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Favourite Words

AnnieH

So I have always loved reading and wondered if anyone had a favourite word or phrase?

I read a lot of historical fiction so my favourites tend to be of a bygone era. I love the word melancholic. I also love the word apothecary. I can't tell you why but I just love the sound of them in my head. If I say them out loud it doesn't sound the same though. Weird.

I love words that really capture the essence of their meaning so that you instantly get a strong image just from reading them. Words often get stuck in my head, which I suppose is a bit like mental echolalia (a new favourite of mine ha ha).

Would be interested to see if anyone else feels likewise.

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  • miscellaneous

    took me few years to learn how to pronunce it, and then next few to learn how to spell it,

    until then it was on my avoidance list, it a a popular word, don't you think ?

  • in reply to Mariusz

    Its a great word, I had difficulty with simultaneous for similar reasons - the first time I heard it was when asked to do tasks and suggested I could do them simultaneously, but obviously didn't as the word was just a sound to me and I didn't ask what it meant.  That was 1988, no internet for google etc., if you didn't know something you had to find things out by asking or looking it up in a book, dictionary, etc.

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  • in reply to Mariusz

    Its a great word, I had difficulty with simultaneous for similar reasons - the first time I heard it was when asked to do tasks and suggested I could do them simultaneously, but obviously didn't as the word was just a sound to me and I didn't ask what it meant.  That was 1988, no internet for google etc., if you didn't know something you had to find things out by asking or looking it up in a book, dictionary, etc.

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