Comments on: What’s your favourite English word?

By: Iara Maria Soares

Iara Maria Soares — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:21:08 +0000

My favorite English word is “TOUCH”. It sounds great!!!

By: AnWulf

AnWulf — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:04:41 +0000

I think I went thru about a 1/4 of the comments before someone said a “true” English word … one that has Anglo-Germanic roots rather than a Latinate or Greek-rooted word. That’s kind of sad.

The one that I like the best … bedoven … means to be drenched or drowned (ppl from archaic bedive). For byspel: After walking thru the jungle, he was bedoven with sweat.

By: Jon Sumner

Jon Sumner — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:22:00 +0000

I really like the word WINNINGEST which I gather is used by sports announcers in the States. In the U.K. we never use that word but it is such a funny (and useful) word!

Also on the Simpsons they used that word EMBIGGENS, as in “A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man”.

It’s amazing how these words start off tongue in cheek but end up being used day to day.

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:08:46 +0000

I hated MENAGERIE as a child. It made me itch. I see someone wrote RENDEZVOUS. This reminds me of George W, who apparently said that the French were no good in business because they didn’t have a word for ENTREPRENEUR. Well, well!!

By: Lore

Lore — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:09:37 +0000

My favourite English word is “candy” because is sweet

By: Marisol

Marisol — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:51:19 +0000

“tangerine ” because it sounds as it tastes:sour and sweet

By: Iara

Iara — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:15:46 +0000

My favorite English word is definitely “procrastination”. It just sounds good and it’s a very useful word. We also have an equivalent in Spanish (procrastinar), though we don’t use it as often.

By: Thamires

Thamires — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:56:47 +0000

My favorite word in English is ‘knowledge’, because I think sounds good! HAHAHA’

By: Claudio Silva

Claudio Silva — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:03:00 +0000

My favorite words are all the performative verbs (promise, forbid, invite, swear, declare etc) not because of their sound but rather because of their power to convey the kind of speech act being performed.
Claudio Silva

By: helen

helen — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:00:02 +0000

“Ombudsman” is Swedish, “zucchini” is Italian – English is such a fabulous language – constantly adorning itself with jewels from multicultural crowns. By the way, “slut” comes from “slattern” which means a sloppy housekeeper, NOTHING to do with loose morals! My favourite word is “voluptuous”, especially as pronounced by an old Finnish friend of mine who used to say “volumptuous” !!!