Good Words
Despite Emily’s characterization of me as math, science, technology person (Ha ha ha!) I actually grew up preferring courses related to language arts. I tend to live in my head (for better and for worse) and I like imagination and self-expression. Like Emily, I really like words. I even have a habit of interrupting friends by declaring “Ooh, good word!” when they use a term that tickles my ears. It might be the use of a word I haven’t heard in a long while, a term that expresses an idea more perfectly than the term I was expecting to hear, or a word that actually conveys meaning through the way it actually sounds. Other times it’s simply the use of word in combination with the person that is saying it.
Here are a few words that I enjoy hearing.
What are some of your favorite words?
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July 12th, 2008 at 11:15 AM
Oxymoron, absolutely, however, hackneyed, and “botch.” The last one becuase my son says “botch” because he has trouble saying “bugs!”
July 12th, 2008 at 11:28 AM
How about these, Cliff:
Simplexity, habitudes, infosumption! I love these, fantabulous words!
July 12th, 2008 at 12:00 PM
I may be a science teacher, but I’m a linguist at heart! Some of my favs – spelunker, antidisestablishmentarianism, cattywampus, and two physiology terms: medulla oblongata and zona pelucida. Thanks for this post – good to know I’m not the only one!!!
July 12th, 2008 at 12:05 PM
I may be a science teacher but I’m a linguist at heart. Some of my favs include: spelunker, cattywampus, antidisestablishmentarianism, and two physiology terms: medulla oblongata and zona pelucida. Thanks for this post – it’s good to know I’m not the only one!!
July 12th, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Ah, fellow logophiles, I would add
mist, plethora, obsequious, and ‘mpa (granddaughter’s current version of grandpa).
July 15th, 2008 at 9:44 AM
oh man, hard to come up with a bunch on the fly; lets see.
epitaph, cacophony, saunter, truncate, enigma, and jalapeno!
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