Do you have a favourite word

• UMBRELLA is my favorite words. It is a strong word besides loving its sound.

• Exquisite is my favorite word….

• It’s difficult to choose only one word, for I like many words. Two words I like the most are: satisfied & complacent, cuz my name “Radia” in my language, Arabic, means that. I like the sound of satisfied and the meaning of complacent as it means so satisfied. I also like the word courageous. Radia, Libya.

• I like the word “sunshine” the most. Its warmth, glittering and spirituous. It shows a good start, hope and yet…lucky! I wanna be “sunshine in the rain”

• MY favorite word is wherever, because it sounds good…
  Fabiola

• My favorite is SOURCE… =]
  It just sounds very nice and the meaning is great!

• My favourite word is APPRECIATE…

• My favorite word is zucchini ^^ It sounds great !!!!

• One of my favourite word is enthusiastic (sorry, I know I’m not being very original), it took me ages to be able to pronounce it correctly! I also like outrageous and forerunner.

• My favorite word is resplendent. It sounds as grand as the sun

• my favorite words are serenity mmm..and serendipity…oh and sentinel…
  I love the way they sssound 🙂

• ‘Indigo” is great – it manages to sound both cozy and dangerous.

• One of my favourite English words is EXTRAORDINARY! Firstly because of the pronounciation, especially when being uttered by my Brittish friends, secondly due to its meaning which is so “out of the way”! =)
  I also love the words HILLARIOUS, FABULOUS and BRILLIANT! Same too reasons!

• Well, my favourite English word would be “bee”. I don’t know, it just sounds so cute and you instantly can imagine the sound of bees. And you might forget that they can sting, too. So yeah, that’s my favourite word.

• I love the word ‘procrastination’ because it doesn’t exist in my mother tongue (German), because it sounds sophisticated and because I can use it to tell people in a nice way that they should get their work done 😉

• My favorite English word is “perhaps” I like to pronounce it and the sound when someone else pronounce it.

• My favourite English word is “LOVE”…….. 🙂

• My favorite word is “Serendipity” The first time I heard about this word was in a movie….I like it for its meaning and because in my mother tongue, Spanish, there is not a word that means the same.

• “payday”.. no seriously.. well half-seriously “acquiese” or “lascivious” 😉

• that should be “acquiesce”.. can’t spell so why do I teach English??

• My favorite English word is “twilight” because it asociates with two lovely things bird twitting and day light )

• I definitely love the sound of “scissors”: you can feel how paper is cut when you pronounce it. And also “Malmsey”, which reminds me of my English History lessons at university…. the Tudors always drank that wine in my teacher’s opinion. Some years later I travelled to Sicily and tasted the local variety of it… Wonderful! Finally, 2 more words: “pristine” and “gorgeous”.

• hey guys what do you think of..

  UBIQUITOUS?

  i think it’s cool.

• My favourite is LOVELY…. it has a very nice pronuciation with my Slovak accent.

• My favourite English word is “compassion” firstly because of the meaning and also because it includes the word “passion” which is another word I love- thus I get 2 for the price of 1…it’s great-I don’t have to choose between the 2 words!

• Kerfuffle

• My favorite word is OBLIVION. It sound magical and it evokes the sea and the mountains.

• i love to use PLEASURE in my sentences 🙂

• My favourite English word is an expression actually:” two thumbs up”;
  I like this expression because when you say it you use your fingers and body as well and usually when someone speaks he uses his whole body to communicate.
  Morevoer this expression can initiate others like: three thumbs up or ten thumbs up or two hands up etc…….that’s why I do like these words together!

• “Ombudsman” is Swedish, “zucchini” is Italian – English is such a fabulous language – constantly adorning itself with jewels from multicultural crowns. By the way, “slut” comes from “slattern” which means a sloppy housekeeper, NOTHING to do with loose morals! My favourite word is “voluptuous”, especially as pronounced by an old Finnish friend of mine who used to say “volumptuous” !!!

• My favorite words are all the performative verbs (promise, forbid, invite, swear, declare etc) not because of their sound but rather because of their power to convey the kind of speech act being performed.
  Claudio Silva

• My favorite word in English is ‘knowledge’, because I think sounds good! HAHAHA’

• My favorite English word is definitely “procrastination”. It just sounds good and it’s a very useful word. We also have an equivalent in Spanish (procrastinar), though we don’t use it as often.

