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1) What's your favorite word? Exemplar.
2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Schusschnabel (German for shoe-billed stork).
3) What's your least favorite word? Smarmy
4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Just a cunt hair to the left tolerance"
5) What's your favorite regional word? Ya'll

I said in my #3 there were two: like (see above) and any variation of netslang used as a part of speech. I'm an old fuddy-duddy that way.

1) What's your favorite word? Muumuu. How can you say it without grinning?

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Bijoux. A sexy looking word if there ever was one.

3) What's your least favorite word? Not really a word but a mispronunciation: Whenever someone says "Anyhoo..." Makes my teeth ache. By definition, I also hate the word "entitlement".

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Feel of it (him, her, etc.)..." As in, "Honey I think the baby has a fever, feel of him." My husband gives me loads of shit for that one. What can I say; my mom's family is part-hillbilly.

5) What's your favorite regional word? Hollar. As in, "You know them no-good Blankenships who live up in the hollar?" (Appalachian Southern for, "A cleft where two mountains meet. A mini-valley.")

FAVORITE WORD(this week): dickensian
FAVORITE WORD FROM ANOTHER LANGUAGE: this word that people used alot when i lived in germany, and i don't really know how to spell it, but it's something like prot, which is short for proletariat.
LEAST FAVORITE WORD: moist. i really hate the sound of it.
FAVORITE COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSION: "that's too much sugar for my nickel."
FAVORITE REGIONAL WORD: reckon or fixin' to.

your favorite word? Antidisestablishmentarianism

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Sortie (exit in French)

3) What's your least favorite word? C*nt

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "If he has one, he is one"

5) What's your favorite regional word? Wicked

) What's your favorite word? discombobulated

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? chiacchiere (italian. to chat. the "ch" is a hard k sound.)

3) What's your least favorite word? phlegm

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? curiosity killed the cat... but satisfaction brought him back

5) What's your favorite regional word? rocky mountain oysters

1. favorite word: senescence
2. favorite foreign word: strigoi (it's the only Romanian word I know, and Romanian is such a pretty language)
3. least favorite word: cunt
4. favorite colloquial expression: does motherfucker count?
5. favorite regional word: crawdad - a smallish crayfish. We used to go "fishing" for them in the local creek. Which we pronounced "crick." (when I was a kid)

1) What's your favorite word? Ubiquitous or eponymous. Don't make me choose.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? I don't know why I love it, but "mantequilla" is awesome (Spanish for butter).

3) What's your least favorite word? I hate, hate, hate it when people say "whatnot". I don't know why. And, even though the rules have allegedly changed regarding the use of the word "myriad", I still don't like it when people say "a myriad". Bugs.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "By the power of Grayskull!" (OK, fine, not a lot of people say it, but if it's good enough for Simon Pegg it's good enough for me)

5) What's your favorite regional word? I don't really know, but since I'm in the Midwest I'll go with "pop". Or, since I"m in Chicago, anything starting with "Da" (as in, Da Bears, etc.)

1. Favorite Word - snuggle!

2. Favorite Foreign Word - psychologie (French)

3. Least Favorite Word - agreeance

4. Favorite Colloquial Expression - "knickers in a twist"

5. Favorite Regional Word - Bubbler (Wisconsin for drinking fountain)

1. Penultimate. Or egregious.

2. Aubergine, which is French for eggplant.

3. Moist.

4. "Don't show up with your two hands hanging down by your side." Used by my mom and grandmother to express the need to bring along a hostess gift to all occasions.

5. "plazoids"--those who hang out on the main plaza in Arcata, Calif,. all day long.

1) Superfluous

2) "i griega" (Spanish for the letter "y"--the "r" is just really fun to say in this word)

3) Panties--I can't say it, I go with underwear over panties any day.

4) "with every fiber of my being"- really? every fiber?

5) Dude--good to emphasize a point. Even better if you use "seriously" afterward.

