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My votes go to: anacampserote pantomathoctothorpepleonasm and dipseticif i'd've caught up to this thread earlier, i'd've nominated "aetataureate" ( http://wordsmith.org/board/Cat=&Board=words&Number=26502), which was the word coined by author Michael Chabon (along with 'cheminations', which also sparked a bit of a discussion) in _The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay_.
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hey jazzo, do you think the 'gobsmacked' thread is going to qualify? :)
It's a thread, ain't it?
BTW, I'm happy that we've had a few more voters, but seeing as this Guest AWAD is basically going to speak for the whole board (yikes!), it would probably--no, definitely--be a good idea for us to have a larger percentage give their opinions on what threads are the best representation of what we are. Some of our most frequent and beloved members haven't even voted! You know who you are: (Jackie, Faldage, Anna, CK, bel, Helen, wow, dr. bill, stales, Kieva, Bean, Bingley, Angel, musick, Rubrick, etc. etc. etc.)
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How can you ask a parent which among the children is the favorite? This one's the cutest, this one's the smartest, this one's the most sensitive, this one's the most successful, this one's the most dignified, this one's the most mature, this one's... you get the point. Even if selecting a favorite is possible (certainly it's not diplomatic) it's liable to change from day to day and mood to mood.
Therefore many abstain from voting.
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Good grief, JazzO, thank you for all that work!!
1. Triboluminescence
2. Enantiodromic --both of these just sound
intriguing, as well as having
wonderful and unusual definitions.
3. Piepowder ,for the same reason.
4. Pleonasm personal, pleasurable memories! :-)
5. Pantomath Hi, sweet Nicholas! A handy word to
know.
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Wofa, it's just a guest awad. It's not like you're sentencing the rest of the words to death or anything. 
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Oh man, oh man--it just struck me how so many of these words are multi-syllabic. I just saw a lovely, simple word in a post by CK that I bet people would be interested in: sistren. And tsuwm, what was that word that had something to do with either the left or the right side of a plowed furrow (or something like that)? Would that qualify?
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Good God, is sistren a real word? Have to look it up. Jazzo, good list, with or without the later offerings from our wordy brethren and sistren. I really don't care which words get put up for the guest AWAD slot, it's all good grist to the mill. Good job! 
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Good God  , you mean it might NOT be a real word?? CK! How could you! Leading me down the garden path like that, where you KNOW I will follow with bells on!
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OK, Jazzo, here are my votes:
octothorp, pleonasm, mysterium, hermetic, pantomath
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My Five Suggestions are...triboluminescence: Sometimes I say "triboluminescence" just to be saying it. "What did you say?", they ask. "Triboluminescence.", I answer. cornobbled: When you are, you know what it means. empath: Oooh. I just love words full of almost meaning. monosemy: Yes! A word meaning the absence of ambiguity that is itself a bit ambiguious. Yes. mysteriuim: Mmm...there's somthing about this word, uh, like, uh, like it's, you know, a mystery. pantomath: What if someone called you a pantomath and you didn't know what it was? Yeah, yeah, I know, they let me pick six. It's only fair, I love words more than you people.
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