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

The thread to post words that you particularly like, for no rhyme or reason, just because they roll off the tongue easily.

Alternatively, the thread for words that send a shiver down your spine; that look ugly on the page or horrible in conversation.

Words I like for no apparent reason: myriad, juxtaposition, suave, zephyr.

Words I detest for no apparent reason: tissue, bovril, cornea, grandiose.

B

i dont like theword c*nt for obvious reasons and thats a u which that fills the *

I know exactly what you mean !

Words I love are: generic, supposition, procrastination and charlatan

Words I dislike: heavenly, derivation, confinement and plump

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Actually, I do not know why you do not like it?

Explain, please.

I am interested as alot of people love the word...for obvious reasons...that I might explain later.

Nice words: Voluptuous, yes, OH, YES. Haddock.

Bad words: paradigm and anyother management BS stuff , like challenge instead of problem.

Pro-active is the embodiment of all that is evil and wrong in the modern world.
See also 'feedback', transitive verb, as in 'I'll feed that back to him/her/Satan'

i just dont like the conotations of the word

ilike that word though conotations

I love the c-word myself!

Love the words globule and recitative

I see red when I hear infra-structure (usually means that there's a line of bovine scatology (bulls**t) to follow)

"absolutely" instead of a simple "yes" irks me

I don't like the C-word either and never use it.

I do you the f-word quite often. But even that can curl the toes when used in the wrong context. Used in the right context it can add humour, defuse a situation and otherwise be acceptable. In the wrong context it is little more than an insult.

Donald

Words and phrases I like
Gerciple (coined by a grammarian), anacoluthon, magnetohydrodynamic, philoxenia, horse, grammarian. Actually, there are heaps.
Don't like sidewalk, autopsy, ignore, well I can't think of so many...

I like the c word but that's probably because I swear way too much

Words I really like are preposterous (I hope I spelt that right),
genitalia, laser and GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!

Words I don't like are admonish, sloppy, wax and carpet.

Words I like:
plop, hissop (thanks to Stephen Fry), squiggle, minimum (cos it's really easy to type!), gorgeous, surreptitious, bobble (said in a Rowan Atkinson style!), w*nker, moist

Words I hate:
synergy (more management BS), the C word, fat, b!tch, consolidation, any word that ends with 'ibility' or 'ability' (cos I always spell them wrong!)

OK, Apple, you've got me! I can't find gerciple or philoxenia in the dictionary - please put me out of my misery!

Words I like: controversy (pronounced conTROVersy, not controVERsy), geranium, somnambulist

Words I dislike: the 'C' word, can't think of any others.

Deb

On one side there is elbow, face, granite and dude

On the other there is swimming pool and xylophone

but witch is which (and if so can we build a bridge out of her)

I like the words Gropecunt Lane, a street in London which was later changed to the more euphemistic Threadneedle Street.

RF

*Points at RF*
Ummmmmm... I'm telling...


Words I like: Sandwich, sword.
Words I dislike: Duvet (but only when people pronounce it Duv-ett).

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They don't do that really?

Do they?

Please tell me you've only heard people saying that as joke, as I have.

Sorry, but no... I've actually been told off for pronouncing it properly.

Duv-ett???

Of course it should be pronounced 'Doo-VAY', just like ballet and bidet should be pronounced 'Ba-LAY' (not BA-lay) and 'Bee-DAY' (not BI-day).

And don't get me started on 'garage'.

One of my favourite words is 'murmur'. Mmmmmmm.

az

...thought i heard a splashing sound then
Serendipity.Philosophy.Panorama.

Alliteration Almost Always Awful.
Buttox.Botox.the c word. (little light humour there)