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Favourite word?
EndangeredSpecies Started conversation May 15, 2005
What is everyones favourite word?
I'll start:
Serendipity
ES
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Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride Posted May 15, 2005
Fanblinkingtastic not a true word but I like it.
Okay real word I would go with Serendipity if I was going to have a daughter I would name her that.
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Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride Posted May 15, 2005
Serendipity.
ser·en·dip·i·ty ( P )
(srn-dp-t)
n. pl. ser·en·dip·i·ties
The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.
An instance of making such a discovery.
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[From the characters in the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, who made such discoveries, from Persian Sarandp, Sri Lanka, from Arabic sarandb.]
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seren·dipi·tous adj.
seren·dipi·tous·ly adv.
Word History: We are indebted to the English author Horace Walpole for the word serendipity, which he coined in one of the 3,000 or more letters on which his literary reputation primarily rests. In a letter of January 28, 1754, Walpole says that “this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word.” Walpole formed the word on an old name for Sri Lanka, Serendip. He explained that this name was part of the title of “a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of....”
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Vortex Posted May 15, 2005
Kabillion, as in, There must have been a kabillion people at the mall.
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Lord Wolfden - Howl with Pride Posted May 15, 2005
Quintessential.
quin·tes·sen·tial
Of, relating to, or having the nature of a quintessence; being the most typical: “Liszt was the quintessential romantic” (Musical Heritage Review).
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Quintessential
adj : representing the perfect example of a class or quality
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AceVUK Posted May 15, 2005
Wibble.
Not a real word, I know, but the way Rowan Atkinson says it cracks me up every time!!
Ace
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted May 16, 2005
Popacatapetl
and Lake Titicaca.
Both near neighbours, high in the Andes,
and a place I would love to go to, ever since I heard these 2 <magic< words.
They are too dreamy for mere words.
they are...
SUPERwords.
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted May 16, 2005
Perricabodulation.
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