Am I allowed to pick a foreign language word? If yes, I’d like to submit spookasem (spook pronounced as per the English word for a ghost and asem pronounced ah-sim). This is an Afrikaans word which quite literally translates as “ghost breath,” to me, the most wonderful description for candyfloss ["cotton candy" in the [...]

Serendipitous–to make a fortunate discovery by accident. I try to spend as much of my life as possible looking for fortunate accidents and by doing so very often find them. It’s a lovely word and a lovely way to spend one’s time.

Barbara Blann

My favorite word is “tawny.” The visual imagery it evokes is powerful. I first came to appreciate it in Alfred Noyes’ poem The Highwayman:

“He did not come in the dawning; He did not come at noon; And out o’ the tawny sunset, before the rise of the…”

I see that sunset! I see [...]

I always liked the word just the way it sounds. Zeb-ra. It’s just a small, cute, fast word.

Dory

My favorite word is lime, preferably the plural, limes. I like it because it is just fun to say. Also a great flavor

Bebey

The word is fun to say and sounds so much more polite than calling someone flighty or an airhead. Think about it. Doesn’t flibbertigibbet just sound like what it means? I believe if you called someone who had never heard the word a flibbertigibbet without explanation, she or he would know precisely what it [...]