What is your favourite word?

[Lisa Maree]

So yeah, what's your favourite word.  Mine is epitome - the ultimate, the embodiment.

[purelife]

"That's HOT!"  

oops, didn't Paris Hilton try to brand that phrase. :P  Ah well, it's my steal.

[moon child]

giggles

[Good Times]

OM
ASATOMA SADGAMAYA
TAMASOMA JYOTHIRGAMAYA
MRITHYORMA AMRUTANGAMAYA
OM SHANTI, SHANTI, SHANTI

You say it as one word.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/frech/c035.gif" border=0]

[primefactor]

 I have a poet friend who likes to ask people for 5 of their favorite words, then try to write a poem using them. It always makes something pretty neat.

I love the feel of certain words in my mouth the way I love the texture of certain foods. When I was a teenager, I loved the words maelstrom, whimsy, and vector.

Right now I really dig the word chrome. I don't choose them because of what they mean, just how they feel in the mouth.

I was so fond of the sound of the word lurid in my 20s that I legally changed my last name to it for about 18 months. I was kinda goofy.

[P.C.]

Montelimar, is one of my favourites......especially how Deborah Kerr  used to say it.  (I think it was Deborah Kerr) It never sounds as good when I say it.

[Good Times]

primefactor wrote:

I was so fond of the sound of the word [SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]lurid [/SPAN]in my 20s that I legally changed my last name to it for about 18 months. I was kinda goofy.

[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/frech/h020.gif" border=0]

 

Definitions of lurid on the Web:

[UL type=disc][FONT size=-1][LI]horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life" [LI]glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident" [LI]shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames" [LI]ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"
[A href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=0&oi=define&q=http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn%3Fs%3Dlurid"][FONT color=#008000]wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn[/FONT][/A][/FONT][/LI][/UL]

[primefactor]

Good Times wrote:
[span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"]Definitions of [/span][b style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"]lurid[/b][span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"] on the Web[/span][br style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"]
I know, I know! I was as contrived in my artless "eccentricity" as only a 24-year-old can be.

I'm just lucky it wasn't even sillier. It would have been epiphany or palindrome or zephyr, for crying out loud! Ay yi yi...

[chica]

My favourite word is insatiable ...  as in, insatiable appetite, insatiable desire.... I just love saying it.  A damn sexy word, imho.

[gt]

do you have an insatiable appetite for anything else, sexy chica?

[academe]

perpetual...as in perpetual life...perpetual happiness...perpetual satisfaction...

[former s.consumer]

lucid

pragmatic

resonate

self deprecating  

[kitten]

I like mesmerizing.  It has a lovely buzz to it.

[P.C.]

Oooooo, kitten, that's a good  one....I like that too.  

[Sportsdude]

Whats your favourite word?[/DIV]hmm.[/DIV]I dunno[/DIV]I don't have one really.