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Chicken

I like to use this word as a substitute for swearing. Being around kids one summer made me have to do this. It ended up being great as this word is way more satisfying to yell out in public than any other choice four-letter word one may use. The only problem now is people [...]

Egregious

It’s shocking, outrageous and conspicuously bad. Well, the word isn’t, but what it describes is.  I love the ‘ous’-ness of the word.  And the middle two syllables that sound like a heavy metal object being dragged, screeching along a concrete floor. And my wife told me she heard of a book called I Always [...]

Thigh

It’s a soft marshmallow kind of a word, sounds like a low breath out – it conjures up an intimate image, and it’s just plain sexy.

Wendy Fleming-Smith

United Kingdom