What is your favorite English word?

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2. thrombolytics is a fun word to say

3. [removed]

4. Smorgasbord

5. Chapel.

6. Bromeliad.

7. Cunt.

   Great for every occasion.

8. Defenestrate.

9. cliché

10. Skullduggery

11. Tuberculosis sounds cool

12. Palindrome

13. I love the word THOUGH. The way you can use it as an insult that just would never translate… “She looked good, though.” No she didnt!

14. The word: shit.

    Endless possibilities, depending on the context you use it. It can take any meaning. Like the difference between “It’s shit.” and “It’s **the** shit.”

15. Fuck

16. Fuck

17. *Moist*. Because it sounds so moissssss-tahhhh

18. Gotta be the versatility of ‘fuck’

19. Fuck, without a shadow of a doubt

20. Curiosity

21. Gumption

22. Lithosphere

23. Zugzwang

24. Either rapscallion or skedaddle

25. « Water ». Not a native English speaker here. In my country, we are taught pure, « British English », usually with a posh Oxford type of accent. Therefore I was taught to pronounce it something like « wotaa ». Then I moved to the US to earn my Master’s degree… in hydrology! As you can imagine, the word « water » was used all the time in all my classes. Let me tell you: it took me a whole year to pronounce it correctly and flawlessly with this thick, hot-potatoe-in-mouth, scratch-my-throat Western US accent.
    Then it’s become my favorite word to say, and water is life too , so I love « water ».

26. Dilapidated.

27. Vapid

28. yeet.

29. Perspicacity

30. defenestration.

    The action of throwing someone out of a window.

    “death by defenestration has a venerable history”

31. Worcestershire

    Because it is funny to watch people try and say it out loud

32. Somniferous

33. No

    I use it all the time.

34. Kerfuffle, rapscallion, linguistics. Just fun words.

35. Triskaidekaphobia

36. Piss. Pretty flexible and not as overused as fuck.

37. Antidisestablishmentarianism