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There are so many words in the world. Have you ever come across THAT ONE weird, questionable word that was just so different it made you stop in your tracks? I know I have. Maybe it was the way the word looked, menacing. Or maybe you like the way it clinks against the roof of your tongue when you say it. Maybe it's the way it's spelled. So what's your favorite word? Or maybe you just want to share a peculiar word you came upon one day....
I myself like Rendezvous, because of the French-ness and the way it's spelled, which means meet at an agreed time and place.
I also like Vacuum, because not a lot of people know that it's spelled with two 'u's. Perhaps it's because the 'u's are sucking you in...
submitted by Madeline, age 13
(May 1, 2014 - 3:27 pm)
(May 1, 2014 - 3:27 pm)
I have one:
selcouth. (SEL-kooth) And guess what it means? Unusual, or unheard of. Huh. An unusual word that means unusual.
You don't see that every day!
: )
(May 1, 2014 - 6:28 pm)
I like it!
(May 3, 2014 - 11:22 am)
Top!
(May 1, 2014 - 6:51 pm)
i think we've all guessed that by now.
(May 7, 2014 - 2:22 pm)
Ooo! This looks like fun! I will look for a cool word...
(May 2, 2014 - 8:19 pm)
simper -- verb. To smile stupidly. I heard it at school the other day.
(May 3, 2014 - 11:21 am)
I love words that sound like how they mean like--
Insipid. I love that word, even though I never like people/things/movies/books that fit that adjective.
Forbidden. There is nothing that sounds as forbidding yet alluring as Forbidden.
(May 3, 2014 - 7:00 pm)
I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I now love the word Swag. Somehow it's just such a fitting word to describe a kind of cool, devil-may-care attitude that's kind of bad in a good way.
(May 5, 2014 - 9:07 pm)
Sesquipedalian: Possibly my favorite word ever, LOVE how its rolls off your tongue. Ses-quip-ed-al-ian. Go figure, it means "long word":)
(May 7, 2014 - 8:53 am)
Great word! If you have ever read the Mysterious Benedict Society series, you must love the pun in S.Q. Pedalian's name!
Here are a few of mine:
Odd - as in strange, it just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
Rather - I just love how in old books "rather" and "quite" are almost synonyms for "yes I would love that" or "indeed!"
Forsooth - It means indeed, or "quite so", and I always imagine that medieval knights say it all the time.
(May 7, 2014 - 9:18 pm)
Oh yes, S.Q. Pedalian. I forgot how long I laughed when I read that name. It really wasn't all that funny but I'm a nerd so
ANYWAY, WORDS.
Fresh - It just sorta rolls off the tongue. I also like it because it means new, clean, beautiful...
Raven - I actually don't know why I like this one. I just do.
Berries - I like it better plural.
Confuzzled - I don't think that's even in the dictionary but it's strange so I used it.
Harp - No idea. Reminds me of heaven, maybe?
Sir Captcha's favorite word, apparently, is NVGF. that's not a word sir.
(May 12, 2014 - 6:01 am)
Do you mean Sasquatch Pedalian?( as Kate said).
(November 24, 2014 - 9:10 am)
Just looked up pedalian. It means related to the foot.
That's funny.
(December 17, 2014 - 10:11 pm)
Colonel.
You'd think it'd sound like "Ko-lone-ell," right? Yet it's pronounced like the word "kernel," which makes absolutely no sense and that's why I like it.
(May 17, 2014 - 8:24 pm)
Military words have strange pronounciations... take lieutenant, for example. It took forever and a day for me to get used to pronouncing it "luff-ten-ant", and then the word sub-lieutenant comes up, and apparently it's pronounced, "sub-lyoo-ten-ant". Aaagh!
I like the word utterance because it sounds so neat, and it means "what someone said".
But in the US we don't pronounce it with an f sound. We say loo-tenant.
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(May 19, 2014 - 7:59 am)