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It sounds like metal-lined flowers blooming in pools of enamel. It sounds like it looks. I’d heard the word in passing but never knew how it looked. It would roll around my head for days. And then, one afternoon while walking in Geneva, I found a jewelry store by the same name. In Geneva [...] I fell in love with plethora during my first year working at the student newspaper in college. Plethora seemed to be such an elegant, intellectual word. Instead of saying many, a lot, or several, there is the beautiful plethora. How could you not love it? Melanie Let me add my vote in favor of this potent little phrase. In a car, in a conversation with a friend where this came up as a perfect explanation of what lawyers should TRY to do, another occupant of the car asked: “What language is that?” Jay Fogel My pop taught me this word in the 6th grade. We used to drive 45 minutes every morning to my school (we lived way out in the woods and it’s a long story why I didn’t go to the local school). This was pretty much the only time I had my pop to me [...] Once upon a time, Elvis Costello’s music publishing company was named “Plangent Visions Music.” I saw this on a record once, and had to look up plangent – “Having an expressive or plaintive quality.” A gorgeous word. Paul D. It simply rolls off the tongue wonderfully. It also looks cool — especially when it’s all in lower case–with a bunch of low round letters and two tall ones. Daniel Sack The silver heights and secret valleys of a body bathed by the moon. The long shadow of a dark knight cast full across a chess board by way of sunset through venetian blinds. The sharp crags and steep reliefs of lovers prone to quarrel. Chiaroscuro describes the topography of ancient archetypes and the interplay [...] Radicchio [rah-DEE-kee-oh] This red-leafed Italian chicory is most often used as a salad green. Why do I love it? Try this: Pretend you are Italian and roll the “R” at the beginning as you say it. So much verbal fun I can’t stand it. Shannon Gifford Lancaster, PA. USA just the sound of it, the way it feels in your mouth when saying it, and that it describes a sound, though not an onomatopoeia (another good word) exactly, but in that vein. This phrase says it all and really works in any situation. It is the most efficient, expressive catch all phrase I have ever come across. “Did you get your work done today?” “Oh, come on now!” “Will you buy me those shoes?” “Oh, come on now?” Try it out — it’s perfect — really. Roger Sounds evil, but means versatile (sort of). Daniel S. It’s the unoffical state fish of Hawai’i. Why do I like the word? Because it just rolls off the tongue, and it’s fun to say. Try it. It sounds just like it looks: Hoo Moo Hoo Moo Noo Koo Noo Koo Ah Poo Ah Ah. OK, maybe it’s tough to say the first time, [...] |
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