1) What's your favorite word? Obstacle. Don't know why, I just think it is fun to say. And defenestrate.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? I am a big fan of "cazzo." (Italian for fuck)

3) What's your least favorite word? De-plane. For the love of God, we have a perfectly acceptable word for the action of leaving a plane. Disembark.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? Translated from Ukrainian: "May a duck kick you." Awesome.

5) What's your favorite regional word? I find "choice" to be unduely amusing for some reason. I loathe "hella," however.

1) What's your favorite word? superfluous
2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? rodzina- Polish for family, cause I am cheesy like that
3) What's your least favorite word? yinz- its a Pittsburgh thing. I really hate it.
4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Ain't knowed, Ain't cared", cause my mom always said that and I always made fun of her for it.
5) What's your favorite regional word? I can't really think of a favorite. I am not really a bit fan of Pittsburgh lingo.

1. favorite: effervescent
2. favorite foreign word: hao - means "good" (among other things) in chinese, but i especially enjoy when people use it kind of like "mmm hmm" in english. they sound like geese or something - "how how how" or even "how-duh how-duh." you have to hear it, really. it's so cute!
3. least favorites: creamy - but only when Giada DeLaurentis says it, and: fave - as in women's magazine covers that are always screaming out their "fave fashion finds," etc.
4. favorite colloquial expression: "God and everybody," as in "God and everybody tried to call me today."
5. In Tennessee old people sometimes call shopping "tradin."

1. What's your favorite word? Tantamount. Or voluptuous...it's my favorite adjective, ie "That beer is voluptuous."

2. What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Slàinte.

3. What's your least favorite word? Fanny. Oh god, I fucking hate that word.

4. What's your favorite colloquial expression? Jesus, Mary and Joseph! I grew up Catholic :)

5. What's your favorite regional word? It's more of an order..."Provie wit." Mmm, cheesesteaks.

1. Favortite word: decoupage.

2. Favorite foreign: Pelicula (spanish for movie, i like the way it rolls off the tongue!)

3. Least favorite: Lozenge (as in "my throat hurts, do you have a lozenge? NO! I have a cough drop!)
Worse would be a moist lozange...ick.

4. Colloquial expression: Bee's Knees.

5. Regional expression: Hot Dish (a midwestern casserole often times containing cream of mushroom soup and ground beef.)

Favorite Word: Onomatopoeia (It's just so FUN to say!)
Favorite Foreign Word: Chingar (pronounced ching-gar) or any correct form of it. Spanish for "to fuck somone" or "to fuck something up". As in "That guy is a real chingon".
Least Favorite Word: Don't - I think that this is because it generally involves people telling me what to or to not do.
Favorite Colloquial Expression: Even though I'm from Texas, I still love "gig 'em". It's a term for "kill 'em" or "kick their ass" basically. As in "Gig 'Em Aggies!".
Favorite Regional Word: Either hella or stoked from Northern California. As in "I was stoked about the concert because it was going to be hella awesome!"

1. Languid.

2. Koneetchiwa.

3. grundle or taint.

4. "I'll be on you like a rat on a Cheeto."

5. Hootenanny.

Awww,Amanda: I guess I'm a flatlander.
1. syncopation- to me, it is the perfect name for the musical definition.
2. chouette- French for owl. It's a cute word, and I love the expression "C'est chouette ca" which I think means something like "okay/sounds good".
3. whilst- it seems to be popping up in blogs that I read; and I hate it. Also-"poring". Blech.
4. "coined by"
5. I'll second pop.

1) What's your favorite word? Defenestration, thanks to Calvin & Hobbes. Facetiously, because it has all the vowels in order. But sometimes simple words, too, like glisten, lily, or murmur because they are fun to say.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? mantilla, a lace head covering from Spain - my grandparents bought one for me in Spain while I was being adopted & got it blessed by the Pope.

3) What's your least favorite word? although it's not really a word "irregardless" drives me nuts. It's IRRESEPECTIVE you idiots.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "I do what I can" is my catch phrase - but I adore my colleague's old catch phrase "I'm not going to lie to you".

