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[mmeeshal]

Haha:

 

KS Says--I admire this list of words. very well done. You only missed one word, and it happens to be my favorite: crestfallen.

 

Jack Popjes responds--Crestfallen, yes that is my favourite too–each time I drop my tube of toothpaste.

[mmeeshal]

My favorite word would be Flummoxed, not for it’s beauty, but for the ability to be what it describes

[mmeeshal]

I wish ‘superfluous’ was on this list. I think it just rolls off the tongue.

[mmeeshal]

I’m not alone!

 

What a delight to learn there are others who enjoy & appreciate words for their own sake. I know not a single soul – friend or kin – who does. And I’m tired of explaining that etymology has nothing to do with bugs.

 

Stephanie is right: if my favorite made the list (diaphanous) – then so should ‘superfluous’…it’s just as fabulous.

 

Edited December 29, 2011 by mmeeshal

[mmeeshal]

I’m quite a fan of the missing “Lackadaisical”, but otherwise find this to be a fantastic list.

[mmeeshal]

Terpsichorean – relating to dancing

Defenestrate – throwing someone/something out of a window

[Crimson_Ayla]

My favorite word would be Flummoxed, not for it’s beauty, but for the ability to be what it describes

 

Good word to say :)

 

Along with superfluous.

[mmeeshal]

I knew serendipity was going to be on there! But what about soliloquy?

[mmeeshal]

I’m rather partial to ‘shibboleth’ … Like stumbling over soft consonants …

[mmeeshal]

What about Zephyr: a gentle breeze; one of my all time favourites.

[mmeeshal]

*Now Listening: "Hasir" by Modeselektor

[mmeeshal]

Just to add to the list… I’m quite fond of the word “lachrymose” myself. And I know one of my friends just loves “saccharine.”

[mmeeshal]

I particularly enjoy effluance, for the contrast betwixt meaning and sound, and crepuscular, that there can even exist a word which describes such a beautiful thing so beautifully.

[mmeeshal]

Reading this aloud is the aural equivalent of eating good chocolate. Glad to see imbroglio and insouciance, but how can frisson (little shiver of pleasure) be overlooked?

[mmeeshal]

I would nominate ‘Pipistrelle’ – a common British bat – which to my mind is onomatopoeic of a bat swooping around in the dusk.

[Crimson_Ayla]

hemidemisemiquaver

[mmeeshal]

I like ‘zymurgy’ fermation process in brewing. Not only to say out loud but because it’s a lonely forgotten word at the end of the dictionary!

[mmeeshal]

hemidemisemiquaver

[mmeeshal]

I really miss the word “velocity” on this list

[mmeeshal]

‘ Antidisestablishmentarianism ‘

[mmeeshal]

‘Discombobulate’ – to be put at sixes and sevens, like a giddy kipper..

 

♥

Edited December 29, 2011 by mmeeshal

[mmeeshal]

Just for the pleasure of saying it I love ‘ ‘Spillikins’ (a game also known as ‘Jackstraws’ where you remove a thin stick from the pile of others without disturbing the rest of the pile.. . . good game too!)

[Crimson_Ayla]

I quite like idiosyncrasy

[Smiley73]

night time rowr

[mmeeshal]

‘Gallimaufry’

 

and

 

‘lugubrious’

 

Two splendidly delicious words.