Your Favourite Word

[JuniperWoolf]

I like supercilious too. I like how it has "silly" right in the middle of it.

[Sancho]

I heard an interesting story about how, over the years, the word "silly" has changed meaning. I think I picked this up from one of those Teaching Company courses about the history of the English language. Anyway, back in the Middle Ages "silly" meant something akin to "pious;" which is to say, someone who was silly was close to god, or had been touched by god. Well, as time went by the word’s meaning morphed from describing someone who was touched by the hand of god to describing someone who just touched, you know: toys in the attic, the sort of word you would apply to the village idiot. Now I think of "silly" as a jolly word or a happy-go-lucky word, an antonym to "serious." It makes me think of a bunch of midgets in clown suits all piling out of a VW Microbus at the circus and running around in circles with their hair on fire and doing funny stuff.

[qimissung]

I hadn't thought of the "silly" aspect of supercilious; thanks for pointing that out, Juniper. Gives a little added frisson of enjoyment to the word.


And there's another on that's fun to say: frisson. Apparantly I've been saying it wrong all these years.


And I did not know that about the meaning of the word silly, although I am familiar with the concept of the "holy fool" at least in literature. Think of Peter Sellers' character in "Being There" or the main character in "My Idiot Brother," and the Trix rabbit. They were silly, too, or at least that's what people thought.

Bombastic-it kind of grows on you. Say it several times. It sounds like a particularly reppellant insect.

[Henry Please]

Vinegar

[qimissung]

Vim and vinegar!

Wouldn't it be funny to hear a general in full dress uniform, one of those colorful British ones, sword in hand, arm raised, shouting "V-i-n-e-g-a-a-a-r!" as he charged into battle?

Remember the Vinegar!

[Paulclem]

Thrice - rolls nicely off the tongue and rhymes conveniantly with twice.

[MarkBastable]

Thrice - rolls nicely off the tongue and rhymes conveniantly with twice.

The Adverbial Genitive Poem (Counting the Counting of Sheep)

Once, twice, thrice,
Force, fits, seize,
Severance, ace, nonce,
Tinsel, elvis, twirls.

[billl]

Tinkerbell, Pinkerton, nincompoop

[Sancho]

Vim and vinegar!

Wouldn't it be funny to hear a general in full dress uniform, one of those colorful British ones, sword in hand, arm raised, shouting "V-i-n-e-g-a-a-a-r!" as he charged into battle?

Remember the Vinegar!

…or perhaps American Four Star General Joseph Stilwell – affectionately known by his compatriots as “Vinegar Joe.”

General Stilwell is best known for serving in the China-Burma-India theater of WWII. He evidently had a vinegary personality (an epidemic amongst general officers in Sancho’s opinion).

[MarkBastable]

…or perhaps American Four Star General Joseph Stilwell – affectionately known by his compatriots as “Vinegar Joe.”



...whose name was adopted by this bunch of English blues-soul (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3zXXKqn1Qc&feature=related)types, led by Robert Palmer, who would later move to the US and become a central figure in the scene, as well as being the lynchpin of just about the most-aired promo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE) on MTV.

Admittedly, none of that is particularly germane to the thread.

[Paulclem]

...whose name was adopted by this bunch of English blues-soul (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3zXXKqn1Qc&feature=related)types, led by Robert Palmer, who would later move to the US and become a central figure in the scene, as well as being the lynchpin of just about the most-aired promo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE) on MTV.

Admittedly, none of that is particularly germane to the thread.

Addicted to Love takes me back to pubs and clubs I used to haunt in the 80s. There was a rumour at the time that one of the models they used for the vid was a bloke - which resulted in some speculaltion at the time. Not that it mattered either way -to my friends and I - they were all unattainable whether male female or both.

Which brings me nicely to the word "effervescent", which is what pop is.

(I should have been one of those creative TV link thinkers).

[cacian]

Thrice - rolls nicely off the tongue and rhymes conveniantly with twice.

Hey...I have got THRICE in my signature:D

[cacian]

Favourite word.....humm...hard choice..let's see

excalibur is one.

[tonywalt]

Cathartic

[Darcy88]

Seraph.

