Words I love:
Ubiquitous
Serendipity
Antique
Naught
Words I don't love:
Tinfoil (arrgghbleeechh - it makes me think of biting down on it and getting that horrible shivery feeling)
Metastasize (both because of the implications and because I always mangle it when I try to say it)
Perky
Enate - This is a crossword-word meaning "related to on the mother's side". I've never seen it used in real life, and I don't like the sound of it.
Mic, when written as an abbreviation for "microphone". Technically, it's correct, but when I see it, I just think "mick". Why not write it as "mike", the way it sounds?
Enervate - It does not mean what it looks like it means, and for that, fie on you, enervate!
Word about which I am ambivalent:
Petulant (sounds nice, and ooogy, both at the same time)
Sanguine
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- I was born in 1962; you do the math. (See also: I'm too lazy to remember to update this thing regularly.) I bought my first house in the summer of 2009; I share it with four cats and with the memories of The Runt and Little Girl, who both passed away in 2011. Rocky, the cat for whom this blog was named, passed away in 2008; I miss them all. I wish I lived somewhere where the winters weren't eight months long; other than that, life is good.
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4 comments:
I love the words
Ersatz (never seems to be a good time to use it)
Samba
Undulate
Tinker
Obdurate
Coy, Arch, Dry -- pretty much every adjective that could describe Harriet Vane in a Lord Peter Wimsey novel
Hate the words
Ampule
Chicanery
Seer (who can pronounce it without sounding dumb?)
Okay, I admit it - I had to look up "obdurate".
And "ampule"? Blarrggghhhhh.
I would go so far as to say that "ampule" is not as revolting as "pistule".
I love "mellifluous"; it sounds like its meaning (what's that? Onomatopoeia? Which, in itself, I think is a lovely word).
And Lord Peter Wimsey?? I thought I was the only person who'd heard of him! You got all the books?? He's my absolute hero. Absolute.
And of course I spelled that wrongly, I meant "pustule" not "pistule".
Even more revolting than my incorrectly spelled one.
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