The name of this shade-loving perennial reminds me of my oldest daughter’s baby babble as she learned to talk.

Kathy Bee Wisconsin

I like this word because it is a simply elegant way of saying ‘previously mentioned’. Its meaning is unusually simple and straightforward. I like how it only exists in the past tense.

Dee Galway

I am so accustomed to working in situations that would be described as catastrophes or disasters that I am always overcome with blissful jubilation when things improve so vastly and dramatically that they can be termed a fiasco. I have no experience with any set of conditions better than this.

Chris USA

When I was a little girl learning to spell my dad would say, “How do you spell ‘syzygy’?” I never knew it was a real word. I just thought he made it up. Then I found it one day in the dictionary. It is the word used to describe when all the planets line [...]

The “cr” at the start makes the “r” at the end even more pronounced and interesting. Known as a rich, light, raised doughnut, often with a ridged surface and sometimes topped with white icing. Sometimes called a French cruller.

Donna USA

It’s fun to say and sounds almost gilded, like an antique of a noble time. Tolkien made me a fan of this word, and the odd looks one gets when one uses it in conversation is almost worth getting pegged as being pretentious.

Jenna K. NYC