Favourite Word

Claire · Post by **Claire** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:48 pm

I thought I'd start off a new limitless topic! What's your favourite word? I like pusillanimous, opposite of magnanimous. Enigma's good too.

Post by **johnriley1uk** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:19 pm

Antidisestablishmentarianism always goes down well under the right circumstances.....

Post by **Mike** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:42 am

Indefatigable is one of my favourites (from war of the worlds - I am totally gutted that I have lost my copy of war of the worlds with the original cd broadcast by Orson Wells - mr_e, have I left it at slade lane on the shelves in the little office????).

Supercilious is another.

mr_e · Post by **mr_e** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 12:01 pm

THIS POST NOW EDITED TO INCLUDE ALL WORDS IN THE THREAD!

Verbose springs to mind.

Mike: I'll have a check for it, or ask Rob to, which might be the more polite option. Seeing as it is his room now.

Here's the list of all the contributions so far, it didn't take as long as I thought, so I don't feel that sad now:

Claire:
Pusillanimous
Enigma
Resolute
Nascent
Pulchritude
Detrimental
Schadenfreude
Extemporaneaous
Disingenuous
Nuance
Divulge
Conquistadors
Hypothetically
Incarnadine

johnriley1uk:
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Esoteric
Splendiferous

Mike:
Indefatigable
Sycophantic
Psuedo
Duck
Lament
Serendipitous
Imutable
Prevalent
Super
Great
Machinations
Spigot
Obtuse
Puce
Indicative
Vino
Oxymoron
Spurious
Myopically
Expedient

mr_e:
Verbose
Ostreperous
Puss
Sinuous
Anathema
Eclectic
Detritus
Enamoured
Chic
Palette
Cohesion
Protean

Fez:
The
And
Salivation
Dysfunction
Lobotomy
Undulating

TAOWBST:
Ambidextrous
Konnichiwa
Konbanwa

Chrissie:
Bunch
Baffled
Personification

Lizzie:
Bubble
Resplendent

Kirstypie:
Chimp
Tube
Poltroon
Aloof

Mark Scollon:
Fruition
Slap
Moist

seaflower:
Absolutely
Gorgeous
Fresh

hazel:
Dillapidated

Andy:
Indefatigability
Cuspidor
Entrepreneur
Sentinel
Ravelled
Multitudinous
Epicure
Wrath
Hellhound

ProgRob:
Plethora
Moot
Fathom
Cuckold

Fez · Post by **Fez** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:18 pm

sorry to be the language geek, but my favourite word has to be "the", because without it there would be no deffinite articles in language structure causing grammerical collapse and the death of the english language as we know it.

Likewise "and" is fundamentally important in order for two or more ideas to be joined together in any given sentence; without it there would be no rock and roll, no fish and chips, and certainly no Morecombe and Wise.

TAOWBST · Post by **TAOWBST** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:39 pm

Fez wrote:sorry to be the language geek, but my favourite word has to be "the", because without it there would be no deffinite articles in language structure causing grammerical collapse and the death of the english language as we know it.

Likewise "and" is fundamentally important in order for two or more ideas to be joined together in any given sentance; without it there would be no rock and roll, no fish and chips, and certainly no Morecombe and Wise.

The language geek that mispelled "sentence". You put "sentance".

Probably a typo but still.....it proves my point.

Fez · Post by **Fez** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:21 pm

and what point was that exactly?

TAOWBST · Post by **TAOWBST** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:23 pm

The irony of claiming to be "the language geek" and mispelling a somewhat simple word.

Fez · Post by **Fez** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:28 pm

keyboards make fools of us all

TAOWBST · Post by **TAOWBST** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:51 pm

johnriley1uk wrote:Antidisestablishmentarianism always goes down well under the right circumstances.....

As much as I hate to ruin the fun. I don't think thats even a word,john.

How about Ambidextrous? (not sure if thats the correct spelling). Good for confusing people. At least most people anyway.

Post by **johnriley1uk** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:57 pm

Actually, it is indeed a word, and a very fine word too. It refers to being against the disestablishment of some religious matter in the church. I don't have to know exactly what it means to know it exists!

There are lots of other fine words in the full version of the Oxford English Dictionary, but I didn't get it from there as I found it rather boring as a read. I got as far as aardvark and then skipped to zebra before I got bogged down by detail.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:41 am

That word is also in the iMac talking dictionary, which I find very funny as it does not prounounce words correctly, it just adds the individual letters together in the right order (at least, that is what it sounds like!)

Claire · Post by **Claire** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:19 pm

Keep it real dudes! It's all about the vocab. Word of the Week in my classroom this week is "resolute" my year 10 form's choice. Today i like the word "nascent" best.

mr_e · Post by **mr_e** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:37 pm

Nascent is such a seedy word if misused. In a recent shocking turn of events, I've also found that zymurgy is nowhere near the last word in the dictionary.

Just found a lovely one: obstreperous. Useful for school-teachers everywhere. "Stop being so obstreperous, class!".

Chrissie · Post by **Chrissie** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:48 pm

I'd just like say that the word I really like is 'bunch', I like the way it sounds when I say it, you can punch it out. My favourite letter incidently is the letter 'B', particularly when used at the beginning of words or on the syllabic beat. The plosive consonants just burst out in a bubble,

Double, Double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble. [Macbeth]