Words & Names, v. 2009
Words & names you ♥ or just want to talk about.
Continued from v. 2008.
Date: February 13, 2009
Categories: The Universe, Things We like
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Piggy
in February 13th, 2009 @ 11:40I still enjoy onomatopoeic words like “sludge”, as well as long, complicated words which make me sound even smarter. And archaic words, especially Elizabethan ones.
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Cerulean Pyros
in February 13th, 2009 @ 12:04I learned a new word this week. It came to us from German. The word is “ersatz”. It means a substitute for something else, but of a lesser quality than the original.
Insubordination is a good word, too. Lieutenant is fun to say, as are cacophonous and epaulets.
An ephemera of enigmatic elephants is astoundingly fun to say.
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☼Zinc the sorceress☼
in February 13th, 2009 @ 13:192: *tries it* Wow, you’re right! An ephemera of enigmatic elephants! Squee!
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trust kokopelli
in February 13th, 2009 @ 17:52As I said on the previous version, Moxy Fruvous is an awesome name!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in February 13th, 2009 @ 17:59And in one of their songs, they rhyme it with “ways to improve us.”
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☼Zinc the sorceress☼
in February 13th, 2009 @ 18:15Well, RoseQuartz (almost put LadyG there) asked everyone what they think her name was, based on her blogname. I think it’s better to continue it here because
this thread gets barely any traffic anywayit suits the idea of the thread better.So, what would you think Zinc the sorceress’ name would be?
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Nthanda the Laugher
in February 14th, 2009 @ 11:41Well, I don’t know what everyone’s names are…but I know your colors. Zinc, you’re a blue-gray with gold and purple; RoseQuartz, you’re pink and fuscia, although that might just be because those are the colors of roses and quartz. “Colored” names interfere with my color associations.
My name is tan, midnight blue, lime green and yellow.
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bookgirl_me
in February 14th, 2009 @ 12:247) Could you do mine ? People have no trouble guessing it, because I love books, look a bit like Hermione Granger (in the book) and my first name is Margaret (Maggie).
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RoseQuartz/LadyG
in February 14th, 2009 @ 12:59Hmm, I wonder how the colors of our blognames and our real names differ? Nthanda, what’s the difference between Hannah and RoseQuartz?
Zinc: titanium silver; Robin: robin’s egg blue.
bookgirl_me: dusty red like an old book; Maggie: brighter red.
Hmm, interesting.
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Cat's Eye (10 wung points)
in February 14th, 2009 @ 21:589: Ooh, I’m Hannah too! Hannah high five!
Zinc: robin’s egg-blue with metallic flecks… Robin: bright red and green
bookgirl_me: dusty tan, dark red, bright green… Maggie: purple, bright red, reflected light
RoseQuartz: dappled dark and light breen… Hannah: really dark brown, pale goldish tan, dark green, bright red
Ooh! I love the word quark! Quark! Quark!
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Kagcomix
in February 14th, 2009 @ 22:286- Briony. Deffinitely a “B” name.
7- Well, I see you as chocolate brown and royal blue.
What do you think my name is from my blog name?
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Nthanda the Laugher
in February 14th, 2009 @ 22:40Bookgirl_me–it’s hard for me to do real words like book or girl…but Maggie is a very definite grey and cinnamon red.
Anyone care to guess my real name? It’s black with hot pink, lime green, and neon yellow.
An awesome word: periwinkle.
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Luna the Lovely
in February 14th, 2009 @ 23:53Nthanda–could you do my name? Both my blogname, and my real name, Michelle? It would be cool to know what color’s I am.
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Kagcomix
in February 15th, 2009 @ 09:5612- hm… Ashley?
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RoseQuartz/LadyG
in February 15th, 2009 @ 12:0313- Luna: moonlight and pale silver reflected on a lake; Michelle: a darker silver, rain-cloud gray… it’s raining, but the rain doesn’t make you so much sad as thoughtful. Wow, I seem to have an extremely strange brain… actually, my picture for the name Michelle comes from the Beatles song, “Michelle.”
10- Holy wung, the colors I always associate with the name Hannah are really dark brown and goldish tan with a thread of silver running through them. And it’s so interesting how every single one of us associates bright red with the name Maggie!
14- No, Ashley is hot pink and butter yellow plaid. It doesn’t have any black, lime, or neon yellow, at least not to me. Nthanda, can you give us the first letter? I know that’s not much of a hint, but it does narrow it down a bit.
