poll: your favorite and least favorite words

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I am working on writing relevant titles instead of clever ones. Bear with me!

What is your favorite word? What is your least favorite word? Names count.

Respond somewhere I will read it, and I will share the results — and my choices — in a week.

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About Halsted M. Bernard

Halsted, a/k/a cygnoir, does stuff with words. Her favourite things to do with words are keeping this diary, writing stories, and organising information. She lives in Edinburgh with her husband, two cats, a few gadgets, several fountain pens, and many books.

Posted on 21 Apr 2010 in Linklog
  • http://wildcabbage.net Eyebee

    My least favorite word is ‘Awesome’. Why? Because it’s such a completely overused superlative, that it really ceases to have real meaning in my view.

    A one is a lifetime experience, perhaps the view from a mountain, or to go sky-diving, or swim with dolphins, can surely be awesome. Using it to describe everyday things with such regularity is not, in my view correct usage.

    I hear it so much, that I’ve almost grown to dislike hearing the word at all!

    (By the way, I got here from Plurk, thought you might like to know!)

  • http://twitter.com/bibliophylax Ned Morrell

    As with most of my favorites, I’d have chosen something different yesterday and would veer in another direction tomorrow. Right now both “languid” and “slovenly” sound good. The letters and sounds have a good sense of fit.

    I honestly can’t think of a least favorite word. “Unimaginative”, perhaps, he said archly.

  • chatty

    What width nib is that? I wish I had nice penmanship!!

  • 5m4llP0X

    Favorite: Cactus. Cacti are easily some of the greatest and least respected plants on the planet.
    Least: Phone. I really dislike them, especially when working in a call service industry.

  • http://wry.me Darius Bacon

    Like: ‘minion’. Did you know ‘information’ has the anagram ‘minion of art’? I didn’t until the other day while working on anagram poems.

    Dislike: ‘moron’. It came up too much in the same effort.