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Favorite word's
Moondancer Started conversation Sep 20, 2000
Hi,
I heard it discussed on the news this morning that The World Conference of Literature, which was being held in London, declared the word "serendipity" to be the most popular word.
I would like if people would give their favorite words.
My most favored word is oxymoron - it is such a lovely descriptive word and next is quintessential
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Walter of Colne Posted Sep 20, 2000
Hi Moondancer,
Bliss.
Gay.
Snug.
Walter (the signature, not the word).
Favorite words
Moondancer Posted Sep 20, 2000
I think I might have to ask for meanings as well
Moondancer
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Niz (soon to be gone) Posted Sep 20, 2000
Mine is PANTS. The british word for underwear. But it is also a slang for something that isn't very good.
e.g This pogo stick is pants the spring is the wrong colour.
I just like the way it is said so easily (not that I have a problem speaking)
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NexusSeven Posted Sep 20, 2000
Gibbons. (don't ask me why, it just cracks me up... 
)
Sizzling. (onomatopoeia at its best!)
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Zak T Duck Posted Sep 20, 2000
Syzygy, for a definition look in the Word of the Day: http://www.h2g2.com/WordOfTheDay
I throw the gauntlet down to find a longer word with no vowels in the English dictionary
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NexusSeven Posted Sep 20, 2000
Here you go, Croz: Rhythms.
Okay, the plural form isn't in the dictionary per se, but it *is* the longest word with no vowels in the English language...
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Zak T Duck Posted Sep 20, 2000
I admit defeat.
Still like syzygy though, it just rolls off the tongue.
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Adrian Posted Sep 20, 2000
Plynth and paradigm are two good words. Dipthrong is another.
A word which a friend of mine made up is schnangputt. It has no meaning though.
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Lear (the Unready) Posted Sep 20, 2000
melancholy
gibberish
schizoid
also, turnip (strange obsessions...)
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Colbert the Alien (patron saint of drunk Wookies) Posted Sep 21, 2000
pseudopsychological
I dont care if its not a real word, it sounds cool...
now can anyone tell me what it should mean....
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Lear (the Unready) Posted Sep 21, 2000
I suppose 'pseudopsychology' would just be a branch of pseudoscience in general. But we knew that anyway... 
It's a bit of a tautology in my opinion, as I don't think I've ever come across a psychologist who wasn't also a bit of a pseud...
Hey, there's another nice word - tautology.
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- 1: Moondancer (Sep 20, 2000)
- 2: Walter of Colne (Sep 20, 2000)
- 3: Dinsdale Piranha (Sep 20, 2000)
- 4: Cloviscat (Sep 20, 2000)
- 5: Biggy P (the artist phormerly known as phord) (Sep 20, 2000)
- 6: Moondancer (Sep 20, 2000)
- 7: Niz (soon to be gone) (Sep 20, 2000)
- 8: JK the unwise (Sep 20, 2000)
- 9: Xanatic(phenomena phreak) (Sep 20, 2000)
- 10: Cloviscat (Sep 20, 2000)
- 11: Big Joe (just joe on jupiter) (Sep 20, 2000)
- 12: NexusSeven (Sep 20, 2000)
- 13: Zak T Duck (Sep 20, 2000)
- 14: NexusSeven (Sep 20, 2000)
- 15: Zak T Duck (Sep 20, 2000)
- 16: Adrian (Sep 20, 2000)
- 17: Lear (the Unready) (Sep 20, 2000)
- 18: Colbert the Alien (patron saint of drunk Wookies) (Sep 21, 2000)
- 19: Brian of Bourne (Sep 21, 2000)
- 20: Lear (the Unready) (Sep 21, 2000)
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