I love words--well, perhaps not all of them. Let's face it, some words are just better than others, not necessarily because of their meanings, but because they are fun to say and have a certain aesthetic appeal when written.
In no particular order, here are a few of my favorites:
opaque, gibbet, ubiquitous, paragon, quixotic, flask, ebullient, vivid...
There are more, but those are the ones that first come to mind.
Today the Merriam-Webster people announced the 2007 Word of the Year. It's w00t.
See the definition here: Word of the Year
As the mother of a pre-teen and the wife of an online gamer, I've been aware of the word for some time. Eh, it's not bad I suppose. It's nothing close to a word like illuminate or even as much fun to say as some of the runners-up. I HAD to click on the definition of "Pecksniffian." How about you? It was nice to see that one of my favorite words made the top-ten list.
Whether my favorite words make the top-ten lists or not, I'll keep using them and with my trusty dictionary by my side, I'm sure I'll also keep finding more and more favorites.
Word, nerd.
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2 comments:
Good ones...my personal favorite:
mendacity.
Oh, yeah. That's a good one. It's funny how many more fun words popped into my head as soon as I published the post. Some more I thougt of were: pendantic, scurrillous, pernicious. Funny that most of my favorite words are polysyllabic---another awesomely-cool word.
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