5) What's your favorite regional word? Wicked, because it is unmistakably Boston.

1) What's your favorite word? Bewildered.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Domkop - Afrikaans for "Idiot"

3) What's your least favorite word? Moist

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "All tuned up", as in, "we went to a bar and got all tuned up."

5) What's your favorite regional word? "Wicked" was already taken, so I'll go with "sauced" - when said with the proper accent, it's New Englander for "drunk".

What is the deal with Moist? That was a joke on How I met your Mother a few months back. I don't see the harm in it. Oh...and mine:

1) What's your favorite word? Mate, as in friend.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Durchfall ...old joke from college, its German

3) What's your least favorite word? Pookey...

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? cock bag...made up, nonsensical swearword.

5) What's your favorite regional word? Bubbler, New England for Water Fountain

1) What's your favorite word? Plethora

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? jiujinshan - mandarin for San Francisco, literally "old gold mountain". Love it.

3) What's your least favorite word? booger

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? 'Att'l doit. (Translation: RI for That will do it. Used both as a question, answer, and statement)

5) What's your favorite regional word? bubbler (found only in Southern RI, meaning water fountain)

1) What's your favorite word? "Dewclaw" -- this is a dog's vestigial fifth claw, up the leg from the other claws. I also like "flews," which is the dog's droopy upper lip that covers the teeth.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? "Schadenfreude." It's in my nature.

3) What's your least favorite word? "Overpraised," which translates to "offensive to me because I couldn't possibly be wrong about something other people like."

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest." (Thanks, Dad!)

5) What's your favorite regional word? "Whoopin'," Southern (or rural) for ass-kicking-level defeat -- "Even though we played at their field, we gave 'em a whoopin'. I also constantly say "fixin'" when I mean "preparing to," but it's unconscious on my part.

1) What's your favorite word? Gleet (Inflammation of the urethra resulting from chronic gonorrhea and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge.)

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Schadenfreude (Satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.) Only the Germans would have a word for this.

3) What's your least favorite word? "No problem." OK, that's not one word, but I'm sick of hearing people say, "No problem" when they really mean, "You're welcome."

Favorite Word: Fuck (Yes, I know it's crude and vulgar. But it truly is the duct tape of the English language!)

Favorite Foreign Word: Merde (French for "shit." Shades of a bowling Napoleon run through my mind. I actually use it more than our English counterpart.))

Least Favorite Word: testicular (I have an AA that refers to "Testicular Tuesdays" not realizing that it's not cute or funny, but is rather annoying)

Favorite Colloquial Expression: "Who pissed in your Bitch Flakes?" (A cruder but funnier way of asking someone "What's your problem?")

Favorite Regional Word: Wicked (as in "wicked awesome" or "wicked reTAHdid!!!" Somehow, we Bostonians forgot the word "very" exists.)

1) What's your favorite word? Squeegee.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Auspuff-- German for muffler.

3) What's your least favorite word? Taint (blecch)

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "As you do." It goes anywhere!

5) What's your favorite regional word? I live in Minnesota, and I don't know how to spell it, but "Scoche." Or "Uff da."

I can't believe someone else had my favorite word! But here it is again:
Favorite word: discombobulated (how I feel permanently since moving from Seattle to Houston.)
Favorite foreign word: aloha (works for hello AND goodbye!)
Least favorite: peculiar
Colloquial expression: In a coon's age (As in, "I haven't seen that jackass in a coon's age!")
Favorite regional word...well since I'm now living in Texas, it would have to be: y'all

Love this--so fun!

1) What's your favorite word? elocution

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Schadenfreude (German for "pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune")

3) What's your least favorite word? It's a toss up between "moist" and "panties". Seems to be a common thread among many of us here.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Everything's gone to hell in a handbasket". . .meaning

5) What's your favorite regional word? My favorite regional word is "pop" as in soda pop. I remember when I moved to New York, during my first week waiting tables I asked someone, "Can I get you something to drink? Coffee, tea, pop. . ." My customers looked at me like I had three heads and replied, "Pop?". I quickly added the word "soda" in my lexicon so I didn't seem so Midwestern.

