Words that are fun to say

[Shirt Ninja 13]

Does anyone have any words that they just enjoy saying, for whatever reason? If they're not in English, please provide a definition, but yeah.

For instance: uvula. Uvula. :)
*bamf*

[silenus]

Borborygme :D

Callipygian

Spathic

[JoeSki]

Sodey pop :D

I play an online game called SOCOM 2 in which players use mics to talk to their teamates. You'd be suprised at how many people take joy in speaking my name. Random people speak it into the mic all the time.

Go on, say it.

JoeSki

[The Great Sun Jester]

Skullduggery (But only sometimes)

And good "woody" sounding words like:
Gone
Caribou
Round
Loose Woman
Zone

[Already in Use]

Fubsy kumquats
Zombie flapjack
Gumshoe foosball
In my knapsack!

--a poem/song I wrote

[Tamarin]

Bulbous Bouffant
Gazebo
Macadamia

:D

[Already in Use]

Skullduggery (But only sometimes)

And good "woody" sounding words like:
Gone
CaribouINTERCOURSE!

[Already in Use]

Bulbous Bouffant
Gazebo
Macadamia

:DI noticed you're not wearing any GALOSHES.

[Tamarin]

It's sunny out...no need for galoshes.

[LavenderBlue]

Meme
Ubiquitous
Scarf
Flim-flam
Potato

[The Great Sun Jester]

INTERCOURSE!
Caribou GONE!

[saramamalana]

perpendicular

susurrar (Spanish for 'to whisper' - go ahead and say it aloud)

[Ogre]

syzygy!

[Punoqllads]

Smock. Smock smock smock smock smock.

[rjk]

susurrar (Spanish for 'to whisper' - go ahead and say it aloud)
I like that one! Quite a few of the others are good too, but my long-term favourite is still thixotropic (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=thixotropic), describing mixtures that are solid when left alone, liquefy when stirred, and solidify again. Try it with a tub of yogurt.

Of course there's always Jack Soo's immortal line from the hash-brownies episode of Barney Miller: "Mooshy! Mooshy! Mooshy!"

[rolandgunslinger]

Vagina

[Mockingbird]

imbibe
indolent
locquatious
glans
multiple orgasms
innoculate
masturbation
hot monkey love
wild demented weasel sex
tang
defenstrate

[Garfield226]

Bulbous Bouffant
Gazebo
Macadamia

:D

HULLABALOO!

(No, we're not nuts... (http://www.wepsite.de/bulbous_bouffant.htm))

[ouryL]

ordvoid

[Vision of Love]

Lorry (with a Brit accent)


Actually, make that..... anything in a British accent. :D

[Sharky]

Onomatopoeia

[Pessor]

Vagina


I'm down with that!

:D

[duffer]

No Adam Sandler fans?

Plutonium.

[Sensualips]

Does anyone have any words that they just enjoy saying, for whatever reason? If they're not in English, please provide a definition, but yeah.

For instance: uvula. Uvula. :)
*bamf*

Funny story .....I had mine removed. Whe I told this guy at work he asked me..."for birth control?"

[Mockingbird]

Onomatopoeia

BANG!

[Mockingbird]

Vagina

Isn't that the secret ingredient in V8?

[Kitchen Wench]

Isn't that the secret ingredient in V8?

I thought that was vegina.

[Sami41]

Subsequently and liquidity are two of my favorite words to say. I really never liked the word knee.

~S

[Cicero]

Inimitable

[An Arky]

I'm surprised and disappointed that it's taken this long for someone to mention

FUCK!!!

C'mon now, say it with me! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!

:D

[hill o beans]

superfluous.

[ccwaterback]

zither

rococo

[asterion]

zamboni

[Annie-Xmas]

Puce. My absolutely most favorite word in the universe.

[Shirt Ninja 13]

I'm down with that!

:D

word.

meat.
doom.
defacate.
sha fa (Mandarin for "sofa")
gao ding (Mandarin, again. I think this one means "all done")
goggles!

*bamf*

[Shirt Ninja 13]

I'm surprised and disappointed that it's taken this long for someone to mention

FUCK!!!

C'mon now, say it with me! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!

:D


Fuck's just such a great word, cause it's got the "Ffff" and the "Uh" and the "KUH!"
F-kah!


:-D
*bamf*

[Mariemarie]

negligible

[Lsura]

Conundrum


It just....rolls off the tongue.

