Just found a new word. Got me thinking ........

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

What's your favourite word?

Mine tended to fluctuate but has now settled on haberdashery. This will be a temporary but happy partnership.

As an aside the new word I found which prompted this post I have now forgotten. I thought I'd saved it but hadn't. Bit of a shame because I really wanted to share it with you. As some sort of recompense I offer you the word 'Clagnuts'. I hadn't known of it's existence until I was in a relatives house. I stood there and heard my uncle say ' look at the clagnuts on his arse' whilst referring to his own dog. I looked at said dog and realised my uncle was talking about the bits of shit stuck to the dogs arse hairs, I'm still trying to work it all out!

[feral chile]

Together.

it reminds me of an acid trip - this word popped into my mind, and I seemed to feel my brain processing it on many different levels. And then I concluded that it's the most important world in the English language. If not the most vital human concept/adaptive strategy.

[t8yman]

I've always been quite fond of cloche.

and intervention.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Together.

it reminds me of an acid trip - this word popped into my mind, and I seemed to feel my brain processing it on many different levels. And then I concluded that it's the most important world in the English language. If not the most vital human concept/adaptive strategy.

[feral chile]

Unfortunately we are not together though. Not in sufficient numbers anyway.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

There was a load of new words that appeared this week were there not, for things that weren't previously named? Stuff like the smell after rain, and the noise your stomachmakes.

[grumpyhack]

A great book is The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd. All sorts of wonderful 'new' words to describe things.

A few examples here http://liff.hivemind.net/

Edited February 23, 2013 by grumpyhack

[Ruwise]

One of my favourite words is Autumnal. I just love the way it sounds.

[Thearg]

Two words really,conjured up to describe how we felt on our acid comedown,

Spangled and Mankin.

Edited February 23, 2013 by Thearg

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

cadastral

callipygous

[Spindles]

Pinion. The point around which change rests.

[Com Truise]

Obnoxious, apparently I use this constantly

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

A great book is The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd. All sorts of wonderful 'new' words to describe things.

A few examples here http://liff.hivemind.net/

[Essex_George]

What's your favourite word?

Mine tended to fluctuate but has now settled on haberdashery. This will be a temporary but happy partnership.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Haberdashery is also my favourite word. Makes me happy see it and also to say it

[Kyelo]

No, unfortunately we've evolved through competition as well as cooperation, and tribal rivalry seems to have survived as an extremely effective strategy

[grumpyhack]

I have a word that really irritates - well.

Whenever reporters are interviewed in two-ways (the reporter at the scene talking to a studio anchor) the reporter nearly always begins the response with: "Well...."

It's almost like a mechanical kick start to get the response going but is completely meaningless. Watch a few news programmes and look out for the 'Wells'

[feral chile]

Why unfortunately? Without competition absolutely nothing would exist as we know it.

[mandolin]

Malarky.

Apostrophe.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

I know it is crude but I love fuckwit.

[Kyelo]

because we compete in a tribal way for resources, instead of sharing it out as a species. Cooperastion and competition have both been successful evolutionary strategies, group effort produces better results as it makes us less vulnerable to predators, able to combine forces to hunt/forage/work etc.

But it's led to in-group/out-group competition - racism, prejudice, discrimination and inequality, as we pursue social or nationalistic goals depending on our group identity..

[feral chile]

Not disagreeing with you on cooperation but competition to me is incredibly positive. Without it everything would be stale and bland, very little would move forward and develop. Heck the sites beloved Glastonbury wouldn't be what it is without it.

[grumpyhack]

I've lived in Wales more than half my life, although born in England and have adopted the country to the point when Wales play England at rugby I cheer for Wales.

However I've never got to speak the Welsh language and to my shame only know a smattering of Welsh.

But my favourite Welsh word is 'caws' - pronounced kouse, a bit like scouse - which is Welsh for cheese.

I remember it because 'caws' or cheese comes from cows.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Not disagreeing with you on cooperation but competition to me is incredibly positive. Without it everything would be stale and bland, very little would move forward and develop. Heck the sites beloved Glastonbury wouldn't be what it is without it.

[Kyelo]

How do you work out that last bit? I don't think Glastonbury competes with any other festival in the festival market.