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Popocatapetl

A mountain in Mexico – I think it’s a volcano – a friend and I discovered this name in year 10 geography at high school and instantly fell in love with it! The way it sounds with the ‘p’s and ‘t’s gets me every time – and of course it sounds exotic. My US [...]

Perspicacity

Because it’s just such a fantastic sounding word rolling off your tongue – especially if said in a mock-southern US accent, stretching out the first syllable. The ‘r’ and the ‘p’s are fantastic, it virtually crackles as you say it! It’s also a cool meaning – ‘having insight’ but mostly its just the way [...]

Tarantism

The overwhelming urge to banish one’s melancholy by dancing. Happiness!

Jessie California

Chondrichthyes

I love the way it sounds, but it is terribly hard to work into conversation.

Sarah Santa Fe