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[kalquessa]

Audience participation time!

I know we've done this before, but it's a good one, so here it is again:

Give me some words and/or phrases that you think should be in more common use for whatever reason.

Mine - aplomb, harridan, skulduggery (heh), and "very like a whale"

In other news: two weeks off from fencing + lots of no-parry drills = ow

Comments

[not_a_monk]

Rutabega... Arugala.. can't think of any other vegetables... hmm...

INCONCIEVABLE!

[kalquessa]

I love to say "arugula"! This word is funny just by virtue of how fun it is to fit your tongue around!

[girlwslingshot]

INWINCIBLE!

[sisiphus]

milk
sibilant
ambulatory
island of cows

[girlwslingshot]

That is one of the greatest icons I've ever seen.

[sisiphus]

He's booping his nose!

[girlwslingshot]

Where did you find such a gem?

[jd3000]

Keister, canon, betwixt, Zounds!, pulchritude (I actually spelled this *right* when I saw Akeela and the Bee :-D), reciprocity, annunciate, rambunctious, sonorous.

[kalquessa]

pulchritude

*loves*

[jelly_doughnut]

Scallywag, pompous, asinine, insipid, vulcanize and tardis.

"quoth" is good too...

[kalquessa]

I love using "quoth" but it's difficult to pull off without sounding pompous and asinine...heh.

"Insipid" doesn't get nearly enough use these days.

[detroitfather]

These are politically incorrect, of course, but I've always been fond of negress and jewess.

Also:

vouchsafe

y'all's

pilfer, filch

Christendom

[jd3000]

Vouchsafe is teh awesome.

-JD

[dessieoctavia]

Actually, when I converted to Judaism, my rabbi began the meeting of the beit din by saying, "Moselle wishes to become a Jewess." ^-^ But I admit, I've never seen anyone other than rabbis use the word since 1950.

[jd3000]

Well, there was that Saturday Night Live skit in the 70s about "Jewess Jeans"...

-JD