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Nthanda the Laugher
in February 15th, 2009 @ 13:52Luna: cream yellow and pea green.
Michelle: Burgundy red, with more cream yellow. This is weird, but to me, “M” and the “elle” are ‘dark’ letter combinations (hence the burgundy) but the “ch” breaks it up into the yellow.My name starts with an S. (That kind of gives it away. I can’t think of that many S names besides my own
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Luna the Lovely
in February 15th, 2009 @ 14:0515, 16–Thanks! I think both of you have see very nice color combos for my name. I’m silvery and burgundy, and creamy yellow.
16–Sarah, Susan, Samantha, Sherry (although I prefer the spelling “Cheri”), Sandra……
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RoseQuartz/LadyG
in February 15th, 2009 @ 14:0916- Oh, there are lots of S names! I’m thinking Sabrina, but that’s probably not right.
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Kokonilly
in February 15th, 2009 @ 14:13My name starts with an S, too. It’s extremely common.
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RoseQuartz/LadyG
in February 15th, 2009 @ 15:2119- I already know it from the Profiles thread. By the way, it’s salmon and lilac.
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Kokonilly
in February 15th, 2009 @ 15:3120 – Yeah, I figured.
Salmon and lilac… pretty!
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RoseQuartz/LadyG
in February 15th, 2009 @ 16:28I wonder if it’s possible to be… half-synesthetic? or something? I mean, I don’t see colors or word-pictures, but if I concentrate for a couple of minutes I just… know. If that makes any sense. It’s like the colors are there, I just have to concentrate to bring them into the open. Songs do that too, but the strongest are the ones that are in Dorian, they’re all some variation of silvers and grays. For instance, I’m listening to White Horse by Taylor Swift. The colors are there, but I have to search for a minute to find them. They’re soft yellows woven into a braid with a gold thread running through them.
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Nthanda the Laugher
in February 15th, 2009 @ 23:2617–You win. It’s one of those you listed. (But I won’t say which one!)
22–Yeah, I’m the same way. I think it’s just associations we’ve built up over the years with certain names and letter combinations.
Makes it easy to memorize stuff, tho–I can remember things by what color they are.
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RoseQuartz/LadyG
in February 16th, 2009 @ 11:3423- OK, I cheated, I know which one it is because I saw it on the Profiles thread. But how is that black with hot pink, lime green, and neon yellow? It’s forest green, neutral brown, and sunlight on dead leaves. Now Sabrina, that’s exactly the colors you said. It’s black with random splotches of hot pink, lime green and neon yellow, but they look like fabric paint on a T-shirt, if that makes any sense.
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Rainbowstar with 3 piepoints (on a school computer)
in February 17th, 2009 @ 17:07I am almost definitely not synesthetic, but I’m going to try making up picture-things for people’s names.
Zinc the sorceress: a glowing, faintly blue orb
RoseQuartz: a delicate rose carved out of translucent, pale pink quartz
Luna the Lovely: a sleek, indefinite shape (like the sculpture Bird), gold with hints of silver
Nthanda the Laugher: flowing teal silk
Kokonilly: a black-and-cream checkerboard pattern with soft, blurred edges between colorsWhat does “Rainbowstar” look like? I assume everyone’s going to say a rainbow star, but I just wanted to know.
What does ‘Miranda” look like?
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Alice
in February 17th, 2009 @ 18:3325-
Rainbowstar– A glittering fish in a glittering fish bowl, with a rainbow arcing over head, the sort of rainbow that’s in cartoons with clouds and pots of gold at the ends.Miranda– Angry dark skies and storm-tossed grey seas.
I can actually trace every association I just mentioned.
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Alyss
in February 17th, 2009 @ 18:42*random*
My new favorite word is continuum.
My old favorite word was spake, archaeic past tense of speak.
*end random*Anyone wanna guess my real name or color name?
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Zallie
in February 17th, 2009 @ 18:46. I have no idea what’s going on in this thread. What are all the colours for?
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AthenianPsycho
in February 17th, 2009 @ 21:13I love the word “acnestis”.
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Piggy
in February 17th, 2009 @ 21:3928- It’s synthesia (sp?). It’s where people relate two senses together more strongly than most people. People are seeing what their names “look” like to certain people with synthesia.
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Nthanda the Laugher
in February 17th, 2009 @ 21:4024–No idea why it’s those colors. I think it’s because that’s a color combination I associate with my personality–kind of wanna-be punk mixed with adventurousness.
