Registered: Aug 2000
Location: LfuckinA
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Paean!

Paean is one of those words. Whenever I hear it, I get all giddy. Whenever someone uses it in their speech, I get really happy. I love seeing it in print in major publications, as well. I noticed it today in an article I was reading in one of the weekly rags from back home. Why do I get all happy? I suppose because it's one of those very unused words and that I'm a bit of a nasty, dirty logophile. So, here's my question to you: Do you have a word or words that make you feel all happy and giddy and junk? Or, is this simply something else to add to the long list of things that make me weird?

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Registered: Apr 2001
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pinche gringos! (sp?)


is fun to say at parties

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Registered: Jan 2001
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This is where I would say something witty but I don't know what that fucking word means much less how it's pronounced.

No I will not cheat an look in a dictionary.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Sydney
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"plethora" and "frock" were the first ones to spring to mind.
I am sad to say I have never used "paean" in my life.
Ah well.

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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: US
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"goober"

"moratorium"

"fakin' the funk"
(ok, it is an expression, so sue me)
Men who say "fakin' the funk" are my weakness, I will be their love slave forever.

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Originally posted by Dog Breath
This is where I would say something witty but I don't know what that fucking word means much less how it's pronounced.

No I will not cheat an look in a dictionary.

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*cough*

fakin' the funk

*cough*

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Registered: Nov 2001
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"hubris" always sort of shook me up. Another one is "tendentious" whish is an excellent argument ender.

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Registered: Aug 2000
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Ahh, yes, hubris. That is also one! Last year, when I was teaching Othello to my senior class, I think I may have over-used it simply to compensate for the fact that I've only heard about three people say it ever, two of which were my university instructors. Oxsan gets another :+: from me.

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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: northern Virginia
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"slantered"
or
"lethologica"
and
"swanky" I like swanky

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Originally posted by oxsan
"hubris" always sort of shook me up.

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