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Qoheleth.
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Lambent
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quetzalcoatl
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Chthonic.
I like the look of this word, and I like the sound of it, and I try to use it fairly regularly.
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Honest Ron Bacardi
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Originally posted by Qoheleth.:
Lambent
A hymn for you, Qoheleth!
Wayzgoose is pretty good, though finding a chance to use it is tricky. I have seen it used on the ship, though (not by me). Jejune and nugatory are handy words to keep up your sleeve when dissing other people's arguments.
OK, that's three words. Put them down for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday favourites.
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R.A.M.
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Originally posted by quetzalcoatl:
Chthonic.
I like the look of this word, and I like the sound of it, and I try to use it fairly regularly.
Autochthonous, is a favourite, and if anything easier to use.
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Sir Kevin
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Self-effacing is a word I used on the job last week and one of a handful of university-educated colleagues remarked that she had heard it rather a lot lately!
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Chorister
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Today the words are brought to you by the letter 'D'. or 'diap' to be precise. No, not diaper (which is such a weird word to an Englishman) but 'diapason' and 'diaphanous'. Redolent of pipe organs and floaty things.
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Qoheleth.
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Originally posted by Honest Ron Bacardi:
A hymn for you, Qoheleth!
Indeed. That's we choristers like it.
Dight.
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Mamacita
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Seraphicwise. Used in context: "Sing praises seraphicwise." It's a lyric in a piece my choir is singing. I assume it means "in the manner of a great angel, " but I kind of think it's not a real word.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Mamacita:
... a piece my choir is singing ...
God is gone up by Finzi?
Love it! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
[ 26. October 2013, 03:35: Message edited by: piglet ]
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L'organist
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Plangent
Best summed up by the rhythmic sound from a foghorn out at sea.
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Welease Woderwick
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Tantamount just sounds lovely, all those Ta sounds.
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Zacchaeus
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Tantamount just sounds lovely, all those Ta sounds.
Similarly I love potentate - even better in the hymn line 'potentate of time'
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NJA
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Originally posted by Niminypiminy:
eirenic -- aiming or aimed at peace.
Does it relate to Eire, i.e. Irish who's etymology is given as:
ultimately from Old Irish Eriu (accusative Eirinn, Erinn) "Erin," which is from Old Celtic *Iveriu (accusative *Iverionem, ablative *Iverione), perhaps from PIE *pi-wer- "fertile," literally "fat," from root *peie- "to be fat, swell"?
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Ariel
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No, it comes from the Greek. The girls' name "Irene" stems directly from this too.
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Sir Kevin
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Tantamount just sounds lovely, all those Ta sounds.
I learned that word at age fifteen in school: our wonderful French-Canadian English and French teacher, Mr. Gordon LeClaire taught us a new vocabulary word every day! He was my favourite teacher.
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Cara
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caravel
(and not just because it contains my Ship name!)
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Welease Woderwick
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Expunge
Another set of lovely sounds.
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Zacchaeus
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Expunge
Another set of lovely sounds.
And the do sound so final as well..
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Zacchaeus
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i have just caught an episode of 'keeping up appearances' (old uk sitcom)
it was built around the word riparian - which hyacyinth bucket rolled of hee tongue..
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Cara
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Ah yes! dear Hyacinth and her riparian entertainments!
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Kelly Alves
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I just used the word "egad." Just kind popped out when I saw a gruesome pic. Then I thought-- cool word.
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Evensong
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Jinx. I used Egad today too.
Alacrity is a beauty.
Not sure why (besides enthusiasm being a nice feeling). Perhaps the elegant arrangements of the a's and the l and the c? Just looks nicely symmetrical. Or something..... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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chive
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A long time favourite of mine has been recidivism just for the way it rolls around your mouth when you say it.
I also like the Scots word keek meaning to look which Scottish children say instead of peekaboo. Despite living in deepest darkest Englandshire I've taught my friend's wee one to say keek and his whole face lights up and he giggles when he says it.
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BessLane
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tomfoolery, because today, my local grocery store is running a special on toilet paper and Purex, the day before Halloween. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Prestidigitation - yet another nice set of sounds.
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Galilit
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"commination"
chapter 25 of the Book of Common Prayer, 1662
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Stercus Tauri
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Contumacious. Stubborn disobedience. A fine word, but I've only ever encountered it in the Presbyterian Book of Forms (Canada). It hardly ever gets as far as enlivening presbytery meetings.
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North East Quine
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I like the "k" sounds in oak-apple and cuckoo-clock.
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