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Favorite Words

ValkyrieRaven88

ValkyrieRaven88

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I didn't know where this would best belong, so I put it here to be safe. This is where we get to list our favorite words! Yay!
You can list if you just like the way they sound or use them a lot or like the meaning behind them or whatever. Only thing is, they have to be in English, although it can be one of those borrowed words (like tortilla; something in our dictionary).
Mine are:
Choir
Crestfallen
Evanescent
Iridescent
Moonlight
Mysterious
Nevermore
Nightengale
Phantasmagoric
Romanesque
Starlit
Stereotypical
 
I've always liked the sound of Sri Lanka - especially the 'r' following the 's'. And I love the way SWAMSKI sounds. Er, sorry it's not in a dictionary it's a made up word from my childhood. At least I hope so, she says with a mad rush towards the nearest dictionary:D
 
Just recently, I've really been liking the word butterfly.

One of my longer-term favorites is the word spooky.
 
I always found it interesting that some simple, common words have very complicated phonetic combinations.
Case in point: contexts.
Say that word aloud, and notice how in the second half of the word, your tongue and breath do some gymnastics. It's like...
con TEK-SSS-TSSS
The word priests also does that, and a few others.
First time I noticed it, I was very amused and fascintated.

Another curiousity: say the word mountain.
Why does it take twice as long to say the first syllable as the second? They are both 4 letters long.
Speech is so complicated, that it must be done almost automatically, like walking. If we really tried to understand exactly what we were doing, we would be speechless, and fall flat on our faces!
 
Yes, the word,"exsists," fits that mold nicely. Also the word, "glad," has always felt odd in the mouth machinations.


... supine
dredged
chronic ...
 
Yes!!
exists - that is the best example of that combination yet.
After the start of the word, a relatively simple sound - egg, we have to say - ZISS-ST-TSSSS.
The technical name for these essss sounds: voiceless alveolar sibilant.
That's a mouthful in itself!
 
Faves:

discombobulated
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (sp?)
silence
silvery
luminous
slice
darkness
 
Veggiedog, you reminded me I forgot to add a couple to the list.
Ostogenesis Imperfecta
Idopathic Juvenile Osteoperosis
Deoxyribonucleic acid.
The first two are bone diseases I studied, the first of which my brother suffers from. Deoxyribonucleic acid is DNA, which most of you probably knew already.
Don't you love long words? (Obviously, veggiedog does!)
 
  • omnipotent
  • chronicle
  • saga
  • zenith
  • twilight
  • frisbee
  • serenity
  • celestial
  • spark
  • delectable
  • star
  • regal
  • diamond
  • empire
 
ValkyrieRaven88 said:
Veggiedog, you reminded me I forgot to add a couple to the list.
Ostogenesis Imperfecta
Idopathic Juvenile Osteoperosis
Deoxyribonucleic acid.
The first two are bone diseases I studied, the first of which my brother suffers from. Deoxyribonucleic acid is DNA, which most of you probably knew already.
Don't you love long words? (Obviously, veggiedog does!)
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Yeah, my parents are trying to force me to be a doctor (it's an Indian thing, most people wouldn't understand) and I'm studying for the AP bio test and coming across all these incredible words:

noncyclic photophosphorylation
binomial nomenclature
faculatative anaerobes
photoperiodism
platyheliminthes
thigmotropism
acetylcholinesterase
hyperthyroidism

Those are just a few of the horrors I've experienced. They may not look so bad right now, but they start to contort into very ugly things when it comes to memorizing the definitions!

Here's a good one in Spanish:
achaplinarse -- to hesitate and run away in the manner of Charlie Chaplin.

Nice, huh? :D
 
LOL on the achaplinarse. I know enough Spanish to actually get the joke, LOL.
As for the Indian thing, I know what you're talking about even though I haven't experienced it. You're Indian as from India, then, right? (I'm part Indian as in Native American, that's why I'm asking.) We talked about different cultures in sociology and the teacher explained (to my all-white small-town class) that Indian-American kids were pushed harder than we were.
I couldn't take AP Bio...I suck too much at chemistry. *sad face* I'm an English/Spanish/Social Science person, not much of a Math/Science person or P.E. person.
 
I agree with discombobulated and would like to add flabbergasted and flummoxed. :rolleyes: Also, I tend to fall for books with words like swashbuckling, sculduggery and fisticuffs on the back cover. :D


*mrkgnao*
 
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