Adding my own here, but my least favorite regional word is the use of "on line" in the Northeast. For instance, "I was standing on line waiting to buy a new Metro card. . ." Really? Was there a line you were standing on? No! You were standing IN a line, making up a line of people. Used to drive me and my former roommate CRAZY when we heard that.

Favorite Word: Thirsty
Favorite Word in a Foreign Language: Misericordioso (Spanish) it means merciful.
Least Favorite Word: Cunt
Favorite Colloquialism: "Don't get it twisted"
Favorite Regional word: Y'all.

b--it doesn't??? I thought it did, and an internet search backed it up--but it was an *internet search*. My other memory of it was a giant graffiti owl with "chouette" painted underneath it, so maybe it just stuck in my head. I wonder if it has some contextual meaning in French? I'm so confused!
Sadly, I did not have an owl-enhanced French text in school.

1) What's your favorite word? today it is jalopy.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? pamplemousse french for grapefruit

3) What's your least favorite word? God there are very many. cunt. that gum brand hubba bubba. ugh so bad.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Sew buttons on a cows tail" everyone hates me when i say it.

5) What's your favorite regional word? to put something up. i noticed when i moved to fl people say it and mean to put away.

1) What's your favorite word? megalomaniacal or rejectamenta

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? heuruex (French for Happy)

3) What's your least favorite word? Funner. It's not actually a word, but people say it ALL THE TIME where I live. It drives me up the wall! It's not a word, DON'T SAY IT!

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? Going to hell in a handbasket (that's my preferred mode of transportation)

5) What's your favorite regional word? I avoid my regional terms as much as possible (Utahns tend to sound ignorant). I am, however, pretentious enough to pick up a few Brit phrases; I love "queue" and "bloody" (very basic, eh) I also tend to use "eh" as Canadians do.

1.Roads - Thank you Tommy boy. Also shenanigans, just because some days you need to call Shenanigans! on someone.

2. Pensione - Italian for guest house or much like most here Schadenfreude, because it is just fun to say.

3. Moist - EEEEEWWWW, quit it!

4. Christ on a Christmas Tree. Pull your own damned happy wagon.

5. Southern lingo at it's finest are the words that are combinations of about 3 others. This includes: "Yawontto" = You want to? and "Fixinto" = Fixing to. I also have to admit to heavy use of Y'all.

1. Favorite word: Captivate. Love it.

2. Favorite foreign word: Biglietti (Italian for tickets-loved this word when I took italian in college)

3. Least favorite: I gotta second em on "whatnot". I hate it when people just tack that onto the end of a phrase. "Oh you know, we just need to get bread, milk, whatnot." THIS MAKES NO SENSE.

4. Favorite colloquialism: For the love of all that is sweet and holy. Or, if pressed for time: For the love.

5. Favorite regional word: persnickety. Not really sure if this is regional, but my very southern Grandma used to say it all the time as in: "what's wrong with you? Why you so persnickety today?"

Favorite Word: Snarf! (or mellifluous, wharfage, Lillifus Maximus (my dog's Roman name))
Favorite Foreign Word: Bouillabaise (just made some yesterday...mmmmmmm) and scheize
Least Favorite: Salazar (as in salAYzar not SALazar... it's the name of a mechanics shop here and it drives me up a fuckin' wall everytime I hear them say it. Accent on the FIRST syllable assholes, learn some f'n Spanish).
Favorite Colloquial: Jesli nie urok, to sraczka. Roughly translated: If the curse doesn't get you, the diarrhea will.
Regional word: ya'll. I've been in texas for 8 years but it took less than 24 hrs for me to pick that up.

1) What's your favorite word? Serendipity. I love the meaning, but don't use the word too much as it sounds pretentious.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Chupacabra. It literally means "goat sucker" and is so much fun to say. Try it!

