Kelly
What are your favorite words in English?

What are some of your favorite words in English, and why do you like them? As a native speaker myself, I would be curious to know especially what English learners like. 

As a lover of words and languages, I have so many favorites, but here are a few that I like, in no particular order. Some I like for the poetic sound, others I find funny or fun to say or enjoy the meaning. 

- ephemeral

- crystalline

- shenanigans

- squish

- shimmering

- apparition

- constellation

- blip

- flourish

7 nov. 2018 06:58
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That's a great list, Kelly. I actually like "ephemera" better than "ephemeral." I like "shenanigans" partly because its such a pretty word for such an ugly thing.

How about "anonymous," "ululation," "memory?"

And of course, "tintinnabulation," as in 

Hear the sledges with the bells—

                 Silver bells!

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

        How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

           In the icy air of night!

        While the stars that oversprinkle

        All the heavens, seem to twinkle

           With a crystalline delight;

         Keeping time, time, time,

         In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

       From the bells, bells, bells, bells,

               Bells, bells, bells—

  From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.


8 november 2018
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Discombobulated!
7 november 2018
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Success  
Appreciate
Cute 
Sweetie 
Fool

Except success and Appreciat the rest sounds too cool and funny>♡<

7 november 2018
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Hmmm, interesting question, letme share my beloved words:

*Sophisticated

*Sophistication

*Refrigerator

*Encyclopedia

*Procrastination

Basically I like these words for their cool pronunciations.


7 november 2018
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cherish and perish


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