Dec
29
Tawny
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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 the troop of Redcoats marching, silhouetted against that tawny sunset. I can see the tawny lion charging from out of the… There is a beautiful blond woman I know with tawny hair which suggests strength of character and action. I like to say the word! I like the way it comes off the tongue, an adjective that gives force to any noun it modifies. Thank you for giving me the reason for putting my feeling for words into words!
Scrub
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Dec
29
It tickles me that there is a word for the act of contemplating your navel. How could it not be the coolest word in the English language?
shea
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Dec
29
Zebra
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I always liked the word just the way it sounds. Zeb-ra. It’s just a small, cute, fast word.
Dory
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Dec
29
Miscellaneous
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My favorite word is miscellaneous because that is how our world is today. An odd assortment of races and personalities joining together to be one single subject.
Emily
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Dec
29
Lime
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My favorite word is lime, preferably the plural, limes. I like it because it is just fun to say. Also a great flavor
Bebey
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Dec
29
Schnapps
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This word is great when you’re playing hangman: eight letters and only one vowel! The usual strategy of guessing vowels before consonants fails completely.
Peter Turney
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Dec
29
Flibbertigibbet
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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 meant.
I felt like such a flibbertigibbet when I put my income tax return into the trash can and mailed my banana peel.
Diana
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Dec
29
Schmutz
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Schmutz is my favorite word. I use it when I’m describing something I don’t want to touch, or something that needs to be cleaned, or something ambiguously dirty that is relatively small. I like to put emphasis on the word when I say it, and raise my eyebrows, as if to express my distaste for what I’m referring to. It’s fun to say.
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Dec
29
Lift to Experience
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You said it. You’re allowing me to use a phrase, so I’m taking it and running! Lift to experience, as in the phrase inscribed on the perfume sample pages of magazines. You’ve never noticed it, but go look. On each and every perfume sample page in a magazine, it’s inscribed. I never noticed that myself, but when a friend started a local band called, Lift to Experience, I had to know where it came from. We always thought it had to do with the ephemeral sounds and the deeply religious background of the boys in the band, but nope. It’s a pretty prolific thing to write on a simple ad, and consistently so, don’t you think?
Nancy Shelton
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Dec
29
Strumpet
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OK, so I am fond of the images it conjures… Philology wise, I would like to think the origins came from “strum” and “crumpet,” though I suspect otherwise. To Strum - to play or lightly touch. A crumpet - a nice soft muffin. Obviously then, a strumpet must be someone encompassing both these attributes - maybe someone you would even hire. Strumpet even contains “trumpet” for those who would have the “brass” and boldness to carry this title.
Robert
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