Hi all, I'm new to the forums. I've spent some time browsing and I fear for what this will do to my already poor productivity.
I chose my username because it occurred to me one day that "snout" was a very fun word to say... try it a few times; it's addictive! Then the other day my husband commented on a new freckle on my nose and I grinned because freckle's such a great word too. Of course, I realized I was the proud owner of a freckled snout!!! Yay!!!
What other words do you just love to say out loud? [edited last sentence from "...love the sound of?": better watch my grammar here!]
Welcome freckled snout. I think one of my favourite words is the Indonesian malapetaka meaning disaster. I assume it comes from Portuguese, but that's just a guess. Annastrophic?
Good to have you with us, f-s: I hope you will derive as much enjoyment from this board as I do.
I'm afraid I can't agree with you over the word "snout," though. To me, it has unfortunate connotations, being the prison cant for tobacco. However, couplling it with "freckled" does ameliorate its impact considerably and can be argued to have a pleasingly oxymoronic effect. (Assuming that one does, as I do, think freckles are really pleasant additions to ones face.)
There are few words that I do not like to say out loud. I love words and I love the sound of words, even when they make no sense to me - I love to hear Italian spoken, for instance, although I don't understand the language.
But currently, I like to have the chance to say "Prĉmonstratensian," - a fairly obscure sect of monks, offshoots of the Cistercian order, I think. There is a whole string of ruined monasteries of that orde round here, so I do get the chance, from time to time, to indulge that particular whim.
Hi Bex, and welcome. It's an engaging nuthouse here - enjoy yourself! I like the sound snout, too. And freckles, despite what my darlin' daughter thinks, are what every man I know loves looking at
I love the sound of so many words - some of them even exist already
somewhere in the long distant past I saw a movie (I swear), a western, wherein a Mexican lad walks up to a collapsed, exhausted animal and speaks this one line: "Are you dead, horse?" I cannot place this movie, nor do I ever hope to (although it may have had Marlon Brando it it :).
Welcome, Frex! b96 was looking for a similar thread... well, I hunted down the anti-thread: http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=13548&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5 As for me, I derive untold enjoyment from triptych. Don't get nearly enough opportunity to use that one in conversation. My small attempt at bringing us back out of the gutter... Shhh, y'all! You'll scare her away!
I realized I was the proud owner of a freckled snout!!!
I immediately thought of the character in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and began to wonder if you also have a freckled Flute, or a freckled Bottom? Gutter police, don't blame me, Shakespeare wrote it!
What other words do you just love to say out loud?
Welcome to the board freckled_snout!...Great name!
My all-time favorite oratorical word was an Amerindian name I picked up when my sister's family lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania... Monongahela . It's the river that flows out of West Virginia through Western Pennsylvania and then connects with the Allegheny at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio. Monongahela...See...I can't just say it once!
Whenever I hear the word Monongahela, I think of a song the wonderful Beatrice Lillie sang which began "Come, oh come to Pittsburgh". The only other words I can remember are "Where the Monongahela flows...". Speaking of Lady Peal (sp?), does anyone know if any of her performances are on CD?
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Gutter police, don't blame me, Shakespeare wrote it!
