Pedants. What is your favourite word?

[Sixofone]

Mine is trundle. Although, squiffy is a close second.

Yes, I've been at the wine.

'ostensibly' is also a personal fave of mine, along with 'purportedly'..oh and 'fuck'

I like 'discombobulate' I use it all the time.

I also use 'numpty' a lot but I'm not sure that's a word I should use in pedant's corner.

robust

'Soliloquy' and 'defenestrate'.

defenestrate is a good one, I really enjoyed learning about the defenestration of Prague in school, not for the history, just for the sheer pleasure of the word.

I like serendipity because a. it's a lovely concept and b. the word sounds so nice - very satisfying, a bit zippedy doo dah.

Cantankerous. Love it.

I also like lots of legal ones like 'quash', 'overturn', 'uphold' and 'acquit'.

Ooh yes, serendipity. Serendipitous is more satisfying to say though!

Recalcitrant
Behemoth
Have used both of those recently in emails at work. Spices things up a bit

Serendipity
Turquoise
Defenestrate
Smooth

haberdashery

Solipsism. Serendipity. Pejorative. Recalcitrant. Opprobrious. Prestidigitation. Apropos.
Pertinacious pipsqueak :)

There are lots of long, grand words that are satisfying (I've posted a couple myself). But some of the loveliest are simple words that express an awful lot. It may be sentimental of me, but 'Mummy' is one of my very favourite words.

Floccinaucinihilipilification

Has this thread really been running for 4 years?
Coalesce
Ululate

Oh yes ponders, love fortuitously and use it a lot! Unlike say prestidigitation which I haven't ha a chance to whip out maybe forever.
Antimacassars. Sound so dashing. Except when my friends took the piss because i used it couldn't appreciate it

That's funny tak1ngchances!
I write reports for a living so I slip all sorts of cheeky things in...

Stonking. Vitriol. Embezzle.

I like "chunter" - it has just the right grumbly sound.

Outwith

Fripperies and whimsy are two more of my favourites.

I like a few made up words too. My daughter and I enjoy cowparsleyfication. It happens every year in the hedgerows.

Antidisestablishmentarianism. My Dad used to say it & it would make him laugh! At one time it was the longest word in the dictionary, think it's been overtaken now though by some computer term.

Velvet. Sound so rude!

a very precocious friend of my DD's used antidisestablishmentarianism once when playing hangman with me, Miranda - she was about 8 I think

she was mortified when I got it first go (the number of letters is a bit of a giveaway )

Oxymoron.
Numpty.

Ponders - But well done for getting it and showing the little brat