3) What's your least favorite word? Meconium. There is nothing worse than black shit coming from your sweet new baby, and this word brings it all back.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Keep your eyes peeled."

5) What's your favorite regional word? "Brilliant." Even better, "Bloody brilliant."

1) What's your favorite word? sibilance.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? it's a phrase, but "faire du lèche-vitrine" means "to go window shopping" in french... literally, to go window-licking.

3) What's your least favorite word? I know this isn't original, but... moist. And panties. They make me squirm.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? All over (it/him/her/that) like lipstick on a whore.

5) What's your favorite regional word? To mack (verb, transitive): To hit on, flirt with, seduce, make out with, or have sex with someone, though often in a one-night-stand or generally sketchy connotation. I've only heard it used in New Jersey.

Favorite word: Fuck (Thumbs up to David. "Fuck" is indeed the duct tape of the language)

Foriegn Language: Brulee (fun to say, better to eat)

Least favorite: any form of the verb "to be" so dull, so boring, so omnipresent in my students' papers

Colloquial: My mom says, "I'm going to do x if it hare lips the whole world." I find that extremely funny. Also, "Dumb as a box of hair" comes in very handy.

Regional: Southern terms of endearment: darling, sugar, dear, sweetie, etc... I'm awful to use those to refer to total strangers, which got me scolded quite harshly by a drunk lady at Fenway once.

Least favorite regional: wicked, because when we moved to Boston, my husband began to use it as if he was a native.

Oh, and another colloquialism: my Grandma always used to say "you can find sympathy between shit and sorrow in the dictionary." Not exactly accurate, but it got the point across.

1) What's your favorite word? Fur
2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Plotz
3) What's your least favorite word? Panties - it's just icky. I agree with previous poster - just say "underwear" or "underthings" or "lingerie" or "delicates" or "unmentionables."
4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Fuck if I know" or "Get the fuck outta here"
5) What's your favorite regional word? Don't really have one; I'm from Oklahoma, and most of our "regionalisms" are not particular to Oklahoma and/or sound ignorant. People say "fixin' to" quite a lot, meaning "getting ready to" or "about to" do something, but I wouldn't call that a favorite.

And another I love: "Well bless his/her heart, but..." I had a friend who claimed you could say any nasty thing about a person so long as you prefaced it with "Well bless his/her heart, but..."

Well bless her heart, but Aunt Bessie is as ugly as road apples. (To steal another reader's favorite)

1. boob but only when used as an adjective- calling someone a boob is so much fun.

my other favourite word is a word that was submitted to an invent-a-word contest: sarchasm, which is described as the silent void between the person who makes a sarcastic joke and his audience who doesn't get it.

2. dépanneur Québec french word for corner store or general store.

3. guesstimate or any other made-up, office-speak catch phrase like it. drives me f**king nuts and makes me want to slap the smarmy wanker that says it (usually the kind of person that also says basically too much thinking that it makes them sound smart).

4. give 'er, which, as far as I can tell, is a true Canadianism, meaning variously "Do it!", "Let loose", "give it your best shot", "work it" etc etc

5. irie, from Jamaica, meaning "good", "goodness", "positive", "wellness". The classic Marcia Griffiths song Back in the Day has the line "...and everyone feeling irie..", meaning everyone feeling good and happy.

1) What's your favorite word?
"Solipsistic"

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language?
"Schmorgesboard" always makes me laugh. But "crépuscule" is also great.

3) What's your least favorite word?
"Last call". Ha! Just kidding. I guess it's "swarthy".

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? LBJ's famous: "they couldn't pour piss from a boot if the instructions were written on the heel" is pretty classic.

5) What's your favorite regional word?
"Y'all" is actually very useful, but I'm also partial to "whole nother"

Favorite word: Family (I know it's cheesy, but it is)
Favorite word in a foreign language: sonreirse. It means to smile in Spanish.
Least Favorite: Actually. As in Well, actually... b/c not matter what comes next it'll be smug and superior.
Favorite Colloquial expression: The bee's knees.
Favorite regional word: Cooley, which is a ditch.