[Sancho]

...whose name was adopted by this bunch of English blues-soul (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3zXXKqn1Qc&feature=related)types, led by Robert Palmer, who would later move to the US and become a central figure in the scene, as well as being the lynchpin of just about the most-aired promo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE) on MTV.

Admittedly, none of that is particularly germane to the thread.

Funny, I was just thinking of that very thing the other day. Well okay, maybe not that exact same thing, but something pretty close: What was it about that generation of British Rockers that made them so good at playing the blues?

I mean, the basic 12-bar blues structure is simple. First, pick a key, any key, and then the chord progression goes like this:
1111
4411
5511

But playing the blues convincingly is difficult. “To play the blues, you hasta to have the blues.”

There must’ve been something in the collective experience of those guys – Plant, Palmer, Page, Richards, Clapton, (just to name a few) – that tuned them in to that scene.

A guitar-friend of mine was trying to explain it to me a few years ago: “Ya gots to play it way back on the back of the beat, which is an unnatural act for white-folk.”

Anyway, back to favorite words. I like some of the less-common words that sound like a more-common words, especially through context:

Diffidence, or Discomfiture

The other day I was driving Miss Sancho. We were just driving around in our car, looking at stuff. La Señora said to me, “You have an inane sense of direction. Don’t’cha Sanch’.”

I said to her, “Yup. And thank you, sweetheart.”

She just smiled.

[Paulclem]

Haha.

We were talking about maloprops today. One of my colleagues was on training once when one of the Tutors described a learner who kept falling asleep. The trainer said, "You'll need to ask them about it; they may have necrophilia."

My colleague's mouth dropped open as she stifled a guffaw, but then she noticed that no-one else had batted an eyelid. That must be hell - no-one to share with.

She thought it was perhaps that the trainer was a vicar's wife, but you'd think a vicar and his wife would be alert to such things due to living near a graveyard.

[Paulclem]

I learnt a new word today:

organogram.

We had great fun in the office trying to guess what it meant. Suggestions ranged from an organ weighing machine - (just pop your organ onto there for me) - to cereal, a machine that induces a certain physiological effect, a kind of anatomical kissogram.

Such fun. I really do like corporate speak. Well, you've got to have something to take the p*** out of.

If you'd like to know how to say this, or any other English word, try this website. Just type in the word and submit. It even says balderdash.

http://www.howjsay.com/

... and knackers...

I'm sorry I'm being puerile. Like the word though... puerile.

[B. Laumness]

I learnt a new word today:

organogram.

We had great fun in the office trying to guess what it meant. Suggestions ranged from an organ weighing machine - (just pop your organ onto there for me) - to cereal, a machine that induces a certain physiological effect, a kind of anatomical kissogram.

Such fun. I really do like corporate speak. Well, you've got to have something to take the p*** out of.


Yes, their jargon is often hilarious, involuntarily hilarious.

[Sancho]

Hey, let’s do some favorite borrowings:

It all started in 757 - things got Ugly when the Vikings got Angry and gave us all those Eggs. But by 1066 we could sit in a Saloon with the French drinking Cognac and Champagne, and enjoying the Cuisine. Meanwhile over in Germany the Poodles were eating Noodles with Wiener dogs, but the Schnauzers were eating Schnitzel, while the Yiddish within thought Frankfurters were for Schmucks so they stuck with Kosher Pastrami which went well with their Bagels and Lox. On down in Arabia we sat with the Sheikh on a Sofa in his Caravan wearing our Shawls, doing Algebra, and smoking Hashish. But when Mohamed’s men went to the Iberian Peninsula, they met Marijuana-smoking Desperados in the Canyons playing Guitars, and eating Tacos and Enchiladas with the Coyotes. Over in Italy, the ringing guitars gave way to the sweet Soprano of the Violin, the rich Alto of the Viola, and the sultry Tenor of the Cello at the Opera. Across the Atlantic with the Native Americans we swung in our Hammocks smoking Tobacco and eating Chocolate and Potatoes, and floated in our Canoes while watching Raccoons, Chipmunks, and Moose on the shore. Out in the middle of the Pacific, Big Chief Wampum became the Big Kahuna on the Big Island of Hawaii. And then the rest of the way across the ocean to Japan, we drank Sake with Geishas in Kimonos and sang Karaoke.

