Sep
30
Fabulist
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A liar, or one who tells fables.
This word thrills me to no end, not only for the fact that I rarely hear it, but also because it sounds so similar to fabulous, which fabulists most certainly are.
Chyna
Alaska
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Sep
18
Hullabaloo
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I adore the word Hullabaloo (din or fuss). Not only because I can’t say it without smiling, but it just tumbles out my mouth excitedly everytime its spoken. For me it manages to encapsulate childhood magic and exoticism all in one.
Cookie Daniel
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Sep
18
Oxymoron
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My favourite word is oxymoron. It just sounds so fantastic. It always reminds me of a large load carrying beast and an idiot. For example an ox carrying Homer Simpson.
Amelia
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Sep
18
My favorite word came to me via a horoscope reading. In mid page, under the heading of Sagittarius, I read for the first time the word sentipensante. It has it’s root in the Spanish language, and is a thought composite of “to feel while thinking”. The heart and the head should have equal say, and what a euphonic word to describe it.
Ian Campbell
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Sep
18
Rhetoric
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My favourite word is rhetoric because it’s such a pleasure to say out loud. Your tongue sweeps down the roof on your mouth before the word ends with a sharp little flourish in the back of your throat. Nabokov makes a similar observation about the name ‘Lolita’ – I love the way that words can be very sensual and enjoyable to say regardless of their meaning.
Rachel
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Sep
18
I learned this word in college when I was a theater major. A gobo is a stencil for light used to create patterns. I first encountered it when a director decided to create the illusion of moonlight through trees using a gobo. I immediately thought “cool word,” followed by “what a great name for a band.”
Kara Morin
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Sep
18
It’s fun to say. Spa-chu-la. Not spat-oo-la, though. No, that just sounds silly.
Larissa
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Sep
18
Inkling
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My favourite English word is definitely inkling. I learned it when looking for some other word in my dictionary, and it immediately made me think of the detective stories I used to read during the summer holidays when I was about 14 years old. This is the perfect word to express the suspicions you have when reading such a story, since they are suspicions that arise from a world of paper… and ink.
lady of the lake
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Sep
14
Incognito
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One out of the list of my favourite words. I like it because it’s so different to most words you come across. And it has a pretty cool meaning as well: “The condition of having a disguised or concealed identity”
Paul Hunn
Weymouth, Dorset, UK
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Sep
13
Drapes
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Because it compels me to sense a lazy and gentle dream like feeling, the sort of which one senses as he or she lightly lies down besides a sleeping loved one in a gentle burst of emancipation after an exhausting day. It makes me see and feel soft long hair as it slides through your fingers, silky clothing as it slides and lays on a gentle breeze. Sleeping through a light wet morning.
Luke Galea
Malta
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