h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm quite fond of 'aghast' and 'egad' but don't really get the oppertunity to use them.


Geggs

Oh I was gonna start a thread like this.

I like the word 'anglepoise' - like the lamps. Such a nice sound to it

Liam.

Bedraggled - a great word and have just used it in another thread, but don;t get to use it nearly enough.

perchance - just has a great sound to it. Went through a phase in my teens when everything was 'perchance this' or 'perchance that' now I hardly ever use it, but still like it.

Gazump - I know, a new word, but it still sounds great

I'll no doubt think of more soon!

Just changed the title to what I meant it to be.

A rather like 'xanthippe' as well, which, according to my dictionary, is defined as 'a nagging, pevish or iritable woman'.

That's the dictionary definition, I hasten to add.

Oo, 'hasten' that's nice too.


Geggs

zyzygy and sesquepedalianism

Thrice, yonder and discombobulation never get their fair share of usage.

And antidisestablishmentarianism has been used to death!

I think that should be syzygy, not zyzygy!

I like 'yclept' myself.

zyzygy/syzygy is one of those words with debated spellings.

I was reading one of Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontier books at the start of the year. At one point he described a character as being 'totally discombobulated', and I was very happy to see the word in print.


Geggs

Brilliant! It's nice to see discombobulated is getting a good mention. It sounds like a Star Trek sort of word, something that would happen when the engines go crazy. The first time I came across the word was when someone I used to know wrote about a windy river discombobulating. I'll have to put it in more posts!

Just found out that Mr Burns used "thrice" in the episode where he sets up a baseball team. Only "yonder" to go now!

Frankly I think you're all spouting gobbledegook



B

filibuster

spelunking

Mmmm...

Mastication

...but really only for the obvious reasons.

B

Though it's not related but sounds like it should be: Onenism.

Liam.

verisimilitude

But they don't need to be complicated words. I quite like - o'clock -but don't often hear used it these days.


Geggs

Splendid

Organaleptical

perricabobulation

Tad just a n ice word and anyfing else I can't spel mastication is nice, I'll regrete agreeing to that being the case. conformational liquification and, of course, "thank you", something I'd like to use more if I was ever given a chance to be gratful for getting given what I should have already been given by peps at Uni Oh And any other word that I've heard and gone "oh, I must remember that word and use it", and then entirely forgotten

If we're playing that game:

mensuration

I think more people should be called Eurydice. It's a name from Greek myth, but I can't remember any more than that.

Its slight purile but I like the word plop

(so much so that one new years eve it got etched into the snow in 50 foot letters in sainsbries carpark)

Its a good word and a good sound and it certainly doesn't get used enough.