Okay, I’ll stop there, but that was fun, and even though I only scratched the surface, I can’t help but to notice that when peoples meet, they like to eat, drink, and be merry.

[country doctor]

here's one for the general chatters to ponder...

CONTEMPLATE...

and of course, this one...

ROAR!

[Paulclem]

Hey, let’s do some favorite borrowings:

It all started in 757 - things got Ugly when the Vikings got Angry and gave us all those Eggs. But by 1066 we could sit in a Saloon with the French drinking Cognac and Champagne, and enjoying the Cuisine. Meanwhile over in Germany the Poodles were eating Noodles with Wiener dogs, but the Schnauzers were eating Schnitzel, while the Yiddish within thought Frankfurters were for Schmucks so they stuck with Kosher Pastrami which went well with their Bagels and Lox. On down in Arabia we sat with the Sheikh on a Sofa in his Caravan wearing our Shawls, doing Algebra, and smoking Hashish. But when Mohamed’s men went to the Iberian Peninsula, they met Marijuana-smoking Desperados in the Canyons playing Guitars, and eating Tacos and Enchiladas with the Coyotes. Over in Italy, the ringing guitars gave way to the sweet Soprano of the Violin, the rich Alto of the Viola, and the sultry Tenor of the Cello at the Opera. Across the Atlantic with the Native Americans we swung in our Hammocks smoking Tobacco and eating Chocolate and Potatoes, and floated in our Canoes while watching Raccoons, Chipmunks, and Moose on the shore. Out in the middle of the Pacific, Big Chief Wampum became the Big Kahuna on the Big Island of Hawaii. And then the rest of the way across the ocean to Japan, we drank Sake with Geishas in Kimonos and sang Karaoke.

Okay, I’ll stop there, but that was fun, and even though I only scratched the surface, I can’t help but to notice that when peoples meet, they like to eat, drink, and be merry.

Good stuff. Bill Bryson did a good book about words that I enjoyed.

[MarkBastable]

If I haven't said so before, I think the most satisfyingly musical word in the language is Schenectady.

[Sancho]

Good stuff. Bill Bryson did a good book about words that I enjoyed.

Howdy Paul,

I read Bryson’s book, The Mother Tongue, English and how it got that way, a few years ago. It whetted my appetite for linguistics.

If you liked that one, try John McWhorter’s, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, the untold history of English
Here’s an excerpt were McWhorter describes English as a Germanic language, but with quirks:


“English’s Germanic relatives are like assorted varieties of deer – antelopes, springboks, kudu and so on – antlered, fleet-footed, big-brown-eyed variations on a theme. English is some dolphin swooping around underwater, all but hairless, echolocating and holding its breath. Dolphins are mammals like deer: they give birth to live young and are warm-blooded. But clearly the dolphin has strayed from the basic mammalian game plan to an extent than no deer has.”

Also, I noticed our borrowings go back before 757: History, Comedy, Tragedy, and , Catastrophe come from Greek.

[Pensive]

Euology and levity lately.

[Paulclem]

Howdy Paul,

I read Bryson’s book, The Mother Tongue, English and how it got that way, a few years ago. It whetted my appetite for linguistics.

If you liked that one, try John McWhorter’s, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, the untold history of English
Here’s an excerpt were McWhorter describes English as a Germanic language, but with quirks:



Also, I noticed our borrowings go back before 757: History, Comedy, Tragedy, and , Catastrophe come from Greek.

Cheers Sancho. I got a taste fot linguistics on a course I went on a few years ago. I liked Melvyn Bragg's A History of English. Very informative.

[Taliesin]

I seem to have taken a liking to "a propos"

[Paulclem]

Do you get crazes on words and say them all the time for a short while? I had a craze on flatnose for a while - as part of an amusing description of someone, (which I won't repeat her), that my brother used.

In our office we had a short space of saying organogram for a while. (Referred to above).

[qimissung]

re all of the above:

I love the word schenectedy- and a propos.

And Eulogy and levity latelysounds like a three word poem, Pensive.

I have Bryson's book, although I haven't read it yet, but I will have to check out the one by McWhorter. I have a book on linguistics, a very general one that just kind of lays out how it's developed over the years and the various schools of thought. I did enjoy it. I probably wouldn't want to take a class in it, but I like learning bits and pieces of it here and there.

