Words!
Let's have a little Vocabulary Fun Time City!
There are, of course, many many completely awesome words hanging around the world, and I cannot possibly know, meet, or remember them all! It's very sad. But I thought I'd bring out a few of the fancier words that really ... strike my fancy, and share them and ask anyone (and that means everyone) to contribute any words they find particularly snazzy/interesting/useful - especially if they are longish and the kind you couldn't say without sounding like a snobby jackass (I love sounding like a snobby jackass, as many may know).
My words!
Brobdingnagian!
Okay, so I never read the entire book, WHATEVER. I did get to this part and... something about a party, and I don't remember much. And what's awesome about this word - besides having so many consecutive consonants and quite that many syllables and being slightly difficult to say at first - is that I ACTUALLY USE IT. On a semi-regular basis, even! It's full of joy.
Bioluminescent / bioluminescence
I feel like I say this every 10 minutes, but I quite literally slept through like 85% of 10th grade biology. I made sure to stay awake for the week we did genetics, because I really like Punnett squares, but anyway - I *did* get a 90 or something in that class, since I occasionally read the book and had to be awake for the first minutes of class before my head found its way to the desk, and this word is one of the things I somehow learned in that class (also the fact that learning about the octopus makes me surprisingly bored). But I've used the word a lot in poetry and I just think it's awesome like a living (o)possum.
Omphaloskepsis
Sadly, I do not use this word in my regular life. Or ever. I just think it's awesome, I'm glad it exists, and I wish I'd known it as a teenager. It was one of the first words I got when I signed up for A Word A Day a few years ago.
There are, of course, many many completely awesome words hanging around the world, and I cannot possibly know, meet, or remember them all! It's very sad. But I thought I'd bring out a few of the fancier words that really ... strike my fancy, and share them and ask anyone (and that means everyone) to contribute any words they find particularly snazzy/interesting/useful - especially if they are longish and the kind you couldn't say without sounding like a snobby jackass (I love sounding like a snobby jackass, as many may know).
My words!
Brobdingnagian!
Okay, so I never read the entire book, WHATEVER. I did get to this part and... something about a party, and I don't remember much. And what's awesome about this word - besides having so many consecutive consonants and quite that many syllables and being slightly difficult to say at first - is that I ACTUALLY USE IT. On a semi-regular basis, even! It's full of joy.
Bioluminescent / bioluminescence
I feel like I say this every 10 minutes, but I quite literally slept through like 85% of 10th grade biology. I made sure to stay awake for the week we did genetics, because I really like Punnett squares, but anyway - I *did* get a 90 or something in that class, since I occasionally read the book and had to be awake for the first minutes of class before my head found its way to the desk, and this word is one of the things I somehow learned in that class (also the fact that learning about the octopus makes me surprisingly bored). But I've used the word a lot in poetry and I just think it's awesome like a living (o)possum.
Omphaloskepsis
Sadly, I do not use this word in my regular life. Or ever. I just think it's awesome, I'm glad it exists, and I wish I'd known it as a teenager. It was one of the first words I got when I signed up for A Word A Day a few years ago.