Jan
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Zymurgy
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Basically this is the word for the art/science of beer-making. Not only is it in that respect an eminently useful and practical thing, it also stands out because of its zy initial letters and gy ending, which is rather uncommon in English but frequent in French.
Tony A. Emond
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Jan
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Gloam
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Gloam: n. (archaic) twilight; dusk. The modern equivalent is “gloaming,” but I’m more familiar with the archaic version for some reason. To me, the gloam is the tiny window after sun has completely vanished but before the streetlights come on. Every figure becomes a shadow and the sky takes on this diffuse, other-worldly half-light quality. The gloam is like a dreamscape. “The gloam” connotes a phyisical medium, perhaps like the ether. It suggests actually being within something, as opposed to twilight or dusk, which are just a time of day.
Mike
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Jan
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Awkward
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The perfect word. It sounds and it is spelled in a way that can only be described as what it means — awkward. What other word could possibly be spelled with wkw in the middle of it?
Stewart
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Jan
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Calenture
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It’s a fever that sailors would sometimes get where they would see the ocean as a huge, rolling sea of green grass, and leap off the ship to run across it, and drown.
Giles
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Jan
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Confounded
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I enjoy the idea of confusion bestowed from a spiritual origin.
Jared Tarbell
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Jan
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Salubrious
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Just say it … sal-oo-bree-uss….
Hypnotoad
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Jan
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Cwm
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Cwm, pronounced “koom.” Why? Because it is the only English word without a vowel. It means “valley.” Grand, isn’t it?
Tim Nayar
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Jan
1
Scree
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You can’t say it without smiling. Gather together your family and friends and have them say this magic word and you’ll be presented with a dozen smiling faces. Words that can do this are rare indeed.
p.s. Its meaning has something to do with rocky debris found at the foot of a cliff, a duller definition for such a grand word simply cannot be found.
Jon Lyus
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Jan
1
Slacks
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The word rolls from the front to the back of the mouth in its utterance, activating the entire mouth, tongue, and jaw. It begins with a slithering “sss” progresses to a wide-mouth “aaa” and and then strikes with a harsh “k” before slithering away. It would be onomatopoeic if it were a word involved with violence.
Alex
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Jan
1
Kiplefti
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Swahili for traffic roundabout. I love it for the origin (Keep Left signs placed by the Colonial authorities) and the way it has become Africanized. There is a class of words (Ki is singular, Vi is plural) that fits and Swahili always adds a vowel at the end.
Andy Carling
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