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Posted: **Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:49 pm**

On the Crosswords application they ask you for your favorite word. I said "inexplicable," a little bit because I like the sound but mostly because I like the concept.

For words where I just like the sound, the leader is "Cabo San Lucas." It is just fun to say.

I know it's not a word but several.

So tonight I found a new word that is marvelous fun to say. Say it with me several times.

Chatterbait.

chatterbait
chatterbait
chatterbait

Please do not make me read the fishing forecast again next week.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:05 am**

Ritterskoop wrote: So tonight I found a new word that is marvelous fun to say. Say it with me several times.

Chatterbait.

Please do not make me read the fishing forecast again next week.

On the 5 a.m. Farm Report on local television, they include a fishing report. The word I hate hearing is "stinkbait." The person who does the fishing report has a heavy rural Okie accent, so every single time, it sounds like "stankbait."

Stankbait is ten times more awful than stinkbait.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:16 am**

My favorite word is informational.

For obvious reasons to some and not so obvious to others.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:49 am**

Ritterskoop wrote: So tonight I found a new word that is marvelous fun to say. Say it with me several times.

Chatterbait.

Are you referring to the trademarked fishing lure that google informs me of, or is there another meaning?

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:53 am**

Just heard on the radio this AM about a list of women's least favorite words. Common, everyday words, not the obviously obnoxious stuff you might see on our local spammer messages.

I can't recall one of the top five, but I believe the reverse order was:

sprinkle
(the forgotten word)
navel
panties
And at number one: moist

Okay, ladies, what is it about these particular words?

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:01 am**

My favorite word has always been mesmerize. Love it.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:04 am**

gsabc wrote:Just heard on the radio this AM about a list of women's least favorite words. Common, everyday words, not the obviously obnoxious stuff you might see on our local spammer messages.

I can't recall one of the top five, but I believe the reverse order was:

sprinkle
(the forgotten word)
navel
panties
And at number one: moist

Okay, ladies, what is it about these particular words?

I like to use moist for it's shock value.

Sprinkle can remind me of cleaning the toilet bowl rim and being annoyed.

I like panties.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:07 am**

serendipity

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The Three Princes of Serendip is an old Persian fairy tale about three men who were on a mission but they always found something that was irrelevant but needed in reality. They discovered things by good fortune and sagacity. Serendip is the Persian name for Sri Lanka. Later, the word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole[1].

The fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip is based upon the life of Persian King Bahram V, who ruled the Sassanid Empire (420-440). Stories of his rule are told in epic poetry of the region (Firdausi's Shahnameh 1010, Nizami's Haft Paykar 1197, Khusrau's Hasht Bihisht 1302, parts of which are based upon historical facts with embellishments derived from folklore going back hundreds of years to oral traditions in India and The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. With the exception of the well-known camel story, English translations are very hard to come by.

In the camel story, the Three Princes use trace clues to precisely identify a camel they have never seen (lame; blind in one eye; missing a tooth; carrying a pregnant maiden; bearing honey on one side and butter on the other). This result of abductive reasoning is not what is meant by serendipity (the discovery of something not sought). Because of their cleverness and sagacity, they are accused of stealing the camel and are about to be put to death by Bahram Gur. Suddenly and without anyone seeking him out, a traveler steps forward to say that he has just seen the missing camel wandering in the desert. Bahram spares the lives of the Three Princes, lavishes them with rich rewards and appoints them as advisors. These rewards are the unsought (serendipitous) results of their sagacious insights.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:42 am**

I have geographic favorite words to say:

Ouagadougou
Limpopo
Oaxaca

I'm sure there are more but those right at the top of the list.

I know I have a least favorite word to say but I can't remember what it is. It's a word that I cannot pronounce as part of a sentence. I have to stop whatever else I'm saying, say that word, and then go on. It's funny that I can't remember what it is.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:33 am**

MarleysGh0st wrote:
Ritterskoop wrote: So tonight I found a new word that is marvelous fun to say. Say it with me several times.

Chatterbait.
Are you referring to the trademarked fishing lure that google informs me of, or is there another meaning?

The patent is pending, but yeah, it's that. Except our writer used it lower-case, so maybe it's been around a while, and the fisherfolk use it more generally.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:29 pm**

Nothing like joining a thread late, but I've always been partial to:

facetious

Just because I learnt to spell it and lots of people can't pronounce it when they see it spelt.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:32 pm**

And I had an insured use "inexplicably" on his report of an accident today.

He hit a car from behind. He blames the other driver who "inexplicably" stopped in front of him to yield to oncoming traffic.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:52 pm**

I like to think about whether words are light or heavy.

"Frivolity" is so light it floats.

"Polysyllabic" would sink to the bottom of the ocean.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:36 pm**

Giggle.

Guffaw.

Pliant.

Love those words.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:40 pm**

Nothing like joining a thread late, but I've always been partial to:

facetious

Just because I learnt to spell it and lots of people can't pronounce it when they see it spelt.

It also has all the vowels in order.....

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:13 pm**

A fine observation.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:21 pm**

andrewjackson wrote:I have geographic favorite words to say:

Ouagadougou
Limpopo
Oaxaca

I'm sure there are more but those right at the top of the list.

I know I have a least favorite word to say but I can't remember what it is. It's a word that I cannot pronounce as part of a sentence. I have to stop whatever else I'm saying, say that word, and then go on. It's funny that I can't remember what it is.

Gotta completely agree with you on all three (esp. Ouagadougou). But my two personal favorites are

Juxtaposition

and

Capriciously

I'm also partial to onomatopoeia.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:37 pm**

ulysses5019 wrote:
Nothing like joining a thread late, but I've always been partial to:

facetious

Just because I learnt to spell it and lots of people can't pronounce it when they see it spelt.
It also has all the vowels in order.....

As does one other word in English. Anyone?

BTW, if you make the adverbial form, facetiously, you get the sometimes "y" also in alphabetic order.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:42 pm**

We allowed to google the answer?

Spoiler

that's the only way I could answer
if this is the word Cal wants - abstemious. But if googling isn't allowed,
we'll let someone who really knows answer first.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:54 pm**

kayrharris wrote:We allowed to google the answer?

Spoiler
that's the only way I could answer
if this is the word Cal wants - abstemious. But if googling isn't allowed,
we'll let someone who really knows answer first.

Sure.

That's just one of my favorite word-trivia questions.

Another is: Name the four words in the english language that end with the letters -dous

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:58 pm**

Well, I thought it would be harder to find than it was:

Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:03 pm**

andrewjackson wrote:I have geographic favorite words to say:

Oaxaca

You should read the articles that dude Marty Marblezzzzz posts about me and my interpreter in the BBBL....

Loco

Posted: **Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:56 am**

Ritterskoop wrote:ask you for your favorite word

I can't believe I've reached the age I have and have worked in a words profession as long as I have without even thinking about this. So I thought about it overnight and came up with:

hope
fortuitous
underpants

Posted: **Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:33 pm**

Catfish wrote:
Ritterskoop wrote:ask you for your favorite word
I can't believe I've reached the age I have and have worked in a words profession as long as I have without even thinking about this. So I thought about it overnight and came up with:

hope
fortuitous
underpants

I forgot one:

aplomb

Posted: **Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:45 pm**

I have always liked the word reiterate.

My maiden name was Reiter.

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