1. callipygian - the word for round or shapely buttocks
seriously who makes these words in teh 19th century - so great!

2. Sin (pronoucned "sheeen")(that is the japanese onomatopeotic sounds for absolute silence-I love that there is a noise for aboslute silence in Japanese).

3. "couched" -e.g. "He couched his words in such as way" I hate this word. It really is un-necessary in all situations, and you can ALWAYS see it coming in a sentence which I hate

4. Favorite colloquial expression: "fist-to-cuffs" (fisticuffs) or "come to blows" - great way to say fighting
5. "grinder" for sandwhich in the northeast

1) favorite: necropolis
2) foreign: apotheke
3) hate: eschatology
4) colloquial: oh, you dog.
5) regional: cutty, janky, shaisty, thizz. san francisco.

Favorite word: voluptuous
Favorite word in a foreign language: "amigovio" in Spanish. It's a slang word that blends "amigo" (friend) and "novio" (boyfriend). Translates roughly to "friends with benefits."
Least Favorite Word: poot as in "I pooted."
Favorite Colloquial expression: Cruisin' for a bruisin'
Favorite regional word: "fixin' to" or "reckon"

1) anachronistic
2) tabernack (it means "fuck" in french)
3) It's a toss up between "faggot" and "Mississippi" (I slur my "S"s, so it always comes out "Mishishippi". Shame)
4) You didn't hear it from me, but...
5) Poutine (Yay Quebec!)

During the day as I thought of the posts & came back to read more, what about expressions that people say totally wrong? Like "let's flush this out" when they mean 'flesh'? Or "hone in on something" when they should say 'home'? Seems like Pajibans are really bothered by people who say things incorrectly, although understandably endearing when it's part of the local color...

1. Favorite word:
* curvilinear
* interconnectedness

2. Favorite word in a foreign language:
* Doch (A German word that can be pretty much used in most conversation as "on the contrary". It's like an alternative to answering yes or no to a question - and it removes that whole
'did you mean yes or no?' factor that usually happens)

3. Least Favorite Word:
* Minger (British slang for ugly. Eg. "He's a right minger" or "She was mingning")

4. Favorite Colloquial expression:
* "Did you get a wet ass and no fish?" (eg. Did you do something and returned with nothing)
* "A Kangaroo short in the top paddock" (eg. crazy, lost a few marbles)

5. Favorite regional word:
* Dag (If you call someone a dag then they are either a funny person or a bag dresser - eg. "You're such a dag". The term comes from farming where the manure that sticks to a sheeps ass is referred to as a dag)

It looks more than a few Pajibians have read 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary.

1. That's weird. Mine's 'prestidigitation', too.
2. Also weird; mine's German too: 'schnurbart' (moustache).
3. Least favorite word: like a lot of these peoples, that'd be 'panties'.
4. "Dead and too dumb to fall over", or "Fine words butter no parsnips/feed no cats"
5. 'Nugget'. Probably derived from 'butt nugget', this late 80's western Oregon-ism pretty much meant 'scumbag', but often simply meant 'headbanger'.

Favourite word: antepenultimate
Favourite foreign word: I don't know how to spell it, but it's German for "face that needs a fist in it"
Least favourite word: retarded (when it's used as a synonym for stupid and annoying)
Favourite colloquial expression: that's all she wrote (for "it's done")
Favourite regional word: bollocks (it makes me sad that we can't say it around here without sounding like complete posers)

1) What's your favorite word? Oligarchy. It's very woody. :-)

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Okaasan. (Japanese for mother) I don't know why; it just sort of rolls out at odd moments.

3) What's your least favorite word? Lapped, as in lapped up. Ick.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Go down cellar." As in "I need to go down cellar to get the wash.

5) What's your favorite regional word? Either "waste-paper basket" or wicked cool.

1) What's your favorite word? Heinous

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language?

