I have a list of favourite words and phrases I’ve been keeping as a thread on twitter dot com. Since lately twitter has been getting worse at an alarming rate and we’ve finally become able to mostly stay away from it. We decided that the list should have a new home in our website.
Here it is
- Viridiplantae
- Apricity
- Bodily
- Lapis Lazuli
- titillating
- Eschewing
- Facsimile
- Simulacra
- skeumorph
- Albeit
- Vis-a-vis
- Nominally
- Ostensibly
- Namely
- subterfuge
- Miscellania
- Somewhat neological, not universally accepted as its own word
- Defenestration
- menester
- This one’s in Spanish
- Aplomb
- remuneratively
- paraphernalia
- Germaine
- Milieu
- I always read this word in a sort of espaçais where I thought it meant “mi” “lieu” my place. So I looked up the etymology and it’s “mid” “lieu” the place one finds oneself in the middle of.
- Inasmuch
- Hypernym
- I was so hype when I learn this word because it is the word that describes the relationship of a rectangle to a square. The thing that’s a superset of the item in question. its hypernym.
- Craft
- Kibosh
- material safety data sheets
- diatomaceous earth
- despawn
- dude
- anhydrous
- faerie
- this one should be fairly obvious, but we want to note our preference specifically for the “faerie” spelling. I think we like diphthongs in general and “ae” feels a more rarefied diphthong than “ai”. and we like “ie” variations of names that can be “ie” or “y”.
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