reid, (this one is for writing only - the big loops underneath. . .) George

As for words, I don't like wonky. The noun is a better word, wonk.

kdnxdr · Jan 14, 2012

Hmm....in the states, there's a small motor on the back of a very small fishing boat called a "trolling" motor. It goes along very quietly. I think it might be reference for a certain fishing technique calling "trolling"?

Xelebes · Jan 14, 2012

Oops, to troll on an internet message board in French is provo. To roll or pull along is trâine. Can't seem to find the fishing definition but it looks like it is not chaluter, as that needs a trawl. So, eh, scrap it.

HarryHoskins · Jan 14, 2012

Blarg said:
felch

Blimey, Blarg! You sneaked that one in.

Here's a couple more of mine ...

Gooseberry -- sounds great and has great associations for me.

Silver -- simple, futuristic and the name of a girl I knew once in Prague.

Sobriquet -- Great sounding, great when written and great meaning.

Hodge-podge -- Lovely affectionate conglomeration of letters and sounds.

JohnL · Jan 15, 2012

zenzizenzizenzic is awesome

argent
fluorescent
a/c
cordillera

and likely some others I can think of right now

kdnxdr · Jan 15, 2012

"Hodge-podge -- Lovely affectionate conglomeration of letters and sounds."

I actually had the opportunity to say the word "hodge-podge" in context of a play I was in a few months ago. It was such a fun word to use and I got to deliver it as an exclamatory remark, which made it all the more fun.

How weird is that to be entertained by the simple use of a word??!! Am I a nerd?

Debbie V · Jan 16, 2012

ajc said:
So many good words. For men's names I like anything that can be shortened to one syllable...don't ask...Nick, Joe, Jake, Josh, Ben...

Serendipty is also a cool word.

I love serendipity as a concept, but I tend to go for phrases, or unrelated word groups, more than individual words: "Incidents and accidents and hints and allegations."

I do prefer men's names with J: Jake, Josh, Justice, Jeffrey. Not so much for women.

My favorite sound is the one that begins the name Gil in French. Love the vibration of it.

Our Favorite Words - Lists

kdnxdr

One of the most important people in the world

Flowerfairy

Lady Entropia

HarryHoskins

Straw-fed

Darkarma

Master-Mage

hoursforyears

Xelebes

Delerium ex Ennui

ajc

What do I know?

kdnxdr

One of the most important people in the world

Xelebes

Delerium ex Ennui

Blarg

ajc

What do I know?

Ambrosia

Grand Duchess

Xelebes

Delerium ex Ennui

kdnxdr

One of the most important people in the world

Xelebes

Delerium ex Ennui

HarryHoskins

Straw-fed

JohnL

Hmmmm...

kdnxdr

One of the most important people in the world

Debbie V

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