Today I typed the word “wangle” for the first time ever. I’ve done it 3 times now. It feels good.

I’ve flicked through the dictionary and found another one.

[u]Sonorous. [/u][/i]

Get in.

Anyone else want to pop their word typing cherry?

I used exorbitant in the Joshua-Klitschko thread, I had to Google to check there was no “h” after the x.

Lithography.

Behemoth.

Sorry

pretty sure I’ve never typed “espionage” or “Methuselah”

Sorry

Fair enough, it does seem like the hardest word

gerrymander – nicely topical with an election on the way.

I popped a vocab’ cherry this morning when I typed “contradictorily.”

wrong

Calisthenics [NOUN gymnastic exercises to achieve bodily fitness and grace of movement.]

Bayou [NOUN (in the southern US) a marshy outlet of a lake or river.]

I used the word lackadaisical during a phone interview today.

learnings

In a post ironic agiley development kind of way
#still hating myself

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Damyouperchyyoubeatmetoit

#PrayforDiane

gerrymander

That’s a quality word

Parameterising

I had to add it to a document I was writing at work

Apricity: “the warmth of winter sunlight”

Ftmch

I don’t think I’ve ever typed ‘whom’ before just then. Weird word. Don’t like it.

What’s a ftmch?

I was 37 before I read or wrote the word meringue on a public forum. When I did it was merange, of course.

I was mocked.

I was 37 before I read or wrote the word meringue on a public forum. When I did it was merange, of course.

I was mocked.

Glaswegian goes into a cake shop and asks “Is that a doughnut or a meringue?”. The lady in the shop says “No you’re right it’s a doughnut”.

Onomatopoeia.

Edit: sesquipedalian

Glaswegian goes into a cake shop and asks “Is that a doughnut or a meringue?”. The lady in the shop says “No you’re right it’s a doughnut”.

🙂

Brilliant!

Assonance. I love it. It feels so right.

Mellifluous. I’m not sure what it means…

Meniscus

Cylindricity.

This reminds me of a running “words you can burp” competition I had with a friend for a while. The jury is still out as to whether “Constantinople” beats “dodecahedron” or not.