I am sitting at my daughter's Friday night gymnastics class, thinking about words. For no reason at all, here is a list of 78 words I really enjoy saying out loud. Do me a favor? As you read the list, say them aloud. Then add a comment with a word or two that YOU like to say.
Abergavenny
Aberystwyth
Avoirdupois
Behoove
Blagojevich
Boisterous
Cotillion
Chitzen Itza
Clump
Defenestrate
Doofus
Drabble
Elephantine
Erg
Exigencies
Fallacious (just ‘cause it sounds dirty)
Glutinous
Grandiose
Grunt
Hoi poloi
Hornswaggled
Hue
Ibb
Injudicious
Iteration
Jacobin
Japonica
Jiggle
Kipper
Kinesthetic
Klaxon
Lachrymiform
Libidinous
Lipid
Macrophage
Massapequa
Moile
Nascent
Niggling
Noisome
Oast
Oblation
Oracular
Penumbral
Phylogenetic
Plebiscite
Quark
Quartz
Quotidian
Ralph
Regulus
Rhomboid
Sacerdotal
Schenectady
Sibilant
Tachometer
Talus
Titular
Umbrage
Urdu
Uvula
Valparaiso
Vitiate
Void
Whelp
Whinging
Wizened
Xebec
Xenophobe
Xylem
Ya-hoo (must be spoken with a long A sound)
Yaw
Yurt
Zaftig
Zuppa
Zygosis
Thwart. I wrote a headline once that included the words "thwart court ruling" and went around for the rest of the day saying "thwart court, thwart court, thwart court."
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