Words, do you like words?

Etymologists of the world unite!  (From the Latin verb unire, derived from unus meaning one - but of course you already knew that.)   Make sequipedilian pompoverbosity a quotidian imperative! Get out your thesauri and start the revolution.

Autistic people don't quibble ... we merely seek to clarify why we are correct.

I've always liked words and language. The only snag for me is that my brand of ASD affects my ability to spell. I can't get them to stick, no matter how many times I write them down. My writing is also slow ugly and painful.

Language is important and using the correct words means your less likely to be misunderstood.

Very long words are interesting to say, such as antidisestablishmentarianism,  it looks complicated but it breaks down nicely.

I have always been fond of the word undulating, as it sounds exactly as it means (at least it does to me). 

I also like creating new words, which often happens by accident when I inadvertently attempt to use two similar meaning words simultaneously and end up combining them into a new word. Some of the results have been great new words, others have been interesting failures.

I love this phenomen too.

I think the only reason why the word 'cwtch' appeals to me is because I was born in Wales, and I became accustomed to hearing people say it, despite living in an English-speaking area of Wales. If it wasn't for that, I doubt it would have quite the same appeal for me.

By the way, I like your use of the word 'buggeration' and have concluded I ought to use it more in my vocabulary. 

I'm not a fan of the word cwtch, to me it sticks in the mouth rather than rolling around it, it's like trying to spit out a toffee thats stuch to the teeth. Ormalou is a good wrod that I don't get to use enough, it's both Crapulous and a source of Buggeration that language is so limited in everyday use, I thinks its why I like the written word so much

Kerfuffle

Fata Morgana

Petrichor

I rather like the following words, although I seldom use them:

Serendipity, Quintessential, Resplendent, Halcyon, Laconic, Boudoir, Burlesque.

I am also quite fond of the Welsh word 'Cwtch' (meaning a cuddle/hug).

Do I like words?  Indubitably. Definitely. Incontrontavertibly. Long live Roget!

So is no one else biting??? I see that 'bugbear' is a real bugbear of yours... Sorry...

I'm not into words to the extent  the rest of you seem to be, but when it comes to high range IQ tests I do best at the verbal ones. In a ideal world I would have loved to write a book, but pronounced EF deficits when it comes to organising and planning have kiboshed any hope of doing that.

Totally love words. Used to be obsessive about spelling, grammar and punctuation and would point out people's errors  particularly in the early days of social media. Until I realised that people really didn't like that, haha.

I have always been fascinated by etymology and used to Obsessively look up word origins, especially while I was studying. It's just interesting for its own sake.

I hate the word "bugbear". Just flippin hate it. It's so clumsy. 

I like 'sesquipedalian' but rarely get the opportunity to use it.

Ben

Sporadic Sparkly said:

I do like words and considered English to be one of my favourite subjects at school. In fact, it was probably the only subject I genuinely liked and looked forward to.

It was the same for me-every other subject was meh for me but English, there was always something special about it. Despite school being awful from start to finish-English almost made it worth it lol. 

I do like words and considered English to be one of my favourite subjects at school. In fact, it was probably the only subject I genuinely liked and looked forward to.

At the beginning of the GCSE years, my English teacher had strongly recommended to the class that we equip ourselves with a thesaurus. For years, I considered my chunky Roget's Thesaurus to be like a Bible, and one of my most-treasured books. As I've gotten older, I'm aware that I have slipped into bad habits... Instead of using different words that mean the same thing to make what I'm saying or writing not seem boring and repetitive, I have become lazy.

On the topic of words, whilst I have no issue with the word 'like', I have developed a dislike of how it is often used as a 'filler' word. An example of this being:

I like went to the surgery, and the receptionist was like really abrupt with me, so I got like really upset.

In terms of favourite words, I'm unable to think of any off the top of my head, or at least not any I could state here without being censored. From time to time I get enjoyment from making up words, which sometimes includes tweaking existing words. 

I love the origins of phrases, be they Biblical, historical or nautical. Tons of phrases we use have got some fascinating origins.

The word quarantine, for example, comes from the time of the Black Death (not called until the 1800s),  when sailors entering the port of Venice had to stay on their ships for 40 days, which in the venetian language of the time, was called a quarantina, meaning 40 days. Hence, quarantine.

Owl, is an interesting word, it comes from old English and is related to the sound owls make, but in Welsh a W is literally a double U sound, so I have my doubts as to it's old English origin.

English has so many loan words, you can almost travel around the world in English, skirt, is Scandinavian, algebra is Arabic, chutney is Indian. Welsh has many loan words too, which makes me think that the Romans introduced the idea of windows, (Welsh ffenetr) which is totally different to Scots Gaelic Uinneag. Nearly all our medical words are Greek, like  Physician.

Q words are interesting too, some people pronounce it with K sound missing the W sound that goes with it, changing it from a KW sound to a soft K.

We have so many silent letters in English too, most languages pronounce all the letters in a word, I think the only person with really good pronunciation of the WH sound is Reeta Chakrabarti from BBC news, her pronunciation is sublime.

There are so many words I love-like Mignonnerie-meaning cuteness. I haven't even been to France and never need to say this word lol I just like to when I'm on my own. It rolls off the tongue so ssmoothly, just sounds cute I guess. I also like discovering new words, why I own a few different dictionaries. I like to learn them and then try to work out how to pronounce them which isn't always as easy as it sounds. But I love to learn so I always have a really fun time.

I remember as a teenager reading books written for adults and looking up the words I didn't know in the dictionary. I like understanding where words come from, their cultural history if you like, as well as their meaning. My favourite words have interesting rhythmical patterns when you say them out loud (like in-ter est ing), I can see it in musical notation (dotted crotchet, quaver, crotchet crotchet)... And I'm currently reading about phenomenological research methods, so that is a comforting word right now. Phenomenon can replace 'mnah-mnah' in the song the muppets did... "phenomenon... doo doooo doo doo doo"

My least favourite words are the ones that people use wrongly as it makes my brain hurt in confusion.