i just like the way the ‘thr’ sound together.
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i just like the way the ‘thr’ sound together. Midori I remember reading this word in the dictionary when I was in sixth grade and just falling in love with it. It starts with a Z which automatically makes it bad-ace but it’s definition when I first read it was “a warm, soft breeze”. I was in Buffalo, New York at the time spending [...] because you cant say it without smiling and it and if you say it slowly its makes your mouth feel calm… flora hemming uk Because everytime I use it, the other person’s eyes widen It actually means a very timid person. Veena India Because ‘discombulated’ would have made more sense, but it would have defeated the original purpose of the word which is to throw one off or to ‘disconcert or confuse’. So they shoved Bob in the middle. Bob- the deus ex machina of word creation. Kat LA-CA It is a silky, smooth and voluptuous sounding word – completely different to its meaning. Aurora London I won’t buy a dictionary unless it includes the word “fubsy”. Fubsy! So much better than saying “short and squat”! A. G. Duffy Toronto This word has a good mouth-feel, an excellent huh-factor and a satisfying meaning: “an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist”. Kind of makes you want to treat it with a little respect. A. G. Duffy Toronto Everything is a plan, whether we mean it to be or not. I find a lot of meaning in this small word. Also, the epic album by Death Cab for Cutie. Megan Graveline Chicago “i haven’t got much stickatitiveness today” My mother used to say this if she was not feeling like completing some task or other. Did she invent the word???? Shirley Powley Howard, Queensland the shortest distance may be a straight line but it’s not always the best, easiest or efficient… i learned this from an electrical engineer years ago… rectilinear = neatness by design. jc little rock |
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