[JoeSki]

superfluous.

That's a good one.

I'd also like to add a term some online friends created: Srocky srocky!

[ivylass]

For some reason I like Madagascar.

It just trips off the tongue.

[Tuco]

Wankel

:sniggers:

[squeegee]

Mitsubishi
Homogenous
Milieu

[seosamh]

Botulism

[hajario]

Serendipity

[cogitator]

Does anyone have any words that they just enjoy saying, for whatever reason?


ointment: oooiiiiiinnnntment

moist: mmmmmmoiiiiii st

tincture: TINK!~sure

[pool]

Rectify in a cool james earl jones voice

[Chefguy]

::in a Bela Lugosi voice::

Frankaboli! (Italian for 'postage stamps')

Terpsichorean

Sesquipedalian

Octagenarian

Bullshit! (like George Carlin says it)

[«Ðëëp¤F®ïêd»™]

sibilance - but you gotta drawl it and repeat it like you are checking a michrophone before a rock show.

cunnilingus - has anyone mentioned this? Come on you know you love it! (Colonel Angus also works.)

ohh ya, for some reason I have always loved the word sentient...

[rowrrbazzle]

spoken quickly with a British accent- "A charitable institution in Hartfordshire" (thanks to Stephen Fry).

[melondeca]

This thread makes me think of my high school speech teacher. She was about 400 lbs., shopped exclusively on QVC, and had painted on eyebrows that were not always in the same place. Anyway, her favorite word was lugubrious because, "It just feels so good to say. Lugubrious: it just rolls off the tongue. Lugubrious, lugubrious, everyone say it with me...lugubrious." I hear that word now and cringe.
Personally, my favorite word is wooly.

[Ponder Stibbons]

Wankle rotory engine.

I know, I know, it's a phrase, not a word ...

[Jenaroph]

Bellicose. I get a mental picture of some great big Santa-Clause-sized guy yelling at people.

[Cicero]

stentorian.

There is no such word as verocative. But there should be.

[bittersweet]

quintessential

modicum

umlaut

Whee! :D

[Ludovic]

Praseodymium.
Lolita Davidovich (okay, two words, but HH did think Lolita was euphonious.)
Liechtenstein.

[Burrido]

Daquiri
Solilique (have no idea if that's spelled correctly)

[Telperien]

obstreperous
audacious
voluptuous
verdant
floofy
fanatic

I love words!

[violacrane]

peripatetic

piquant

picaresque

and that's only the Ps

[Greywolf73]

Rumspringa.

Rumspringahhhhhh.

But you have to make sure to get the odd "spfringah" sound in there to get the full effect. It's like the vocal equivilent of a Slinky.

[Runs With Scissors]

Smock. Smock smock smock smock smock.

You and Hobbes...

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I like to rhyme fajita with vagina.

[Katisha]

My new favorite phrase is "magnanimous as Agamemnon" -- although one has very few chances to say this unless one is playing Fluellen in Henry V. ;)

(Speaking of fun phrases to say that occur in Henry V, "Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester" is also fun to say. Actually, most English place names are, now that I think of it...)

Others...

medulla oblongata
plume-plucked
squib
Lollardy
eschatology
revelry
quibble
lascivious
epithalamium
salubrious
particularities
fascicles

Oh, and the phrase "the multitudinous seas incarnadine." Mmmmmm, Shakespeare...

[Chimpy]

I've always had a soft spot for the word Mongolia, but you have to yodel it, like this:

MONgo-------------------------------------------------------lia-----

[SpectBrain]

I'll drink to 'zymurgy'

[Bewildebeest]

Sagacity - the complement that sounds like an insult!

[Spudo]

Box and weasel. Mostly weasel though, especially if I think of a weasel doing something as I say the word.

[ccwaterback]

flounce

serendipity

razzmatazz

titillate

[Morgyn]

Lately my favourite word has been crepuscular. No idea why.

And I've always been astonished that the English language can contain words that sound as different from each other as sleep and clock. I mean, think about it. Sleep is this long, drawn out sound, soft, with a little sibilance at the start. And clock is this short, abrupt little sound, hard all the way through, practically.

[bashere]

My new favorite phrase is "magnanimous as Agamemnon" -- although one has very few chances to say this unless one is playing Fluellen in Henry V. ;)
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My old favorite phrase is "like proud Achilles sulking in his tent". There are surprisingly few times when this phrase seems appropriate, though. This phrase replaces "Damn your sir, damn your eyes", which in turn replaces "You go too far, sir, too far by half", and indeed every phrase that implies too much by 50% (e.g. "too clever by half").

