Paleooology is my favourite word because it has three “o”s in a row. What’s not to like? Also the idea that there’s a science devoted solely to fossilized eggs is quite pleasing.
James UK
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I love how a word that means “beautiful” is so ugly-sounding. It could make the best backhanded compliment, but at the same time it’s such an extravagant word that if someone knows what it means, it could also be the best kind of praise. Krystle C. Ottawa, Canada It’s onomatopoeic without trying to be. Bob Northeast It’s that G at the beginning. The sound of the word fits its meaning somehow, but that G enables it to conjure up images of mis-shapen trees and terribly old men, so well that I find it oddly funny. Hope it’s not just me! Mark Harwood Isle of Arran This word is quite interesting… but there’s a caveat: And that is how it’s done. It means a warning, essentially. This word is so ominous and imposing that it’s not even English. As a fun little extra, it also has three (at least) quick phrases that you can throw into almost any situation: [...] It’s just fun to say. I like to say it and put the emphasis on different syllables until it starts to sound Chinese. It’s also a word I could easily imagine in a child’s rhyme game, it may actually be in one. It’s a word that I never have occasion to say in a [...] I love this word. To me it connotes the crinkly eyes people get when they smile. I have a friend with crinkly eyes. Obviously, you have to avoid using the word to describe people who are perhaps older, as to others it can be interpreted as rude. Hatti There are so many whiners in this world but so few words to describe them. Carol Tx A word as difficult to find as an occurrence of its main meaning: the confluence of three or more celestial bodies. Its uniqueness in the world of English words–the second-longest word failing to contain a, e, i, o, or u, surpassed only by “rhythms” and tied with its singular–makes this one of my favorite [...] Roughly speaking, a quale (plural “qualia”) is the character of a sensory experience. It’s not the color red as light (which is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of roughly 625–740 nm), but what you experience when looking at something red that you don’t experience when looking at something (e.g.) blue or green. It’s an [...] Because of the sheer irony that it is the fear of long words, that it is 27 letters long, and it is pleasing in the shape of your mouth at the time it comes out, as it is no way uncomfortable (I had to think of a substitute for rolls off your tongue). Anon England |
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