Jan
20
Loquacious
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The word sounds gentle and is so familiar although it describes something which can be quite disturbing!
Jane Raoul-Duval
Spain
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Jan
4
Love
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My favorite word is love.
It has around 28 different definitions in the dictionary but when defined by the heart, our human language fails.
The memories and thoughts provoked by the word and the feelings that arise. The smile and sometimes the tears that come with the word. No matter how many times a heart can falter it still gets back up and seeks after this word. Love.
Anon.
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Jan
2
Loquacious
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It’s hard to pin down why I love this word, but the simplest reason is that loquacious is a smooth and friendly word, which happens to describe a smooth and friendly sort of person. Lo, kway and shus are all easy to say (for a native speaker of English, at least) and they team up to great effect in this word.
Ian Wallace
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Jan
2
Lindy
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Lindy is the abbreviation for “Lindy Hop” used by modern-day addicts of the 1930’s dance. Lindy can be fast and frantic or slow and sensual. The feeling of connection that comes from that perfect dance is impossible to describe to non-dancers, but trust me - it is a wonder.
In addition, it is my wife’s name. And it is how we met.
Greg Howley
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Jan
1
Laeotropic
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It means “leftward-turning,” and is usually used to describe shells and things pertaining to marine life, biology, and so on. Like anti-clockwise things, it’s a word given because it’s denoting a rarer state, but without defining it as ‘not [the usual state.]’ It evokes stairwells under the ocean made of coral or calcium carbonate, and scientists and collectors in the Victorian era. Being left-handed it appeals personally to me enough that I used it in the title of my webpages.
Jen
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Jan
1
Lozenge
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Saying the word lozenge is as soothing as using a lozenge. The lack of hard consonants is the secret. The day I am able to use the word lozenge in a game of scrabble is the day I can die a happy man.
Grant Sanders, Nantucket, MA
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Dec
29
Lift to Experience
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You said it. You’re allowing me to use a phrase, so I’m taking it and running! Lift to experience, as in the phrase inscribed on the perfume sample pages of magazines. You’ve never noticed it, but go look. On each and every perfume sample page in a magazine, it’s inscribed. I never noticed that myself, but when a friend started a local band called, Lift to Experience, I had to know where it came from. We always thought it had to do with the ephemeral sounds and the deeply religious background of the boys in the band, but nope. It’s a pretty prolific thing to write on a simple ad, and consistently so, don’t you think?
Nancy Shelton
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Dec
23
I have loved the word lugubrious ever since I first heard it in the Disney movie Hercules. (”Coming, your lugubriousness”).
I soon came across it in literature, and to this day to see it in print gives me a feeling of deep pleasure and amusement. Lugubrious…”Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woeful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and alugubrious look.”
What word could be more onomatopoeic?
I love the sound of the long “lagoo” followed by such a noble sounding “brious.” Especially when together the word has such sombre, serious and yet ridiculous sound.
Perhaps I’m just a word nerd, but this is one of my favorites to throw into a conversation and watch peoples eyebrows raise.
Shannon
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