What's your favourite word?

[newt]

Plop

Squelch

Onomatopoeia

Alan

Is that the spoken word sounds like the noise it makes?

 

[Woody Alan]

Buzz, Baa etc yep that's the one, that's why we like those words.

Alan

 

[Smudger]

The best explanation of onomatopoeia comes from a children's book called Mary Plain; it's the sound made by dropping a brick six feet into four feet of water - spidumfla. Perfect.

 

[wizer]

pants has always been a favourite of mine (not used in the modern way to say something is rubbish)

I'm ashamed to say that I find the way people say swear words fascinating. Especially the F word. It can sound so different all over the world.

Can't really think of any words I don't like.

My vocabulary is probably not as developed as most, but I do like learning new words and love it when I get a chance to use them. It annoys me when certain people aren't willing to widen their vocabulary. Especially when they have trouble articulating what they want to say.

 

[Tom K]

Reading an article lately about the nations favourite words got me thinking........so what's yours?

My favourites - Catafalque and surreptitious.

Most disliked - Carcass and gusset.

No psychoanalysis please and no words like "work" etc :wink:

Thanks

Mark

Ooh yes Catafalque as in "Lying in state, on that catafalque? In those robes. It didn't half give me the..........
Wos wrong wiv Gusset?

 

[kenf]

Gobsmacked offends me

I like extrapalation

Again frightens me

 

[newt]

Why do folk use the words Early Doors and Fess Up is it to show they a cool or what, I assume Fess Up is slang for Confess.

 

[bugbear]

I also like "qat" as this has caused many an argument while playing scrabble. I had to buy my father a new dictionary once just to prove it existed.

I thought there was only one "approved" dictionary for scrabble?

BugBear

 

[dicktimber]

Bollocks..
followed by

Tooshortshit

followed by

largedouble.

 

[johnjin]

My favourite is Balagan.
This is Hebrew for a mess. It just seems to describe what it says.

John

 

[Digit]

Yiddish actually. I prefer Schmutter, various but usually 'rubbish!'.

Roy.

 

[Digit]

Yiddish actually. I prefer Schmutter, various but usually 'rubbish!'.

Roy.

 

[barkwindjammer]

Heehoo, cos thats why !

 

[wizer]

I like Schmutter too, Roy.

 

[matt]

Toggle

Went :evil: (When used in place of "I said", or "I described", etc.)

 

[Smudger]

Condescending.

 

[Smudger]

I like Schmutter too, Roy.

How about schmaltz?

 

[Digit]

Chicken fat?

Roy.

 

[Smudger]

Yup.

 

[Smudger]

Or goose. On roast potatoes.

In which case it's another favourite word - yumm.