I'm glad to see that supercalifragilistiexpialidocious is still the fifth longest word in the English langueage. We sure had a lot of fun saying that in the third grade.


Hey, let’s do some favorite borrowings:

It all started in 757 - things got Ugly when the Vikings got Angry and gave us all those Eggs. But by 1066 we could sit in a Saloon with the French drinking Cognac and Champagne, and enjoying the Cuisine. Meanwhile over in Germany the Poodles were eating Noodles with Wiener dogs, but the Schnauzers were eating Schnitzel, while the Yiddish within thought Frankfurters were for Schmucks so they stuck with Kosher Pastrami which went well with their Bagels and Lox. On down in Arabia we sat with the Sheikh on a Sofa in his Caravan wearing our Shawls, doing Algebra, and smoking Hashish. But when Mohamed’s men went to the Iberian Peninsula, they met Marijuana-smoking Desperados in the Canyons playing Guitars, and eating Tacos and Enchiladas with the Coyotes. Over in Italy, the ringing guitars gave way to the sweet Soprano of the Violin, the rich Alto of the Viola, and the sultry Tenor of the Cello at the Opera. Across the Atlantic with the Native Americans we swung in our Hammocks smoking Tobacco and eating Chocolate and Potatoes, and floated in our Canoes while watching Raccoons, Chipmunks, and Moose on the shore. Out in the middle of the Pacific, Big Chief Wampum became the Big Kahuna on the Big Island of Hawaii. And then the rest of the way across the ocean to Japan, we drank Sake with Geishas in Kimonos and sang Karaoke.

Okay, I’ll stop there, but that was fun, and even though I only scratched the surface, I can’t help but to notice that when peoples meet, they like to eat, drink, and be merry.

:lol: I think you must have kissed the blarney stone as a babe, Sancho!

[Sancho]

:lol: I think you must have kissed the blarney stone as a babe, Sancho!


Ha! Well, one whole wing of my family did come from that island - they were mostly chased over here by the potato blight - and if their descendants are any indication, they were a gabby bunch. So, who knows? I'll tell you what though, we may be talkers, but we sure missed out on the luck-of-the-Irish gene.

Which brings me to my next favorite word:

Bamboozle

Just last week, El Sancho was the hapless victim of Bamboozlement when he took the 49ers at 3-to-1 and even gave a 4-point spread. I figured it was money in the bank. What kind of imbecile would take such a foolish bet from me? Clearly the Giants ran a squad of sissies who didn't deserve to share the field with the Niners. Am I right?

Well, in the melee that ensued, a vicious kerfuffle, a savage hubbub, a mindless brouhaha...

Come to think of it, I like kerfuffle, hubbub, and brouhaha too, and I'm warming up to hornswoggle.

[Jack of Hearts]

... Pinkerton...

Great word and amazing album.










J

[billl]

Great word and amazing album.










J

It's about the coolest nickname an older '70s dude could have--which is how I came to know of it.

Pinkerton said blah blah blah...

[qimissung]

Ha! Well, one whole wing of my family did come from that island - they were mostly chased over here by the potato blight - and if their descendants are any indication, they were a gabby bunch. So, who knows? I'll tell you what though, we may be talkers, but we sure missed out on the luck-of-the-Irish gene.

Which brings me to my next favorite word:

Bamboozle

Just last week, El Sancho was the hapless victim of Bamboozlement when he took the 49ers at 3-to-1 and even gave a 4-point spread. I figured it was money in the bank. What kind of imbecile would take such a foolish bet from me? Clearly the Giants ran a squad of sissies who didn't deserve to share the field with the Niners. Am I right?

Well, in the melee that ensued, a vicious kerfuffle, a savage hubbub, a mindless brouhaha...

Come to think of it, I like kerfuffle, hubbub, and brouhaha too, and I'm warming up to hornswoggle.


Sounds like quite a donnybrook!


What's a pinkerton? Is it a private detective? Can I be one, too?

[Basil]

Which brings me to my next favorite word:

Bamboozle



Oh yeah? Well, bamboozle was my favorite word way back in 2004 (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showpost.php?p=44523&postcount=6). :prrr:

[prendrelemick]

The best sound the English language can offer is perspicuity spoken in an East Lancashire accent.


