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Gobbledegeek Oct 10th 2008 7:22 am

Like words?
 
The Beeb has compiled a list of users' top 50 words......there are some very interesting ones for the etymologists amongst you...

Here's no#50:


50. I'm disposed to immediately feel dyspathy with a secretary like Shea, but after goving at his story for a while, I begin to hansardize. There's no point in being philodoxical just because an apparently mundane subject deeply happifies another. I may stroke my natiform chin sceptically at Shea's cachinnations, but if such things truly make him tripudiate, then who am I to be the pejorist?
Rob Stradling, Cardiff
The rest can be found here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7659954.stm

My particular favourite, although not included, is:

mamihlapinatapai


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