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What is your favorite word in the English language?

Townie just killing it with the GRE words.
 
Gazebo is by far my favorite word to say.
 
Cacophony is cooler.
 
both better than diaphony or polyphony or symphony
 
Music has the greatest [sometimes loan-]words.

Ostinato
Bolero
Coda
 
great british bake off taught me English people say the word "oregano" like a bunch of fucking idiots
 
ImTheCaptain said:
great british bake off taught me English people say the word "oregano" like a bunch of fucking idiots
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watched the episode last night where they made pita bread and they pronounced it "pit-uh" (instead of "peet-ah"). Had no idea what they were going to be making until they did the cut-away to paul and mary discussing a good pita bread.
the ory-GONE-oh is silly-sounding.
 
Can we start a favorite word in a foreign language next? Mine is boule de neige.
 
I liked when Skip Prosser told Stan Cotton that Josh Howard was 'recalcitrant.' I went and looked it up. I used it on a PIP for a problem employee I have just today.

subterfuge is one I like to throw in from time to time.

cunt is useful if the timing is right
 
Samuel Wait on this board introduced the term "surreptitiously" to me several years back (seriously pissing off the other side) and I've enjoyed it ever since.
 
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