Saturday, 29 March 2008

Favourite Words

Each Saturday, the Guardian's Weekend magazine features a Q&A with a moderately well-known person. One of the questions asked is, "What is your favourite word?"

Reading this always makes me think about what I would say if someone asked me to name my favourite word. In fact, choosing a word has been more difficult than I thought it would be, and so far I have not yet picked one favourite. I have, however, narrowed it down to five (in no particular order):
  1. Schadenfreude
  2. Robust
  3. Serendipity
  4. Onomatopoeia
  5. Bollocks
How about you? I am very interested in what words our readers pick as their favourites. Please share your favourite words with us in the comments.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've always been fond of these two words:

1) Pundit
2) Quagmire


Jeff in Connecticut

Anonymous said...

My favourite word has to be gumption.

Anonymous said...

1. kerfluffle
2. moist

okay, just kidding about 'moist'