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Favorite Word: Serendipity Why?: It means, “the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way; a fortunate accident.” People are constantly hoping for a beneficial event to occur in everyday life, no matter what culture or continent they are from. It’s also fun to say. Name: Kylie Location (optional): [...] Favorite Word: Preantepenult Why?: I love the word “penult” because it’s the syllable before the last one. Then there’s the fact that you have two prefixes meaning “before” in the same word. Plus, there’s the fact that it means not the last syllable, not the syllable before that, not the syllable before that one, [...] Favorite Word: thanatopsis Why?: In my angst-filled, overly morbid teenaged years, I loved dropping the word thanatopsis into casual conversation. It means a meditation on death. I fancied it evoked swooning, consumptive poets in black velvet. I’m over that phase, but I still love the word. Name: the other m Location (optional): Austin, TX, [...] Scherzando, even with its slightly awkward lumps of consonants, is a pleasant word. I can’t help but say it with a smile and a little flourish, which fits perfectly with its meaning, “in a light playful manner.” Lillian Houston, Texas Simply because it has more definitions in the OED than any other word. Jezmo Well the word is an adjective meaning ‘lacking value or maturity’, but I have gotten some laughs when I tell people that it really means “the m-month a-after m-May”. Jim Nuznoff Tallmadge, OH USA Meaning to depart, decamp, stealthily. When I first began work after leaving university, my new colleagues used to have a word of the day, picked from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, with a prize for whoever could find a legitimate use for it. “Absquatulate” was my choice, and I was able to use it [...] |
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