• “tangerine ” because it sounds as it tastes:sour and sweet

• My favourite English word is “candy” because is sweet

• I hated MENAGERIE as a child. It made me itch. I see someone wrote RENDEZVOUS. This reminds me of George W, who apparently said that the French were no good in business because they didn’t have a word for ENTREPRENEUR. Well, well!!

• I really like the word WINNINGEST which I gather is used by sports announcers in the States. In the U.K. we never use that word but it is such a funny (and useful) word!

  Also on the Simpsons they used that word EMBIGGENS, as in “A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man”.

  It’s amazing how these words start off tongue in cheek but end up being used day to day.

• I think I went thru about a 1/4 of the comments before someone said a “true” English word … one that has Anglo-Germanic roots rather than a Latinate or Greek-rooted word. That’s kind of sad.

  The one that I like the best … bedoven … means to be drenched or drowned (ppl from archaic bedive). For byspel: After walking thru the jungle, he was bedoven with sweat.

• My favorite English word is “TOUCH”. It sounds great!!!

• my best word is WEIRD. I love the pronunciation

• i like to us the word ‘SIBLINGS because it sounds very good when we use it instead saying brothers and sisters

• My favourite word is awkward. Maybe because of its structure.I really love to use it everyday ! 😀 :))))

• My favourite word is “super”. It is easily recognized and frequently used by almost everybody!

• My favourite word is ‘forlorn’, which I heard first in John Keat’s Ode to a Nightingale. I just love how it sounds, because it’s true, “the very word is like a bell”.
  I also like other English words such as ‘solace’ (the very sound of the word transmits softness and calm), ‘dearest’ (it sounds very tender and endearing), ‘sojourn’ (I find it graceful)…

• my favorite word in English is : AWESOME . and i use it a lot

A lovely friend and colleague of mine recently wrote a post about her top 5 favourite words.  I couldn’t help but geek out when I read her article.

You see, as a bibliophile and word nerd, it’s simply not possible for me to love books and ignore the prose within them (yes, yes, I can all hear you saying ‘duh’, but bear with me, I do have a point to make).

Sure, we all read for the characters and the story and the adventures that liberate us from reality for the duration of the book, but what would those stories be if they had no words to form them?

And what would conversations be if we didn’t have them?

Words are beauty and cruelty. They can be used to mock, or be used to seduce. They can cajole, lure and manipulate, and they can move you to tears, evoke a sense of wonder and most importantly, breathe life into your imagination.

In the spirit of all things wordy, I thought I’d share 5 of my favourite words. In no particular order, they are as follows:

 Gossamer
— a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.

Because the word brings to mind fairies flitting about in gauzy little outfits and dragonfly wings.

Miasma
— a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere.

This can also refer to «noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere,” but I much prefer the above-mentioned definition.

Petrichor
— a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.

I’ve always associated this with romance and new beginnings, and because every time I see this word, I can immediately conjure the actual scent of the rain, following its downpour.

Mellifluous
— sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding:

The definition is exactly what it feels like when you say the word out loud, don’t you think?

Melancholy
— a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.

I’m a sucker for sad and beautiful words and things, and melancholy pretty much embodies this in every way. I’m all about the angst, yes.

We asked you to tell us what your favourite word is; this is how you responded:

Leighanne

Wendy

Scintillating – because it conjures up all things bling, bright and beautiful – just in time for Christmas!

Michelle

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Yeah, I know, playing favorites is hard… My friend Crystal and I put a nice little fun word post together, so head over to Persiflage to join the party. Leave your favorite English words in the comments or link to a post of your own!

Even if you cannot think of one straight away, you might find a new favorite English word in the comments. I certainly had to check out a few! Looking outside I wouldn’t be surprised, if a house dropped on someone with red shoes. This really is a day for reading.

(Did you know that extreme couching is a thing? See, dear writer, you are not procrastinating.)

Thanks for having me Crystal. It was great fun!

cornucopia

noun [S]   formal – /ˌkɔːr.nəˈkoʊ.pi.ə/

A large amount or supply of something.

What puts the “ape” in apricot?

I am not sure. What I do know is that you really don’t want to miss out on those fun words! So clickety click!

Righto, I’ll split. Enjoy your Sunday.

More fun with words:

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German Word of the Day – Fischeinwickelpapier

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