What is your favorite word in the English language?

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@Region Philbis,

I like "motel" coined from "motor hotel".

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@Ravenwood,

Ravenwood wrote:

Mine's defenestration. What's yours?

Well, I'm flubbered. For several years, I have been editing the Defenestrated Dictionary as a tribute to the Defenestration of Prague. (A good story if you ask Wikipedia.)

I submit one of my favorites.

Arkancide:
Serendipitous resolution of a political conundrum.

You're welcome.

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For some reason, I am unable to upvote
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@neologist,

The thumbs seem to have disappeared lately but they still work even though you can't see them. Just click/tap where they're supposed to be.

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My favourite word is spangle. I just really like the sound of it.

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@cherrie,

Hey! It worked.

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@cherrie,

cherrie wrote:

My favourite word is spangle. I just really like the sound of it.

Spangle is a festive word.

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@glitterbag,

You can't get them anymore though. My favourites were Old English.

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.2414340667.6365/flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.u15.jpg

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@coluber2001,

coluber2001 wrote:

Onomatopoeia

It has too many vowels. It points at a myriad of sounds that can only be insufficiently represented by words, and it demonstrates the limit of language to communicate the experience of sounds.

For instance, it's almost impossible to write the sound of laughter. Ha ha and ho ho don't even come close to representing the experience of laughing.

Always happens when the door is locked.

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It worked!

https://alpinescout.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/defenestration.jpg

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