What is your favourite word in the Americano/English language?

symphonix said:
Americano?
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Sorry, I wasn't dismissing Anzac English (or Sud African etc.). It's just that so much English spoken these days uses Americano expressions. Try Bill Bryson's 'Made In America' (probably available at Fullers in Hobart). It makes interesting reading.

Curiously though, some über Brits these days find it fashionable to try and speak Oz. It never comes off of course. I think it's an envy thing.

symphonix said:
Gumption. Nobody uses it anymore.
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I don't have this. I can't spell either.
 
what ever happened to the word fop? Funny word. Favorite? Let me dwell on that a moment. Very tough question.
 
A bit dour to say the least, but how about 'SCHADENFREUDE' (pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others)?

Caveat; OK, not exactly Angleski/Americano/Anzac, but a popular word in neswpapers, such as the London Times, Irish Times and the Washington Post.
 
Gaggle maybe? It's definitely not my favorite or oddest word, but that's something that I see in my newspapers a lot..

I see it used as in "A gaggle of geese was shot by a Washington man of 37." I find it a bit redundant to add the phrase "of geese", because gaggle itself means "a flock of geese".

EDIT: Aha! I think I know my favorite word. It's short, sweet, and means only one thing: cis.
 
I don't get it. If you start including German words ("Schadenfreude")... What's this about? Just "your favourite word of any language"? :)
 
No, schadenfreude is a German word that's been hijacked by the the English language. Most languages steal words from other languages.
 
Yep. While it's probably found its way into dictionaries that doesn't make it an "English" word. Just like Zeitgeist and kindergarden (although the latter somehow got a "d" instead of a "t" in garden), it's simply a German word. We have lotsa English words in the German language.
 
Ah, well the smiley was just a little blue square with a "?" in it here, I blame the revision of the site! ;-)

As for favorite word, today I am particularly fond of 'fettle' don't know way.

... my Mac appears to be in fine fettle today.
 
The word "Love" has gone many many miles. I don't know if it my favorite but it's a good "classic"
 
rhisiart said:
Come to think of it, isn't 'lurk' a great word?
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I am quite fond of it myself ;-)

rhisiart said:
That's easy for you to say!
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I have been waiting for some comment on it but I don't think many people recognize what my sig says or where it is from. I blame the sorry state of cultural education in the English speaking world!

Edit: And now no signatures show up. Man will this confuse people. My signature was:
Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.
 
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