# What's your favourite English words **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 13, 2011, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-english-words/588850 "2011-07-13T09:20:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-english-words/588850/21 "2011-07-15T00:49:02Z")
defenestrate ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-english-words/588850/22 "2011-07-15T01:11:38Z")
Tintinnabulation. ---
**Author:** ![chowching](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chowching](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowching)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-english-words/588850/23 "2011-07-15T13:04:48Z")
ephemeral, ethereal, arcane, esoteric. something seems mystical about these words. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-english-words/588850/24 "2011-07-17T10:45:46Z")
soughing. as in, “The wind was soughing thru the treetops.” Apropos to nothing, here is the best sentence I ever (almost) read (tho she used the article “the” which I’ll leave out.) “…rain pocked the water.” How many images can you come up with? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-english-words/588850.md?page=1)