26–Miranda is deep red and mahogany to me.
28–Oh, we’re just being random, we’re associating colors with people’s real names. Care to join?
A cool name: Jason Spectre (or maybe Spector?). It sounds like a futuristic ghost hunter to me for some reason…
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in February 17th, 2009 @ 22:10(26) Alice: Because of Miranda from The Tempest?
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Alice
in February 17th, 2009 @ 22:1232- Yep.
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♢RoseQuartz♢ (10 wung points)
in February 19th, 2009 @ 13:5231- “Spectre/Spector” sounds very like “specter,” a name for a ghost; perhaps your brain is punning the word? Where did you hear the name? Heyyy, that would make for an interesting character! Hmm…
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KaiYves (Delta V)
in February 19th, 2009 @ 16:33I like the name “Triana”. There was a scrapped satellite project named that. It sounds like a more fancy/exotic version of the name “Ariana”.
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small but fierce (one blue ice bear point, although I haven't officially been awarded it yet, I did earn it)
in February 22nd, 2009 @ 17:23Do both small but fierce and my real name.
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Peace_Pie_ The_Beatles_Rock!
in March 2nd, 2009 @ 17:01I like the word brobdingnagian because it’s fun to say. I also like the name Indigo and the name Starr. (as in Ringo Starr)
Oh and the word natiform
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Vendaval
in March 2nd, 2009 @ 22:30Vendavoile
SellsailI recently realized how ‘defenestrate’ is formed.
de- a prefix for from, away.
fenestr- from the French for window.
ate- a suffix for cause, amke.
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Silver Lining
in March 21st, 2009 @ 17:44I’d say this post is dying, too. . .
I like the names Indigo, Rose, Jay, Starr, Brett, Hazel, Faith and Kanter.
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KaiYves (Delta V)
in March 21st, 2009 @ 19:34We’re doing some stuff with rhombi in geometry class, and I have realized that “rhombus” is a very fun word to say.
Rhombus.
Rhombus.
Rhombus.
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Silver Lining
in March 24th, 2009 @ 18:33My new favorite word is plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop. Plop.
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Alice ♥s stories of all kinds
in March 24th, 2009 @ 18:53Dickensian. Now favorite word.
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Daisy*Chain
in March 24th, 2009 @ 19:48One day I came across the word ‘quash’ in a book and I could not stop laughing hysterically.
I also like the word ‘betwixt’.
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Silver Lining â™»s
in April 22nd, 2009 @ 10:50GEE WHIZ THIS THREAD IS SO BEYOND DEAD!!!!
Well, I noticed that a lot of you guys were talking about synesthesia. I’m slightly synesthetic, as in I picture colours with names. I picture a lot of people’s MuseBlog screen names as colours.
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Peace*
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 15:43What colour is my name, Silver Lining?
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Silver Lining and Mia (^..^)
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 15:51Hot pink. Ps and Rs are hot pink.
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Daisy*chain
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 17:12Ooh, do my name, please, Silver Lining!
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Silver Lining and Mia (^..^)
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 17:18Silver, yellow and turquoise. I can do your real name too.
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Daisy*chain
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 17:31Cool!
Real name: eh. If you want to.
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Silver Lining and Mia (^..^)
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 17:41Your real name is eh? Well, Eh is red.
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Daisy*chain
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 17:55
You know what I meant!
I assumed you knew my real name – I posted it before, somewhere… I’d rather not post it more than necessary. *paranoid of cyber-stalkers*
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Silver Lining and Mia (^..^)
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 19:35I don’t know your real name…sorry. Oh well.
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♢RoseQuartz♢ (10 wung points)
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 17:37To me it’s silver, yellow and white. Cool, it’s almost the same colors as Silver Lining’s!
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Enceladus
in December 26th, 2009 @ 10:51What’s mine?
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Insane MLDM (95 coolpointz)(1 b-day point)(undefined number of twisted evilpoints)
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 02:24Voila–a post!
Philadelphia+Pennsylvania+Delaware (
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Adelaide
socialite(I’m not sure if actually made that word up and it happened to be real or I just couldn’t remember where I saw it)
twisted evilpoints (see my name)
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Thanks For All The Fish42
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 17:37What color is my name????!!!! *is excited*
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Silver Lining and Mia (^..^)
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 19:34Blue and orange.