Words that are fun to say

Expectorate

Elocution

Opal

Susurrus

Disingenuous

Byronic

Genuflect

[c_carol]

Are proper names allowed? Because I really like to say "Cullowhee", which is the name of the little town where I went to college. "Cullowheeeeee" -- see, it's fun!

[ccwaterback]

Are proper names allowed? Because I really like to say "Cullowhee", which is the name of the little town where I went to college. "Cullowheeeeee" -- see, it's fun!


Wisconsin has some fun town names.

Wauwatosa

Sheboygan

Prairie Du Chen

Oshkosh

Manitowoc

Muskego

[saramamalana]

Smock made me think of grommet. Grommet grommet grommet. Man that's fun!

And now, a story. Back in my sophomore year of college I took a class called Voice For the Actor. One of our assignments was to compose a list of "delicious" words, like this thread, meaning words you like to say or like how they roll off the tongue. There was an older woman in the class, Ramona, who was not quite right. She never quite understood what was going on, and we all suspected she might be homeless because of the way she dressed. Anyway, we get to the due date of the assignment and we're going around the room sharing our lists. We get to Ramona and she begins reading: "apples, pears, hot chocolate, peaches, plums..." Our professor stops her. Yeah, Ramona took the 'delicious' aspect all too literally. We all had to keep from laughing.

[Sternvogel]

For some reason I like Madagascar.

It just trips off the tongue.

As does its capital, Antananarivo.

The Illinois women's basketball team recently had a player named Aminata Yanni (http://www.wtvo.com/Global/story.asp?S=2005414&nav=7k8EQP6d), whose name lends itself to being vocalized to the tune of that Mah Na Mah Na (http://www.wtvo.com/Global/story.asp?S=2005414&nav=7k8EQP6d) ditty.

I once worked with someone who got the biggest kick of saying "brouhaha" in a cackling, about-to-crack-open-a-cold-one tone.

[Already in Use]

BALDERDASH!

...spoken like a 19th-century industrialist with jowls. I once started a thread on the subject, which promptly died.

[lynxie]

Pistachio.

[nocturnal_tick]

As you'll notice I have the humour of an 8 year old but these always tickle my fancy:

panties and phalanges

It's like they're meant to be naughty....but there not.....panties

[coop]

svelte

[Landshark]

defenestrate

[ccwaterback]

thirty-three and a third

sphincter

pollywog

croak

mooncalf

stucco

[Johnny L.A.]

I like saying "aliminum" backwards. "Munimula!"

"Shock and awe". I watched the attack on Baghdad live, and it didn't really look shocking or awesome; but it's fun to say fast. "Shockenaw!" "Shocknaw!" "Leonard James Shockenaw!"

I think my favourite word is "plummet".

[Larry Mudd]

I like petcock, Antwerp, and unguent.

[Fuji Kitakyusho]

bludgeon

[squeegee]

Adenoid

Anechoic

Bombastic

Cannonical

Conniption

Contrapuntal

Indigenous

Lancastershire (because it's not pronounced even close to how it's spelled)

Plenum

Uvula


My SO contributes: "discombobulated"

[squeegee]

Shuriken

"No you can't!"

"Shuriken!"

[Julius Henry]

I remember seeing this list on Letterman, but I didn't realize it was 10 years ago. I found it archived here (http://www.echonyc.com/~barnhart/daveware/top-ten-1994).


---> January 5, 1994 <---


Top Ten Words That Sound Great When Spoken By James Earl Jones

**As read by James Earl Jones himself!**

10. Mellifluous
9. Verisimilitude
8. Guppy
7. Stolichnaya
6. Boutros-Boutros Ghali
5. Neo-Synephrine
4. Pinhead
3. Mujibur and Sirajul
2. Heebie-Jeebies
1. Oprah

[Yllaria]

tintinabulation

spiffy

and I'm sorry, but fuck is just too short, too abrupt - it's like the sound of chucking a rock at a rusty corrugated iron wall - you have to add it to something, like

fuckitall

that's the sound of release, there: fuckitall

[Silver Fire]

Ganglion, as in cysts.

[PhalPhoto]

Mojave

Bacillus subtilus

Aurora borealis