Donks just used one of mine. Benbecula. I've no idea why it is, apart from it sounds mad!
Have you got any and please explain why better than I can mine?!
Donks just used one of mine. Benbecula. I've no idea why it is, apart from it sounds mad!
Have you got any and please explain why better than I can mine?!
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Is it the shipping forecast?
Benbecula is a good word. No idea what it means.
I like Melifluous.
I prefer it spelt correctly though: Mellifluous!
Etymological
i dont know no big words im a simple girl (in more ways than 1) goes to find a dictionary.
Is it the shipping forecast?
Maybe. There's a lot of them in that though. It's poetry innit.
Benbecula is a good word. No idea what it means.
I like Melifluous.
I think it's a island off Scotland. And I love yours too!
Etymological
Pfft. I don't even know how to pronounce that one! It's a phonetic nightmare!
i dont know no big words im a simple girl (in more ways than 1) goes to find a dictionary.
I like the word simple justy!
haha that me off to bed happy xoch
Snuggle
Is it the shipping forecast?
Maybe. There's a lot of them in that though. It's poetry innit.
Yep
Etymological
Pfft. I don't even know how to pronounce that one! It's a phonetic nightmare!
I've just realised why I love the word Benbecula! I reminds me of Ben Bulben in Co. Sligo, and famous for being the mountain near which W.B. Yeats was buried and that I visited.
He wrote 'Under Ben Bulben', and his wishes in the poem were fulfilled.
Benbecula looks pretty spectacular too:
Benbecula in Gaelic is Beinn na Faoghla which means Mountain of the Ford. This is a very apt name for the island and it's solitary hill, Rueval, which is in fact a stepping stone between North and South Uist. The islands are connected by a series of causeways but once upon a time crossing to the Uists would mean fording the dangerous stretches of tidal sands.
Oooo! That does look fab! I wonder if donks would have us in the Lighthouse then!
Mercurial. I just like the sound of it
My favourite word is gobsh**e - I love that word for some reason.
I also like obfuscation and we used to have contests guessing the number of times Jack McCoy used to say it in Law and Order as it's mainly used in legal terms
"congratulations" you have won the lottery
Conor,You have been evicted.
Fallopian
I have two
Serendipity - finding something good or useful without looking for it
Cosy
I love the word: Ghastly .... you gotta say it with gusto .... dunno why but I just love it
just as words.. nothing to do with the meanings..
turgid and bludgeon
gawd knows what this says about me
oh & obsequious thats another good one
Juxtaposition and cock are my favourite words.
Splendid ... with emphasis on the P
and I agree with mellifluous, obsequious and juxtaposition
oh, and I like Coruscating
I would like to add rapscallion.
Thank you Scott for reintroducing that word to my vocabulary.
Fallopian
You really 'are' a woman, aint ya?
I would like to add rapscallion.
Thank you Scott for reintroducing that word to my vocabulary.
it was already in my vocab.. I named the first 3 chicks that were born this year the rapscallions (I don't even know where the word came from... it just suited them)...
I still call them that... they are a naughty gang of 3 mini dinosaurs now
Snaffle
Bibliograhy
Delicious
Scallywag
discombobulation
Oooo! Wonderful words everyone, although I do worry about Rawky sometimes!
Another from me. Fiasco. It's just so overly dramatic!
discombobulation
sounds painful!!!
discombobulation
Soozy! That is brilliant! It sounds exactly like what it is trying to express, doesn't it?!
discombobulation
sounds painful!!!
Doesn't it though!
I like a lot of 'ation' words and Soozy made me think of tintinnabulation - the sound of bells ringing.
discombobulation
Soozy! That is brilliant! It sounds exactly like what it is trying to express, doesn't it?!
In that case, may I suggest Onomatopia
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