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 18:00My favorite word is “currency,” mostly from that hilarious line in Pirates of the Caribbean 3. I don’t even remember who was talking to Lord Beckett, but here’s what I recall:
:Someone: I guess honesty isn’t the currency of the realm anymore.
:Beckett: I believe the currency is the currency of the realm, someone.
I just crack up every time.
Also, the school library was giving away all its extra posters, and I got one just because it had the word “currency” in it. Here it is:Knowledge
The Currency of DemocracyI think that’s hilarious. Democracy doesn’t really have a currency… Also, the two -cy endings just make me laugh like a lunatic.
One of my friends got a poster that said “Love is a fourteen letter word: familyplanning.” That doesn’t make any sense! Love only has four letters! And family planning is two words anyway! Gosh.
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KaiYves (Delta V)
in April 23rd, 2009 @ 18:15When I was a little kid, I really liked the word “monstrosity”, and, a bit later “conspiracy”. Words that end in “y” are fun to say.
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Insane MLDM+Ferelda(^&^) (95 coolpointz)(1 b-day point)(*sighs*)
in May 2nd, 2009 @ 22:33I REALLY REALLY REALLY love the phrase *recoils in horror*
recoils in horror
recoils in horror
recoils in horrorPostcard in school library: Dewey and the decimals LIVE(underlined) in the library FREE ENTRY. It doesn’t make any sense but I absolutely love it. Maybe beacause I’m a maths geek and I find the word “decimals” vaguely attractive?
Then, I love what Einstein called his geometry book: his “holy geometry book”.
(Postcard number 2: It has ghosts saying things like “I’m stressed!” “Me too!” “eat and sleep well” “plan your attack” and above the words PASS and FAIL it has two white bunnies. Pity I din’t have a pink texta handy.
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Raynpho
in May 12th, 2009 @ 20:03Okay, so I have this debate with my friend(s). How do you guys pronounce the word “khaki”? I pronounce it like “khoh-kee” (rhymes with rocky), and have found not one other person that does the same, outside of my family. Everyone else says “khah-kee.” Rhymes with tacky. Because it is a tacky pronunciation.
Now, a brief google search wields the conclusion that Americans use the tacky pronunciation, UKers use the rocky one, and Canadians are just way off. But I’d like to see anyway, how do you say it and what region are you from? I would like to settle this.
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Tesseract
in May 12th, 2009 @ 20:16I use the tacky pronunciation. I live in North Carolina, but my parents are from the New York/New Jersey, so I don’t have a southern accent at all.
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Daisy*chain
in May 12th, 2009 @ 20:49I use the tacky pronunciation. *shrugs* It’s just how I learned it.
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Luna the Lovely
in May 12th, 2009 @ 22:19I use the “tacky” pronunciation……*is from Alaska*
That’s how I learnt it…..
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Axa
in May 12th, 2009 @ 22:47I have never heard of this khohkee pronunciation. Do you just use a long “a” sound? Because that makes sense, but I don’t understand where the “oh” would come in
I use the tacky pronunciation.
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Raynpho
in May 13th, 2009 @ 22:02Well, essentially it is pronounced “cocky.”
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KaiYves- Water? YES!
in November 30th, 2009 @ 17:05I’m from New York and I say the pronunciation that rhymes with “tacky”.
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soccer starr
in November 30th, 2009 @ 18:58I’m from New Jersey I use the tacky one…
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Ducky
in November 30th, 2009 @ 19:47I’m from Oregon, and I use the “tacky” one.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in November 30th, 2009 @ 20:13My father was in the Navy and usually wore khaki uniforms. We pronounced it “cacky.”
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Armada
in May 12th, 2009 @ 20:1350- The rocky pronunciation. I’m American, I’m just weird. And my mom pronounces it the tacky way.
That all sounds really weird, looking back at it….
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Raynpho
in May 13th, 2009 @ 22:04Yes! You should probably know, I’ve asked probably around 20 people/sources so far, and you are the first American non-family member who says it my way. Thank you.
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Tesseract
in May 12th, 2009 @ 20:20Post 50 reminds me: Last year my friend and I would always argue over whether mischievous is pronounced “MISS-cheh-vus” or “miss-CHEE-vee-ous.” We bet a bag of jelly beans over the dictionary pronunciation. I won.
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Cat's Eye (20 wung points)
in May 12th, 2009 @ 22:36My grandma always pronounced the word “misled” “MYZE-ld”, to rhyme with “PIES held.” She knew what it meant- she just pronounced it MYZEld.