In fact accents have an important role to play here. For example, Corn dog is very dull and ordinary, but Cawn Dawg is suddenly poetical

[JuniperWoolf]

Oh yeah? Well, bamboozle was my favorite word way back in 2004 (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showpost.php?p=44523&postcount=6). :prrr:

It's true, Basil had bamboozle when it was underground.

[Sancho]

Oh yeah? Well, bamboozle was my favorite word way back in 2004 (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showpost.php?p=44523&postcount=6). :prrr:


It's true, Basil had bamboozle when it was underground.

Basil, my old friend, I’m flummoxed by your flummery; I’m bewildered by your bafflement; I’m muddled and jumbled by your mumbo jumbo.

Favorite words are like the air and the clouds (and the land, according the certain American Indians) – they are owned by everybody and nobody.

By the way, have you escaped the ATL? Please, somebody, get me out of this place! I cain’t take it no mo!

[Jack of Hearts]

The best sound the English language can offer is perspicuity spoken in an East Lancashire accent.


In fact accents have an important role to play here. For example, Corn dog is very dull and ordinary, but Cawn Dawg is suddenly poetical

How many accents you got over there? This reader also suspects the two of us would not pronounce 'corn dog' the same way...









J

[Paulclem]

How many accents you got over there? This reader also suspects the two of us would not pronounce 'corn dog' the same way...

J

I'll have to think about that Jack, but if you're ever over Mick's way, down the pub called The Slaughtered Lamb, then they'll talk something like this. (It's not completely accurate - Brian Glover who tells the joke came from Barnsley, which is further to the South of Halifax and has a thicker accent.) Both Mick and I will sound a bit like it though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07FdVcspOfQ

[Jack of Hearts]

Some phrases, when the guy's voice is getting tense, are just incomprehensible.

Anyways, it's on the itinerary.







J

[JuniperWoolf]

How many accents you got over there? This reader also suspects the two of us would not pronounce 'corn dog' the same way...


We pronounce it "corn dag."

[tonywalt]

Smithereens, as in "smash to smithereens"

[BookBeauty]

Well, favourite words come and go, and are fleeting.

I've been using the following word a lot lately...

Negligible.

Say it enough, and it becomes nonsense. I used, 'negligent' by accident the other day...

[Jack of Hearts]

Well, favourite words come and go, and are fleeting.

I've been using the following word a lot lately...

Negligible.

Say it enough, and it becomes nonsense. I used, 'negligent' by accident the other day...

Agreed. There's nothing quite like an accidental négligée.






J

[Paulclem]

Some phrases, when the guy's voice is getting tense, are just incomprehensible.

Anyways, it's on the itinerary.
J

Aye. If you pop over to see Mick and I, then in order for the conversation to remain coherent, you'll need to make sure you don't wind us up. Especially in the The Slaughtered Lamb... Mick's local.

:biggrinjester:

[Jack of Hearts]

Haha, maybe. But meeting two dudes with incomprehensible accents off of the internet seems like online dating gone wrong. You never can tell with the photos... she was a 10 at 2 and 2 dudes at 10.

Kidding aside, will be in England sometime within the next 10 months, so if you could tell everyone to practice their American accents...





J

[Catamite]

Either vainglorious or coprophagus, it is goal to use either of these causally in conversation.
Does anyone use words like these in conversation just for kicks?

[Paulclem]

Haha, maybe. But meeting two dudes with incomprehensible accents off of the internet seems like online dating gone wrong. You never can tell with the photos... she was a 10 at 2 and 2 dudes at 10.

Kidding aside, will be in England sometime within the next 10 months, so if you could tell everyone to practice their American accents...

J

Unfortunately there are some fairly incomprehensible accents in the UK. Glasgow - Scotland - is notorious for the difficulty of their accent. Not only do they pronounce everything differently, but they also have their own words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yeqSgNxiE

This is a populr series,though I'm sure there are people who cannot understand it in the UK.

Geordie can be difficult.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdrYLgpz0Ls

I just looked for this on the internet. They too have their own words.

Liverpool has a difficult accent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0J-lHFeF0g&feature=related

Cockney has rhymng slang and an accent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HngRt7guls

Welsh can be hard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf5pYQCwjI8

Lancashire's not too bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc670H7MUhE

Where are you planning to go?

