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What is your favourite word?

  • 08-11-2009 08:07PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭


    As the title says, what is your favourite word?

    My favourite is gick, always makes me laugh


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Greetings, new thread! Make yourself at home! Tea?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Floccinaucinihilipilification.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭Fintomiginto


    Sarky wrote: »
    Greetings, new thread! Make yourself at home! Tea?


    No thanks


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,575 ✭✭✭✭PFJSplitter


    Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs (Silicosis)

    [Word 'invented' in 1935]:
    "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis succeeded electrophotomicrographically as the longest word in the English language recognized by the National Puzzlers' League at the opening session of the organization's 103rd semi-annual meeting held yesterday at the Hotel New Yorker. The puzzlers explained that the forty-five-letter word is the name of a special form of silicosis caused by ultra-microscopic particles of silica volcanic dust...."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭number10a


    It's in Irish, but it's my favourite word of all. Plubarnaigh - a verb. It's the sound that porridge makes when it's boiling.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,982 ✭✭✭445279.ie


    Don't know really but I quite like gick :D

    laughed out loud when I read it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭useurename


    balderdash


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,706 ✭✭✭Matt Holck


    zipper


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭Bubblefett


    fluffernutter


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,624 ✭✭✭NoQuarter


    cat


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,700 ✭✭✭✭holly1


    Numb nuts!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    Cherry.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    Filth


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,448 ✭✭✭✭joes girls


    zealot!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Anti-disestablishmentarianism

    but really

    cupboard


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,134 ✭✭✭homah_7ft


    Count.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 456 ✭✭GO'S


    feen


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭Fintomiginto


    holly1 wrote: »
    Numb nuts!

    Thats 2 words, your disqualified.

    I hope your happy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,448 ✭✭✭✭joes girls


    million .....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭dublin 16 lad


    Frothy


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    Gheobhaidh


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,743 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    number

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    poppycock


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭Valmont


    homah_7ft wrote: »
    Count.

    That is very rude.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭Valmont


    Loquacious. Really though, it reminds me of my favourite book.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    Love.


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