General Chat

One for those in the intellectual corner! What words are there in the English language that you wish you could use more often? Could be just because you like the sound of how that word is pronounced. If you don't have any in particular then what word(s) do you tend to use the most often?

These are the ones I put on Friends reunited. chocolate, funicular, waterfall, parchment, murmur, pomegranate, bizarre, onomatopoeia, velvet, amethyst, equinox, bibliography, nocturnal, matriculate, chronological, bagatelle, coalesce, protuberance, glimpse. I particularly like coalesce but my absolute favourite is funicular. Gwynne

All right! All right! Bit early for this sort of thing - I'm only on my second cup of coffee. When (if) I wake up, I'll play. CB >|<

Narcissistic is a word I like but it is rather limiting in it's everyday use. Susan:-)

Some words I just like because the way they roll off the tongue Mellifluous (sp) Meandering and Serendipity oh and a few Scots words I love are Scunnered , bletherin', nyaff and shoogle! Christine

I would include as words that should be used more often: onomatopoeia serendipity ostentatious parsimonious legerdemain can't think of any others at the moment...

I like: finickety frock preposterous munificence I usually manage to use them everyday but I do talk to myself a lot! Gwynne, there is a funicular in Le Havre. I used to use it every day on my way back from work. Helenxx

I like:- Lethargic procrastination or Procrastinated lethargy. I don`t say it much but I do it a lot! Also Curmudgeon.

perspicatious onomatopoeia - I love that word, always reminds me of the John Masefield poem 'Cargoes'. Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores, With a cargo of diamonds, Emeralds, amethysts, Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores. Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, With a cargo of Tyne coal, Road-rails, pig-lead, Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays. Sue xx

OK, here goes - Pre-Raphaelite, transmogrify, loquacious, caduceus, somnambulism, fiduciary, captious, bedizened, fugue, perihelion, microcosm, efficacious, decadent, ormolu, sepulchre, maulstick, tractable, caprification, cervine, orrery, pyracanth, aspectarian, cardamom, Philistine, sleuth, peripatetic, yaffle, rebelliousness, quincunx, lugubrious, internecine, mysterious, collaboration, enchanted, oscillate, rhabdomancy, lithography, prehensile, syllogism, lustre, interpolation, traipse, transcendental, phlebotomise, sesquiquadrate, phonendoscope, superheterodyne, lucifuguous, gazebo, Orientalism, troubadour, symmetry, collage, syzygy, ukelele, zoetrope, organza, sabbatical, caerulean, narf (as in 'Narf cold today, innit?) CB >|< P S Sue, that poem! The first one I ever learnt in primary school, and still one of my favourites. Just trips off the tongue, doesn't it?

Thank you Sue at Langley Vale - used to love that one at school - the words would just trip off the tongue - I was trying to remember it only last week, and could only think of Dirty British Coaster, and cheap tin trays. I have now written it down.

You'd love it where I live then Lee Valley - it is the Dacorum Borough Council ...

When I was living in Herts whilst doing my degree, I used to like that word, 'verulamium', as you entered St. Albans.

*Waves at Andy* My favourite words at the moment are: Omnipotent Superfluous (sp?) Juxtaposition love becx

*waves back at Bec* wonder how much this word pops up in conversation: triskaidekaphobia - fear of the number 13

Hemel, Berkhamsted area Dee.

Being born on the 13th and having once lived at a house numbered 13, it's a good thing I'm not triskaidekaphobic! CB >|<

My favourite words tend to be contractions like CB's narf (think that's the right word!). If you like is now 'flike' Pauline is now Pleen deodarant is jorant etc Real word I like is salubrious

Sally, Love the roundabout at Hemel! Hours of endless amusement. CB >|<

Rammifications is the one that sticks in my mind.