[Jack of Hearts]

Not sure yet. Coming up from France so probably the southern part. Would love to make it to Ireland but haven't looked into it and heard it can get complicated.






J

[Paulclem]

You'll like Ireland. Everyone says how friendly it is - though I've not been.

You probably won't have much a of a problem with the southern accents.

You'll be taking in London then. The British Museum/ Natural History Museum and art galleries are great.

[Jack of Hearts]

Yeah, probably. Wherever it's clever to get a bed. It'd be nice to latch on to a school excursion, but that's looking unlikely.







J

[Sancho]

Hoity-Toity

That right there is a good word, or two.

[Sancho Panza]

Sesquipedalia has to be the best word ever. It isn't the easiest word to slip into a conversation, but it slips of the tongue nicely. Pantagruelian is another nice one, with a similar, but broader meaning.

[qimissung]

So hoity-toity of you, Sancho Panza. :)

Sesquipedalia, which apparently means "a very long word." That would be hard to slip into conversation.

[Paulclem]

So hoity-toity of you, Sancho Panza. :)

Sesquipedalia, which apparently means "a very long word." That would be hard to slip into conversation.

I'll be waiting for the opportunity to say:

"What a sesquipidalian utterance!"

Especially at dinner parties. (Not that I go to any).

[Jack of Hearts]

Transcendental.

"Oh her flowing skirt is blowing in a transcendental wind"- Deadeye Dick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDw9xgSmSc

"There must be such a science, forming the first part of the transcendental doctrine of elements, in distinction from that part which deals with the principles of pure thought, and which is called transcendental logic." - Immanuel Kant

[Paulclem]

Catastrophise - I've just read it in an article, and i think it does describe a certain kind of person's actions.

http://psychcentral.com/lib/2007/what-is-catastrophizing/

(Note the British s instead of the US z. Both are acceptable.)

[qimissung]

Someting I tend to do. Or as we say in America, the Chicken Little syndrome. :D

Quixotic. I love to say it, and I believe I AM somewhat quixotic. Where is Rocinante, where is my windmill?

[BookBeauty]

'Philistine' is a word I'm quite fond of lately.

[Triter]

diaphanous

[country doctor]

BUCKLE UP!

has the doc typed 'dungeon' before, general chatters?

whether he has or not, it's still one of his favorites...

and...

of course...

there's this one, general chatters...

ROAR!

[cacian]

cacophony I like it but for all the wrong reasons :)
masquerade is another word.
I like it because it plays on the word mask/masque and parade or even rade.

[Oedipus]

Moist

[country doctor]

BUCKLE UP!

here's one for the general chatters...

oblivion...

ponder that, chatters...ponder that...

and...

when you're finished...

let out a gigantic...

ROAR!

[cacian]

soliloquy : if feels like a party in the mouth when you say it.

[tonywalt]

Delving (i was gonna say cacophony!-whiiiine)

[chris_eriksson]

"Onomatopoeia". One of the few words I can't spell. :-)

[claytonk983]

i like all words.But i like close friend word more..The life is beautiful if we have good friends.

[tonywalt]

ethereal

[papayahed]

Transcendental.

"Oh her flowing skirt is blowing in a transcendental wind"- Deadeye Dick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDw9xgSmSc

"There must be such a science, forming the first part of the transcendental doctrine of elements, in distinction from that part which deals with the principles of pure thought, and which is called transcendental logic." - Immanuel Kant

*heads straight to youtube*

Mary Moooooonnnnnn

[Hwo Thumb]

That's tough. I can't narrow it down to one, but here are some I like. (I'll think of more an hour from now and forget to add them)

Articulate.
Ironic.
Pitch. (In the rotational direction sense)
Onomatopoeia.
Pedantic.
Obsequious.
Sanguine.
And there's Tarrak, which is actually a profanity I made up for a story.

Edit: Whoops, forgot the best word: Serenity
[/browncoat]

[Whosis]

The only time I've heard a person say she had a favorite word was "indefatigable." That's a good choice. I like a long word when it sounds good in use. I guess I like the word "luminous" a good deal. I'm having trouble with this one.