Favorite English words

Now that I am back my best friend and I have resurrected our internet journal books but now have added letters to the process ala Griffen and Sabine.. We also had a discussion of using wonderful english words in these letters and postcards. This led to which words are our favorite ones for no particular reason. So post your favorite english words or even favorite german words. If you post german words maybe throw in their meaning also.

Favorite english words:

Concur
Serendipitous

Favorite German word:

Genau

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forsooth
Wins hands down!

resplendent

ooh I never heard that I need to look it up. It looks cool.

Edit: Ok warner I am stealing that word.

Bed, and chocolate.

Sporadic.

Mellifluous

Deleted due to drugs

Alright now that we cleared that up I will steal that one also.

Be my guest, I can hardly claim that I invented it!

Lycanthropic

Prestidigitation

But do you use these words I am wondering FR and BFB?

gobbledygook

discombobulation

Not recently but we did have a time when me and a few of my mates used to have a word of the day then have to use it as may times as possible in normal conversation. This used to run Monday to Friday so by the end of the week you would have five words that you would have to try and get into the same sentence.

Come Friday night in the pub you would end up coming out with some right shit, which only got worse once the drugs kicked in

Here is one: Nebulas

I like the word flapdoodle. Or, akimbo.

Edit: I also like caddywampus.

And, yes, I use these words almost every day in conversation.

acclivity.

awkward
It looks like what it means, all corners and edges and twisted spelling

I concur

Auntie- especially when a certain little 5 year old boy says it to me.

Hoser! I forgot about that one. I actually love this word. Oh shit which reminds me I have yet to speak to SOB ( my favorite canadian).

EDIT: For the record I love everything Canadian

I like words that sound like what they mean (if that makes sense) without being onomatopoeic: mellifluous (already given above) or lascivious, for example.

oh, take off, eh!

confabulation
A delightful expression for a strange disorder

Alright Sarabryd that one is mine now also.

Perhaps a snippet of Blackadder would help:

Edmund Blackadder, Dr. Johnson and Prince George standing in Prince Georges parlour discussing Dr. Johnsons dictionary.

J: Well, I simply observed, sir, that I'm felicitous, since, during the
course of the penultimate solar sojourn, I terminated my uninterrupted
categorisation of the vocabulary of our post-Norman tongue.

G: Well, I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds damn saucy,
you lucky thing! I know some fairly liberal-minded girls, but I've
never penultimated any of them in a solar sojourn, or, for that matter,
been given any Norman tongue!

E: I believe, sir, that the Doctor is trying to tell you that he is happy
because he has finished his book. It has, apparently, taken him ten years.

G: Yes, well, I'm a slow reader myself...

J: (places two manuscripts on the table, but picks up the top one)
Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English scholarship. This book,
sir, contains every word in our beloved language.

G: Hmm.

E: Every single one, sir?

J: (confidently) Every single word, sir!

E: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if
I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribblarities.

J: What?

E: `Contrafribblarites', sir? It is a common word down our way.

J: Damn! (writes in the book)

E: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anus-peptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have
caused you such pericombobulation*.

J: What? What? WHAT?

G: What are you on about, Blackadder? This is all beginning to sound a bit
like dago talk to me.

E: I'm sorry, sir. I merely wished to congratulate the Doctor on not having
left out a single word. (J sneers) Shall I fetch the tea, Your Highness?

G: Yes, yes -- and get that damned fire up here, will you?

E: Certainly, sir. I shall return interphrastically. (exits) (J writes some
more)
etc. etc. etc

* - My fave

Oh, yeah, so you imagined that you brought up the word yourself and claim ownership to it. Stop confabulating!

What's the adjective form of that? Oh, I'm all confabulated again. How confabulous!

fellatio

El Guapo: Would you say there is a Plethora?
Bandito: Si El Guapo.
El Guapo: Do you even know what a Plethora is?
Bandito: No El Guapo.

I just stole this from JJ :
hystrionics
Isnt it a pretty word?

Flange...

Have to add this commonly used one but still sounds nice: ambiguous

Refulgent
Rantapine
Quake
Would have went

Not a single word, but a felicitous conglomeration from a cookery book, er, sorry, compendium of comestibles:

The dough requires to be attacked with vivacious turbulence.

It's probably the longest word in the English language, but doesn't describe anything nice

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It describes a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of fine silica dust.

Cellar Door

Cheers, suggestion and spooky

onomatopoeia.

But what does it sound like?

phlegm

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book...va=onomatopoeia Click on the little red speaker icon here.

'Actually' I love that word. Perhaps is another great word. Hoopla being another great word. Pop is most fantastic. not simply because you can pop a cap into someone's ass, but also because you can pop down to the little shoppe or pop over to America wonderful really. The greatest word of all time being potentially. It's great!

Another good reason to stem the tide of canucks into this safe bastion called the USA.

PoP! Goes My Heart

Malformed now theres a word.

I fixed it.

(It's even got a nurse for you )

Have you been watching the fox news a lot recently I think your picking up their quoting style.

No the 700 Club but close enough eh?

@mariposa

Alright thats it you are placed on a time out from this thread for posting that rubbish.