BBC poll - 50 favourite words

[trianne]

omg, my FAVOURITE is in there! First in the list :) 2nd favourite is Mellifluous, if anyone's counting...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7659954.stm

#21 reminds me of alchehmilla :D xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Comments

[alchemie]

Alch + Elijah = a staccato, mechanical sound and conjures up an image of a robot scrabbling to hold itself together when all its nuts and bolts suddenly start to fall out. Which is just how one feels when discombobulated!

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xox

[msilverstar]

Defenstrate! What a great word, when I hear/read that, I think of the French word "fenêtre" (which I also like), and the root of both the words, the Latin "fenestra", and how I suspect that is related to "vent" but I'm not sure...

[trianne]

hee hee
I usually say I want to "defenestrate my computer" and people either look blank or laugh :D

[ladysunrope]

I do like the words palimpsest and discombobulate (very hobbity to me) but I meet the word proprioception in my job quite a lot. I like words that make their presence felt, if you see what I mean. Mullion, catharsis, defenestrate -your mouth has to work at it, these words can't just slip out.