Favourite Words

I love particular words for their sound too, and I have also experienced a word getting stuck in my head. 
I have many favourites, although I can’t think of many right now. Words like entangling, lexicon, luminous, mythography, rhythm, shimmy, shingle, wild… My favourite French word is époustouflée, which is the feminine form of breathtaken.

I also have aversions to particular words - the one I once got stuck in my head for hours one night was conglommerate

Also ashes, embers, lunar, nectar, ocean… Someone here said equilibrium, which is a brilliant one. Aquarium is nice too

Impetus, liminal, seamless, vast… I also love the French word élan, meaning something like momentum, (another good word!) Right I will now try to stop flooding this thread :) ;)

Old English had three genders, like Modern German, masculine, feminine and neuter. The Modern English possessive apostrophe, as in "George's", indicates a now missing "e" that formed the Old English genitive case. So "ship's", meaning 'belonging to the ship' would have been "scipes" (sc was pronounced like the modern sh). Old English was better than Modern English in some ways, all letters were pronounced and spelling and pronunciation were exactly linked. So there were no, cough, bough, borough difficulties. Plus the 'th' sounds in 'thin' and 'that' (unvoiced and voiced) each had its own specific single letter.

all because of laziness,

old english used to have declension and conjugation, derived from latin, so not as encompassing every single word like slavic languages, but still you could tell rods apart

People tend to shorten names for every day use anyway, if they can, but men might struggle with names that are unisex or thought of as female names.  Kelly is a good example as original male but then became very feminine.  Kelly Jones of Sterephonics a recent male example I can think of, and he's Welsh and the name will connect back through to the Irish (Celtic) origins of the word - or not, if his parents just wanted a quirky boys name to be ribbed about.

I baptised a workmate with a nickname Ashton Martin and it stuck, he was going by Ash, and we alll suspected it to be short from Ashley, since he did not want to tell

Lotus made a sports car called the Elan, used to be popular for cars to have momentum names, or momentous ones.   Great car manufacturer and model names combinations as well from 'evil spirit' Lambourghi Diablo, to the very basic and amusing Reliant Robin, and ironic Austin Allegro for a car not particular quick.  

Lotus made a sports car called the Elan, used to be popular for cars to have momentum names, or momentous ones.   Great car manufacturer and model names combinations as well from 'evil spirit' Lambourghi Diablo, to the very basic and amusing Reliant Robin, and ironic Austin Allegro for a car not particular quick.  

Old English had three genders, like Modern German, masculine, feminine and neuter. The Modern English possessive apostrophe, as in "George's", indicates a now missing "e" that formed the Old English genitive case. So "ship's", meaning 'belonging to the ship' would have been "scipes" (sc was pronounced like the modern sh). Old English was better than Modern English in some ways, all letters were pronounced and spelling and pronunciation were exactly linked. So there were no, cough, bough, borough difficulties. Plus the 'th' sounds in 'thin' and 'that' (unvoiced and voiced) each had its own specific single letter.

all because of laziness,

old english used to have declension and conjugation, derived from latin, so not as encompassing every single word like slavic languages, but still you could tell rods apart

People tend to shorten names for every day use anyway, if they can, but men might struggle with names that are unisex or thought of as female names.  Kelly is a good example as original male but then became very feminine.  Kelly Jones of Sterephonics a recent male example I can think of, and he's Welsh and the name will connect back through to the Irish (Celtic) origins of the word - or not, if his parents just wanted a quirky boys name to be ribbed about.

I baptised a workmate with a nickname Ashton Martin and it stuck, he was going by Ash, and we alll suspected it to be short from Ashley, since he did not want to tell