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Sep 15, 2013 - 3:59 PM
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Tall Guy
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I have some favourites, Joan -
Obloquy - it sounds lovely: ob-luh-kwee, try it. Rolls off the tongue beautifully. I slip it into conversations occasionally, when the meaning's clear from the context.
Lubricious - a relatively new favourite. Sounds exactly the same as it means, nothing more, nothing less.
Apprise - not only for the sound, but because so many people get it mixed up with appraise: "He asked for an update, so I'll appraise him in the morning" - no you won't, you'll apprise him.
Rebecca - always a favourite name, and then I went and married one! And never "Becky", of which I wasn't ever terribly fond, always "Becca".
And a group of words, the names of sails on boats - spritsail, foretopsail and foretopmast staysail, foretopgallant sail, spanker, maintopsail, maintopmast staysail, mizzen topmast staysail, studding sail (or stuns'l) - many others. Just conjures up a glorious history of Nelson and HMS Victory, of arduous voyages of discovery, and Patrick O'Brian's series of Aubrey/Maturin books, which is one of the wonders of the modern world.
Others will come to mind, and I may add them later...
TG
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I've come up with a few word combos which I find enjoyable to say out loud (or, more usually, quietly to myself, lol) such as:
Fanfare for Love
Lime Illumination
I Be Ivy Jivy
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Sep 15, 2013 - 6:05 PM
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DeputyRiley
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Hi Joan, this is off topic from your thread post but I wanted to say thank you for the kind words you posted in another thread today; you know which thread I am talking about. I just saw your post in that thread and after a long day at work, coming home very tired, reading it really made me feel good and I appreciated what you said very much. I'm glad you started this thread so I could just send out a quick thank you for your kind comment!
Okay, I'll comment on this thread too!
I like to say "fair enough" a lot -- I got it from Lost because it seems like characters said that to each other very often and I liked it.
I like to opt for occasional clichéd British slang: bloody hell, or bugger (as exclamations).
A lot of my favorite expressions or words are those that I've taken from films or television shows that I really like. I often use Friends and Seinfeld phrases and words appropriated for whatever conversation I'm in. Or maybe something from Dazed and Confused, or Clueless, or any other favorites. Sometimes it'll be just something really simple, like the way one time on Friends Chandler says "okay" while he bashfully laughs at the same time. "Hokay!"
I have no idea if that's the kind of thing you were going for in this thread! Basically I steal my commonly used words from those that, in my opinion, uttered them the best or the most memorably.
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Sep 15, 2013 - 7:22 PM
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joan hue
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I like saying, "I be Ivy Jivey," with its natural rhythm. Cool mantra.
Zooba, well, ahh, err, unmmum... Maybe some other guy can help you find a more successful approach.
DR, you're welcome. I too LOVE British slang. Loved Spike from Buffy series when he called everyone Bloody Wankers, which is probably "inappropriate" but it sounds neat.
Timmer, I can think of a bunch of words I hate, but they would get me thrown off the board...maybe.
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Moist! Great when describing cakes, otherwise I see where you're coming from. 
