Words We Love

[Kassiana]

To show off my wide reading and anally retentive memory, I think it's Bungy the budgie in 'Order of the Phoenix.'

Oh, you're good.

One of the reasons I enjoy John Kovalic's comic, Dork Tower, is that he has Giant Auroran Battle Budgies mentioned sometimes. (I've owned budgies since I was eight years old. I don't know if they could really be taught to water ski, but I do know they can be taught to speak fluent cockatiel and give kisses because one of my little guys does both.)

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Oh, you're good.

One of the reasons I enjoy John Kovalic's comic, Dork Tower, is that he has Giant Auroran Battle Budgies mentioned sometimes. (I've owned budgies since I was eight years old. I don't know if they could really be taught to water ski, but I do know they can be taught to speak fluent cockatiel and give kisses because one of my little guys does both.)

Yup, not only water ski - they are pretty hot on hang gliding according to Dr Dolittle! Only trouble is they fart when they land. What the heck!

 

[iansearchof]

This thread delights and runs thru my head like a phrase or song (what's that word?--something mania) that I can't get rid of. So....

incarcerate
concatenation
vituperate, -ive, -ion
ruminate, masticate, mastoid (sounds like a naughty body part, don't it?)
susurrant, susurration
fellatio
interstice, -s, interstitial (note their role in avoiding the freudian)
ejaculate (one of the few [primarily] technical/sex words I like, vagina and vulva being the others)
penumbra, adumbrate
surfeit
viviparous
viscus
viscid
vivacious, vivacity
lapsus linguae
lurid
lagniappe
solipsism, -istic
saturnine
saturnalia
sub rosa

It occurs to me that a fondness for a particular word often involves a personal story; how else explain "smegma" here (this from a guy who likes "viscid!")?
Exanimate is such a word for me, altho the story would not be of special interest.

A friend once told of a young man declaring to a class considering the contribution/lack of certain words to literature: "I think FUCK is the most beautiful word in the English language!" A woman in our group replied after some thought, "I like onomatopoeia." That word now is very special to me.

In a bar late one night, a very delightful British woman made reference to "leg aaahhhurons" (leg irons). The effect upon me caused me to question my sanity (or at least examine the kinks in my coil) until another man said, "The way she says it, I say 'Lead me to it!'"

Words are wonderful and exciting--in so many ways--and can have so many wonderful associations.