Words you love.

[Gigano]

Floccinoccinihifillipication (again, sp?)

It's floccinaucinihilipilification.

[Hardisk]

Hence,
Nonetheless

Don't ask me why, just like them

[Sanjuricus]

Floccinoccinihifillipication (again, sp?)

It's floccinaucinihilipilification.

Thanks. I had an acute attach of "couldn'tbearsedtogooglethecorrectspellingitus" whilst making that post.

[Felstaff]

Hence,
Nonetheless

Don't ask me why, just like them

I prefer nevertheless, which I usually contract to ne'ertheless.

However, I dislike ne'er-do-wells. It sounds like something your Aunt in Kentucky would say.

[rolandoftheeld]

"Australopithicus." It has such a range of sounds that just slide into one another.

[Gigano]

Quintessential. I don't know why, it just sounds rather posh and sophisticated.

[Chuff]

However, I dislike ne'er-do-wells. It sounds like something your Aunt in Kentucky would say.

Au contraire, "ne're-do-wells ne'er gonna do well" has actually become somewhat of a new trend among the young folk.

[modularblues]

Scintillate and gossamer. They suggest magic within.

Quintessential. I don't know why, it just sounds rather posh and sophisticated.

I like this one too.

[mojacardave]

I'm a big fan of:

Vespertine

though I can't remember off the top of my head exactly what it means. I think it means something like 'of the night'.

[Monika]

That's a pretty word.

It seems to relate to the evening: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vespertine

[deskjethp]

network
research
source

I think it's the r sound they make...

[ShootTheChicken]

Smarmy.

<3

[mind404]

defenestration

[Anonymously Famous]

defenestration

I concur.

Also, "concur."

[Microscopic cog]

( to ) Skirl.

[darthchazza]

Ensconce (doubly points if I do so with a scone)

[freakingce]

Obsolete

[Gigano]

فلم [qalam] and صندلی [sandali], 'pen' and 'chair' respectively. They are Persian words. I just love the way they are totally dissimilar from any word for pen and chair that I know, even though Persian is an Indo-European language like English, French, German and Dutch.

[Softfoot]

Feel like I've just seriously necro'd this... Been looking for some inspiration for a workshop I and some colleagues are running on vocabulary learning. One of the exercises is to get teachers to talk about their favourite words - and why. Needed some things to get them started - and I've been drawing a blank on some of my favourite words.
So... Currently liking 'marsh'. It sounds like a nice, boggy, squelchy kind of word. Now that I think about it, I like squelch. There's something about all those chewy sounds as you mash them together to evoke an idea. And now I'm thinking about the word 'evoke'. I could be here awhile...

[UniqueScreenname]

Thrice is such a great word.

[MightGrabYou]

I have a certain love for the word Meta.

Which means I have a metafetish.

[UniqueScreenname]

I have a certain love for the word Meta.

Which means I have a metafetish.

I recently met a sixty-something-year-old named Meta Ball. Nuff said.