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Keiffer
in November 30th, 2009 @ 16:34Hm… I believe my favorite word right now is “Balderdash” because Ebenezer Scrooge says it a lot. *worships scrooge*
I also say “Ninny-hammer” sometimes. There’s this other word that means “a short and insignificant person” but I can’t remember what it is…
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SudoRandom
in December 1st, 2009 @ 18:35Deagol.
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speller73
in November 30th, 2009 @ 17:04My favorite word as always is sesquipedalian. I also like ansu, pruritus, hemeralopia, alcarraza, and fumagillin. (Anyone see the pattern?) I’m a total word nerd…
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Keiffer
in November 30th, 2009 @ 17:40The pattern? Um… kinds of plants? I think I saw one that was a type of rash… Anyway, favorite word is still balderdash.
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speller73
in November 30th, 2009 @ 18:18One of them is a plant. One of them is a rash. The meanings really don’t have anything to do with it. And the pattern is probably something that you’d either know immediately or not.
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bubblebabe225
in November 30th, 2009 @ 18:23Quidsquip! A Native American name
Consanguinity,
Cachinnation,
Unasinous ( Sound familiar? ),
Malfeasant,
Cimiscine :),
Natiform :),
Mellifluous
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KaiYves- Water? YES!
in November 30th, 2009 @ 18:23There’s something about the world “resonance” that I like, also “magnetize”.
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Armada
in November 30th, 2009 @ 21:07This thread is still open….
Wow. I remember I used to love it when I was a ‘phyte. I’m supposed to be getting off the computer now, so perhaps I’ll post something here tomorrow.
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Ducky♩♪♫♬â™â™®â™¯
in December 5th, 2009 @ 14:52There’s something about the word “crept” that I like.
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bubblebabe225
in December 11th, 2009 @ 17:29I learned new words from my Frances Perkins book today!
Vicissitude
Bombastic
Vitrolic
Scurrilous
Chit
Animosity
And some from Flowers for Algernon ;
Vacuous
Peroration
Euphemism
Euphonious ( speaking of euphemism )
Qualms
Ionize
Manifold
Pertinent
Adroit
Exigency
Catatonic
Coalesce
Efface
And some random ;
Ignominious
Egregious
Agnostic
Cohesion
Colloquial
Loquacious
Circumlocution
Neolithic
Antipathic
Philharmonic
Occlusion
Credence
Indoctrinate
Equipoise
Incorrigible
I like words
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bookgirl_me
in December 26th, 2009 @ 05:48Speaking of names, I’m thinking of changing mine… to either skyblunebunny or violet sky (a reference to a song I love). Yes, no, maybe?
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starr
in December 26th, 2009 @ 09:19Violet Sky is really pretty…
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KaiYves
in December 26th, 2009 @ 10:18Yes, Violet Sky sounds pretty.
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KaiYves
in December 26th, 2009 @ 10:19“Transponder” is kind of fun to say.
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FantasyFan?!?!
in December 26th, 2009 @ 12:24I like the word zenzizenzizenzic because it overuses an underused letter of the alphabet.
It’s an outdated way to say the ‘eighth power of a number, x’
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bubblebabe225
in December 26th, 2009 @ 13:2462 – I like skybluebunny. In fact, if you don’t use it, can I have permission to steal it and run off with it like a eight-year-old with en’s shirttails on fire?
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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bookgirl_me
in December 26th, 2009 @ 13:30Sorry but no, as I already used it for a while on MA when MB was down and otherwise. I think of it as a good name to change to because some people (who were there at the time when avatars came about and I messed up on the account name) already know skybluebunny=bookgirl_me. It just isn’t on Who’s Here because I technically never used it on MB.
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bubblebabe225
in December 26th, 2009 @ 15:00Oh well. I’ll just brainstorm some other names for myself …
candy cane the twenty-fifth
AeroDynamic
Madeira the Muffin ( Madeira is NOT my real name )Hmmm, I like AeroDynamic the best. Henceforth ( whenever I feel like changing my screen name ) I shall be AeroDynamic 225.
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Mikazuki
in September 15th, 2010 @ 14:55I like names such as Aislyn, Rayne, Luna, and Belladonna. For myself, or anyone really. I also like Kaigara. Or Holly. Or Mikazuki, which is why I chose it.
For screen names, I like Yuffie the great
Yunalesca
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LittleBasementKitten
in September 15th, 2010 @ 15:32I like normal names spelled different. Like Allys. Or Jynna.
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