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ghost
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A guy named Ted McCagg put together a little contest to determine the "best word ever". I'll spoiler the winner, but you can see the brackets and the final four here. It is set up similar to an NCAA basketball tournament. The final four: The Winnah: My personal favorites out of the "list". Anyone got any other favorites not on the list? I like addle. |
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Hornswoggle is pretty good. Hasenpfeffer is another good one.
My vote for cruelest word is lisp.
We use an 8 character password for the wireless here, not worried about security, just to collect numbers on unique users. So I get to come up with a word every month. Here's some recent ones: jarosite, inchoate, hypogene, fumarole, endozoic, diaspora, cicatrix, befuddle, amygdala, ziggurat.
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« Last Edit: September 14, 2012, 06:58:53 AM by Sky »
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ghost
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Cruelest word? That's odd.
I like amygdala. That's a good one.
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Paelos
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Rigmarole is a personal favorite of mine.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Cruelest word? That's odd.
The people with it can't say it. |
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Nebu
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I'm disappointed that crotchpheasant didn't make the list. It's such a lovely word.
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Paelos
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Signe
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Aww... You're cute like one, too.
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ghost
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We need to get Haemish in on this. |
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Nerf
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The best word ever is cunt, I don't even see how there can possibly be a discussion on this.
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apocrypha
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My vote for cruelest word is lisp.
Dyslexia is a pretty cruel one too. Schadenfreude is one of my favourites. Even though it's not an English word it's used commonly enough by English-speakers. I also like delectable. |
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cmlancas
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Termagant is a favorite.
Also, catharsis.
And, someone used feckless in a post the other day, so it's on the brain.
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schild
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Been watching Fringe. In Season 3, Walter implies that Bolivia (Fake Olivia) was using her allure to further her vagenda. As in a vagina-driven agenda. Pretty much the best word I've ever heard.
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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How did you make it that long without hearing the word vagenda? I was using that in jr high school, which was before hitler.
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ghost
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I'd never heard it before just now, and I'm pretty old too.
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K9
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Syzygy, meotynym, nadir, petrichor, didactic, elfin, quisling, hubris, ucalegon, epicaricacy,, exegesis, execrate, otiose, extirpation, feuilleton, jeremiad and oleaginous are all words I enjoy.
I do also like the german word kummerspeck, which apparently literally translates as 'grief bacon' and is a word for the excess weight someone gains due to overeating while sad.
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« Last Edit: September 14, 2012, 09:56:08 AM by K9 »
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I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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ghost
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I'm totally using the term "grief bacon" now. That's awesome.
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schild
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How did you make it that long without hearing the word vagenda? I was using that in jr high school, which was before hitler.
I have ignorance of the language of the hill people. |
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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How did you make it that long without hearing the word vagenda? I was using that in jr high school, which was before hitler.
I have ignorance of the language of the hill people. The Hobbits? |
Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Those are the underhill people.
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Those are the underhill people.
Were there not Overhills as well?  |
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I can't promise anything other than trauma and tragedy. -- schild
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Bampot.
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I'm infatuated by the word sallow. I don't know why.
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ghost
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As far as "regular" words go, moist is pretty decent.
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IainC
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Jumentous is a great word because it sounds like a positive thing to say about someone until they look it up. "That was certainly a very jumentous pint landlord!" |
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Count Nerfedalot
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aplomb is pretty good.
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ghost
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Jumentous is a great word because it sounds like a positive thing to say about someone until they look it up. "That was certainly a very jumentous pint landlord!" This may have won the thread. |
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Trippy
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How did fuck lose? That word has so many different meaning depending on the way it's used or how you say it.
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ghost
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I think it was included as a novelty. It was a very jumentous occasion for it to even be included, considering it hasn't been a real word for that long.
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CmdrSlack
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I've always been a fan of vitiate. I over-use vitiate, actually.
From the world of law, gravamen is pretty nifty. It's much more fun to think that it refers to a group of people. "Holy shit, here come the Gravamen!"
I also like adumbrate.
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Signe
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Many of you seem to be babbling incoherently. And the word "moist" makes everyone in my family giggle. It's like the dirtiest word ever.
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schild
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There's such a vast sea of difference between "obscure words only an arrogant twatty mouth would use" and the "best word ever."
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Signe
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Twatty mouth is a pretty good best word(s) ever.
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