What's your favourite English words

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Tintinnabulation.

ephemeral, ethereal, arcane, esoteric. something seems mystical about these words.

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?