What’s your favourite English word?
Posted by Laine Cole on May 26, 2010
While enjoying the truly international feel of April’s IATEFL conference in Harrogate we also took the opportunity to ask delegates this simple question:
What’s your favourite English word and why?
Here’s a short video of some of the answers:
Tell us what your favourite word is and why by posting a comment to this post.
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Comments (11)
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Posted by Karenne Sylvester on 27th May, 2010
My favourite word is “enthusiasm” which when translated from Greek means something like to be filled with Spirit (or God) – though I’m not religious I can’t help but notice that there’s a sort of light that shines out of people when they’re enthusiastic about something they’re doing… so that’s my favourite word!
Karenne
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Posted by Lutz Struckmeier on 15th July, 2010
I fully agree with Karenne, “enthusiasm” would have been my first choice too, for exactly the same reasons; so I have nothing to add… apart from my second-favourite word, ie “to choose”, first, because I highly cherish the freedom of choice, second, because from my point of view it provides a nice entry into pointing out likenesses and differences between, and the common origin of English and German to my students (choose < OE ceosan rel. to obs. Germ. "(er)kiesen" hence "küren, Kür, Kurfürst" due to rhotacism)… so here's another favourite one: choose!
Lutz
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Posted by Gretchen on 16th July, 2010
RACECAR. I have thing for palindromes. Wait. Can I change my answer? Maybe “palindrome” is my favorite word.
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Posted by Stephan Hughes on 19th August, 2010
My favourite is PREPOSTEROUS, firstly for the pronunciation of it and how amusing it sounds especially when the Brits utter it. Its meaning is also impacting; you need say nothing more than the word to get your point across.
That sounds preposterous!
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Posted by Josefina on 24th August, 2010
my favourite word is UNJUSTIFIABLE. it sounds great!
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Posted by Ana Evans on 24th August, 2010
I don’t believe it’s a real word, but my favourite is “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”, the title of a song in the film “Mary Poppins”!
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Posted by Roberta Ramos on 25th August, 2010
I’ve never thought about that before but I guess it’s environment. When I was a student it was so difficult to pronounce it that when I finally learned I never forgot
And I don’t know if it makes any sense but nowadays I’m really concerned about the environment lolRobbie
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Posted by Tania Faria on 25th August, 2010
My favourite word is ‘chocolate’. Although pronunciation is different; spelling, taste and smell are the same in both English and my mother tongue!
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Posted by Ana Carolina Dalcolmo on 26th August, 2010
The best word ever is ‘love’, cuz is all you got and all you need! hahaha ♥
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Posted by Maria do Céu Costa on 31st August, 2010
Our favourite word in the English language is “cherish”. It conveys a positive mood which has to do with feelings. It tells us of care and tenderness.
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Posted by Déborah Ramos on 1st September, 2010
My favorite word is “Burgundy”. I remember learning it in an English class and loving the sound of it and the colour itself. I love Burgundy subconsciously too. It’s one of those words people rarely use, but when I used it at first, it was on my mind for a long time.
