Favorite word?

paradigm

I love the silent 'g' there in midsts of it all.

digm = dime

Joe(If I had a pair of dimes I'd have 20 2 Cents

)Nation

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@Joe Nation,

That is a pretty sweet word. I do have to say I like the silent letters though they tend to mess me up. How do you know when to make them silent? I would have pronounced the word paradig(e)m

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@Seed,

But it reminds me of an unfavorite word, parameters.
That's another whole thread..

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@Seed,

Circumnavigation

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@Rockhead,

oooo I like how that one sounds

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@Rockhead,

A favorite word amongst global explorers!

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bumbershoot

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@Eva,

Bumbershoot, yes! And galluses.

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ostrobogulous

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@dadpad,

Could you use your favourite word in a great sentence, dp? Wink

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I find many of the posters on A2k to be ostrobogulous.

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@dadpad,

Quote:

“Ostrobogulous” was Vickybird’s favourite word. It stood for anything from the bawdy to the slightly off-colour. Any double entendre that might otherwise have escaped his audience was prefaced by, “if you will pardon the ostrobogulosity”.

Magic my Youth, by Arthur Calder-Marshall, 1951.

It was coined by Victor Neuburg (Vickybird in the quotation), a gay British Jewish poet and writer and a close friend of the occultist Aleister Crowley, whose sexual magic practices he helped develop.

Le'see.. the boy was gay, he was Jewish, he was a poet/writer and to top it off, he was British. A British toff.

Toff is a good word. Isn't it? Or is it kind of snarky and not what polite people would say.

Joe(eh?)Nation

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@Joe Nation,

PROPULSION
tantamount to otomatopoeia..

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@ossobuco,

Perpetual (motion)

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'SPURTLE'

it sounds quite ...

naughty...

though ...

it's only:

... " A wooden stick for stirring porridge."

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circumcision

for some reason, I like it.

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@sullyfish6,

been there, done that, never again

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ineluctable

in·e·luc·ta·ble (n-lkt-bl)
adj.
Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable

I first became aware of the word while reading Ulysses. "Ineluctable modality of the visible." When I think of that novel, this sentence always comes to mind, like a melody one never forgets.

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That's beautiful, edgar, too true.

I know all the wordies here know about this site, but how many of you have passed it on? http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html

Starting my day without Anu Garg would be like skipping my morning coffee. I could do it, but the people around me would regret it.

Hmmm. osteoporoses is what I started to write.

Joe(but obstreperous is what I was thinking.)Nation

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@Joe Nation,

I had forgotten about that site. Thanks, JoeN.

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