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Subject:	Re: What's Your Favorite English Word?! (was: What's Your Favorite German Word?!)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Date:	Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:54:16 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jeroen de Haan wrote:

Nice all those German words, although most were quite familiar for a Dutchman. So my question is:

What is your favorite (or actually most beautiful) English word?

Mine is benevolence. I heard it first (and actually only) in a song by Nick Cave; “As I sat sadly by her side”.

Jeroen

Not beautiful by any means, but I like arbitrary and capricious (only when used in tandem). And I’ve liked runcible spoon since I was a child although to this day I do not know what a runcible spoon actually is.

Maggie C.

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		Re: What's Your Favorite English Word?! (was: What's Your Favorite German Word?!)
(...) Nowadays it's that two-in-one utensil you get at Kentucky Fried Chicken. A spork. But the term was made up purely for rhyming purposes by Edward Lear, when it referred to a fork with one sharp curved prong and two wider prongs, useful for (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)

		Re: What's Your Favorite English Word?! (was: What's Your Favorite German Word?!)
Lakh. (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		What's Your Favorite English Word?! (was: What's Your Favorite German Word?!)
Nice all those German words, although most were quite familiar for a Dutchman. So my question is: What is your favorite (or actually most beautiful) English word? Mine is benevolence. I heard it first (and actually only) in a song by Nick Cave; "As (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.general)

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