Christa10
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My dad's family was from the Flandreau area. When I was 16 I visited my grandfather's farm and had fun chasing the sheep! Good memories.
Favorite and/or least favorite words
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A least favourite word of mine is HEALTH because I have a bad memory associated with it….I came in second in my elementary school spelling bee with it….my competitor …who was one year older….won with dentist! With nerves the last three letters just got mixed up in my head. And I would not be consoled that he was a year older…no excuse for failing! Ohhh the expectations
one of my favourites is ENTHUSIASTIC …..because I’d practiced it soooo much and was soooo cross they’d given me health instead the joy of knowing how to spell it has remained with me
nowadays I do enjoy saying HISSYFIT
one of my favourites is ENTHUSIASTIC …..because I’d practiced it soooo much and was soooo cross they’d given me health instead
the joy of knowing how to spell it has remained with menowadays I do enjoy saying HISSYFIT
Yes thoughts usually disappear with the dawn! Lol
haha - juxtaposing!
My recent favourites that I tend to use are exacerbate, penultimate, cohort ( i work in education so this comes up a lot), and nomenclature. I'm still not sure I pronounce the latter correctly.
I have some words that I hate when they are pronounced in the British way, but I'm fine with the American pronunciation. (As an aside - I hate when people say pronounciation instead of pronunciation. That's a real bugbear of mine). Examples are: omnipotent, qualitative, quantitative, and there are numerous others which i forget right now.
I have a masters degree in applied linguistics so words and grammar interest me a lot. And I've lived in Aussie, USA and the United Kingdom so i have been exposed to lots of different variations on English words and their pronunciation. I also sometimes get confused as to pronunciation because of
I recently did a creative writing course and we discussed some annoying/strange words there. One such word was 'plinth'. Anyway, I managed to incorporate this word into a poem that i wrote about our au pair we had when we lived in the UK - she was from Spain. The crew from the course loved the poem - although it may lose something in the reading. It is, after all, a performance piece ( bonus points if you spot the typo):
Patricia Rodriguez
(AKA Patrithia Rodrigeth)
No es RodrigESS,
She humphed
Es RodrigETH!
TH
She said it with a gentle pause,
A silence
An unfilled climax
TH
The tip of her tongue barely touching her teeth
I question whether she ever really said TH at all.
We would say thththththth
Like a slowly deflating balloon
RodrigETHTHTHTH
Father
Mother
First language interference
Therapeutic
Thrashing
Thermoluminescence
Thumbsucker
Mythical
Plinth
thththththth
Anyway
My Spanish teacher was Costarricuense
Con acento Sudamericano
Where Z is an ess and not a th
And I say RodrigESS
Rodriguez
Just read this, and all the subsequent posts, before I clicked!
Did she ask if she could come too?
Um, she did not. Perhaps she is adequately satisfied already?Just read this, and all the subsequent posts, before I clicked!
Did she ask if she could come too?
Thermoluminescence??!!
Revisiting this thread just made my day after such a serious day on the Forum what with all the safe essential oil usage rates and undissolved lye crystals and all.
I'm sending the th/z poem to my son who is a poet and spent a semester in Spain trying to master the th/z.
And plinth! At my last job, I was on the team building a new facility and I learned many new vocabulary words from our architect and my favorite was plinth!
Catscankim
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My favorite words are not allowed to be spoken on this forum 
I grew up incredibly sheltered in what was then a largely homogenous community of Scandinavian Lutherans in South Dakota, USA. My world opened up marvelously in college when I moved to Chicago. I had a coworker who when she made a mistake would mutter under her breath "chicharrones!" For months I thought it was a curse word in Spanish! And it's not. It's like my pious father's "curse word" is "Rumpelstiltskin."
Maybe it would have been an anti-climax anyway once she saw what you were really doing (loving all the double entendre I'm using by the way!)Um, she did not. Perhaps she is adequately satisfied already?
Thermoluminescence??!!
Is that your guess? Beeeeeeeeeep! Wrong.
There is something very satisfactory about saying the word “conciliatory” aloud
“moist” - ew!! Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, unfortunately used the word “moistly” at the outset of the pandemic when speaking about the benefits of masking up. The whole country talked about that for days, and turned it into a meme.
“[A mask] protects others more than it protects you,” Trudeau said, before slowing down to search for the right words.
“It prevents you from breathing or speaking moistly on them,” Trudeau said, then instantly regretted.
“What a terrible image,” he immediately muttered after the misstep…”
That would be "kitten love" then, wouldn't it?My favorite words are not allowed to be spoken on this forum
@KiwiMoose I believe the correct spelling is Costarricense, n'est pas?
I was thinking about kitten love a lot when I read that post.That would be "kitten love" then, wouldn't it?
@KiwiMoose I believe the correct spelling is Costarricense, n'est pas?
Well I never - I've had costarricense spelled wrong all that time and never knew - thanks Ali!
The typo has more to do with what Mrs Zing might have felt had she decided to go with @Zing for the masterbatching.
I'm barely following or understanding all the comments -- but I'm still LM kitten-loving AO! And apparently it's not just grown men that think like 12 year old boys....
...or 14 year old girls.
Myriad is one of my favorites but so often used incorrectly. Exacerbate is also one of my favorites as are penultimate, traipse, sashay and mosey. My least favorite word is the “F” bomb. It has become so commonplace now and it just sounds so crude.
@melinda48 i love all of the faves you listed! As for the F bomb - I’m guilty of muttering it to myself when provoked. But it’s my guilty secret; my friends and family would be surprised to hear me use it! I’m pretty discreet (Except for that time when my phone dropped from my jeans pocket into the toilet at the airport. THAT splash provoked a rather loud audible response that may have caused the woman in the next cubicle to wonder what was going on. I hid in my cubicle until she left
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I get that! What I dislike about it mostly is that so many young people use it indiscriminately. I, too, have dropped the bomb from time to time but not the wayI hear so often on the streets and even on tv. If I dropped my phone in the toilet - you would probably be able to hear me from here in Missouri!@melinda48 i love all of the faves you listed! As for the F bomb - I’m guilty of muttering it to myself when provoked. But it’s my guilty secret; my friends and family would be surprised to hear me use it! I’m pretty discreet (Except for that time when my phone dropped from my jeans pocket into the toilet at the airport. THAT splash provoked a rather loud audible response that may have caused the woman in the next cubicle to wonder what was going on. I hid in my cubicle until she left
Booker
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I hate the word panties. Ugh, *cringe*. It's so loathsome.
I love the German word backpfeifengesicht. It's a word that you didn't know you needed in your life LOL!
I love the German word backpfeifengesicht. It's a word that you didn't know you needed in your life LOL!
Zany_in_CO
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Backpfeifengesicht meaning: Someone deserving of a face slap.
"It's not quite clear where the word came from, but it was in common use in northern Germany by the 19th century and has stuck around ever since. It's actually quite visceral, describing a slap so resounding it whistles along the cheek."
