Your Favourite Words

[Dodger Thirteen]

Now, I might be thinking a bit of Donnie Darko and "cellar door" as I write this, but I have always have a fondness for certain words over others. It might be due to their definition or the way they feel on my tongue as I speak, but some words are just glorious.

I can't be the only one here, yes?

Some of my favourites are:

• redaction (because it means "to edit" and it's most common to edit with a red pen)
  
• shrimptoast (because it's just damned funny)
  
• cordial (again, because it's fun to say)
  

[dementedappletree]

I love the word "inconceivable" personally. Both because it has 13 letters and because it's used in the Princess Bride several time. Also, it's just a really cool word.

[Olive]

I've got a few. For instance,

• Doorknob. I don't know why, I just... like it.
  
• Celestial. Beautiful word, and I have a fascination with the night sky.
  
• Glauben. German word meaning "to believe." I don't know why, but I love saying it, and all of its conjugations.
  

[onlyaworkingtitle]

-"Uncopywriteable," because it's the only 15-letter word with no repeated letters, and that's kind of nifty.
-"Huzzah," because I say it all the time and once got extra points in D&D for speaking "in character," which confused me until I remembered that it's generally considered antiquated.
-"Doubleplus," for obvious reasons.

[Epif]

"-'Uncopywriteable,' because it's the only 15-letter word with no repeated letters"

-"Four," because it has the same number of letters as it means.
-"Celestial" for the same reasons above (and it rolls off the tongue nicely)
-"Bananaananassaft" - I'm pretty sure that this is a made up German word, but it's supposed to mean "banana pineapple juice."
-"Pineapple," because in every other language, it's called "Ananas."

[cyanea]

"Crux".
It just sounds so cool.

"Exigencies"
Because I used it in a sentence once without thinking about it and made all of my non-English major, non-literary friends stare at me.

[Olive]

Jun 1, 2011 11:14:42 GMT -5 Epif said:

"-'Uncopywriteable,' because it's the only 15-letter word with no repeated letters"

-"Four," because it has the same number of letters as it means.
-"Celestial" for the same reasons above (and it rolls off the tongue nicely)
-"Bananaananassaft" - I'm pretty sure that this is a made up German word, but it's supposed to mean "banana pineapple juice."
-"Pineapple," because in every other language, it's called "Ananas."

I... think that's just about correct. Germans are really bloody good at just smashing words together, and all of the components are (almost) correct (Banane, not Banana).

Yaaaaaaaaay German language.

[Epif]

Yeah, English likes to just make new words for things ("glove" and "quark" for example). And I completely forgot about the E at the end 'cause I haven't taken/spoken German in a long time @~@.

Yaaaaaaaay~

Oh, and words that have an X in them ("Crux" above and "Lax") are awesome, too.

[Eternal Lobster]

There are a bunch but I can never remember them until they are mentioned. Right now I can just think of "redundant" and "melody."

[embonpoint]

Undulating.
Porcelain.
Ocean.
Glisten/glitter.
Babble.

[Marina]

The word "odd", instead of saying weird or strange, I always say "odd."

[tastyink]

Obscene.
Intense
Opulence
Biblical

Just a few of my favorites.

[Silva]

-Appalling
-Effervescent
-Incandescent
-Stardust (don't ask why)
-Pretentious

[Dobby]

I love the words:

• flibbertigibbet
  
• absurd
  
• turquoise
  
• nitwit
  
• exacerbate
  

[Silva]

Also, I like the words

-Catalyst
-List (okay, kidding)
-Froth

I will think of even more later.