What words do you like that you don't really use.

[meggymoo]

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[Ellbell]

egregious

ostensibly

'polysyndeton' and 'hendecasyllable' (can't think of a reason why my dds would want to use those though - I use them in my poetry classes, but they are lovely words)

My dds both claim that babies are 'absolutely adorable', and I have no idea where they got this expression from, but you're right, it is cute when a 3-y-o uses it!

[colditz]

"Apoplectic with rage"
Gibbering
Boulderdash

[saadia]

I've taught 3 and a half year old ds1 all about pentagons and hexagons hoping he'll randomly drop them into conversations. Also taught him about the gibbous moon (in between a half moon and a full moon) which he likes talking about.

[WigWamBam]

hyperbole
scintilla
tintinnabulation
timbre
hemidemisemiquaver
floccinaucinihilipilification

[starlover]

i once looked after a little boy who told me
"i simply love broccoli, it's glorious"

[rickman]

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[fishfinger]

gosh

s o 1930s

[meggymoo]

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[Mama5]

Eponomous

[fishfinger]

think a htreasd liek this is hwo I became codswallop

[starlover]

ff... i have used gosh on 3 threads today!

[JoolsToo]

Ellbell - you're not a LOG fan by any chance?

am loving

horrid
crumbs
disagreeable

[meggymoo]

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[happymerryberries]

Vulgar
Pedantic
impertinant

I use these almost every day to kids who have no idea what they mean. So they get to extend their vocabulary as well as get a telling of!

[Ellbell]

LOG, Joolstoo? [confused emoticon]

Attempted to explain 'democracy' to my dd (5) today. (She asked me to explain Guardian cartoon... hmmmm a toughie!)

Same dd knows what an apostrophe is and what it's for, but calls it a 'retostroffy'

(It's not an English word, but - going back to the poetic theme - I love and adore the word 'sdrucciolo' and always teach my students what a 'sdrucciolo line of poetry is' (a line where the stress is on the antepenultimate syllable, hence a normal hendecasyllabic line gets to have 12 syllables instead of 11.... are you all with me?) just so I can say the word 'sdrucciolo' a few times (and even though the poets I teach don't actually use sdrucciolo lines). I know, I know... I am one sad individual!

[Ellbell]

PS Did you like the way I got the words 'antepenultimate' and 'hendecasyllabic' into one sentence there (not to mention the glorious - and quite possibly egregious - 'sdrucciolo'!!!

Mellifluous
Serendipity

Gosh [sic] there are so many simply divine [sic] words....

[Ellbell]

PS Did you like the way I got the words 'antepenultimate' and 'hendecasyllabic' into one sentence there (not to mention the glorious - and quite possibly egregious - 'sdrucciolo'!!!

Mellifluous
Serendipity

Gosh [sic] there are so many simply divine [sic] words....

[TinyGang]

Flibertijibbert(sp?) My Grandmas description of someone who 'ought to know better..'

[milge]

Antidisestablishmentarian. Maybe it will come back into vogue soon?

[meggymoo]

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[JoolsToo]

Ellbell - LOG is League of Gentlemen - there was a very funny sketch involving 'egregious'
but obviously that's not where you got it from!

[Ellbell]

JT, no, haven't seen that. But 'egregious' is still a fab word.

Meggymoo, how about restoring 'gay' to its original meaning? I've been reading Enid Blyton with my dds (The Faraway Tree) and there are some spiffing words in there...!

[Twiglett]

discombobulate

[jampots]

i like "chasm" and "insular"