3) What's your least favorite word? 'Spooning', "amazing", "Lube", "tight" (used to describe body) , "FIT" (again used to describe body)"Regina" (ok that last ones a name but it really annoys me)

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "your beautiful"

5) What's your favorite regional word? im persian so thish as to go the foreign root: "maghze khar khordy" (did u eat donkey brain?)

1) What's your favorite word? hyperbole

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? pobrecito/a (poor little boy/girl in spanish)

3) What's your least favorite word? bundt, as in the cake. it is always misheard.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "I'm not gonna lie to you."

5) What's your favorite regional word? crick - as in creek or stream

Oh, how about breakdown lane? I have no idea what "the shoulder" is.

speakeasys - oh man, I get made fun of so bad when my friends find out I can't pronounce "creeeeeeeeeek." I maintain that anywhere people actually use the word creek, they pronounce it "crick," so my pronunciation is right (I also cannot for the life of me pronounce pumpkin properly. It comes out "punkin" but I swear those are the only vestiges of Southern Indiana left in me.)

1) What's your favorite word? Eventually

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Noir (french for black...sounds cool).

3) What's your least favorite word? ...hard to decide, but I guess I'll go with "fail" (as in failing a class)

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "(anything) se malogro" (Peruvian spanish expression that says that something went wrong, either in a physical way, like fruit, or in a figurative way, as in someone; no other country in Latin America uses that expression in both ways).

5) What's your favorite regional word? Floro (peruvian spanish word for...saying a lot of stuff that sounds good but means nothing)

I am a little late to the game, but hey...I'm in Australia and its morning here...

Favourite Word: I am going to go against the grain and say my favourite word is Cunt...

A more G rated word though would be Terrific...not enough people say terrific these days...I am trying to bring it back much like Justin Timberlake is trying to do with sexy...

Foreign Language Word: Well, I don't know...but my favourite German sentence is "Das ist mein hanburger"...ah, memories of year 8 German class...I dont know why, that saying has always stuck with me...

Least Favourite Word: Faggot...Its just hideous...

Colloquial Expression: Doing the vegemite run...For all you poor people who have never heard this, it is basically the act of a female running one self over the sheets/bed/couch/ wherever after sex to scrape up all the sperm left over in order to get pregnant...

Regional Word: I dont know if this happens everywhere...but where I am from, everyone...and I mean EVERYONE says 'yeah, no' for No...and 'Nah, Yeah' for Yes...its a total bastardisation of language I know...

1)Dubious

2)Pomplemousse--it's French for grapefruit. Either that or "brouillard."

3)Goiter

4)"Lord Willing and the creek don't rise", meaning "assuming nothing bad happens"

5)liked to'a --translates into almost. I like to'a finished the yard work, but then the mower broke. Yeah, that's an Eastern Ky-ism.

1. Favorite Word: charming
2. Favorite Foreign Word(s): "flugenhafen" (German word for airport, so simple, yet so delightful)and "Pericolo!" which is Italian for danger/death/explosion...its especially great when said by my friend's overdramatic, yet sweet Italian granny regarding what would happen if you turn up the gas on the stove too high.
3. Least Favorite Word: Placenta
4. Colloquial Expression: can't come up with one
5. Regional Term: "hotdish" the midwestern term for casserole...as in Tuna Noodle Hotdish

Here are my friend's picks. You may visit her at myspace.com/jacwee.

1) What's your favorite word? Bamboozle

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Pomplenouse (means grapefruit in French)

3) What's your least favorite word? Schlong (self-explanatory)

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey!" (best, because I never eat eggs for breakfast)

5) What's your favorite regional word? Ugly (as in "you're being ugly!")

I am sad that I'm so late in the game--but here goes--
Favorite Word -- Nefarious or superfluous
Fave word foreign language -- chispacita (the cute waiter at my fave Mex joint called me that. It means "sparkles".)
Least Fave Word -- Nucular or irregardless (both of which are not really words).
Fave Colloquial Expression -- "one eye fishin' and the other eye squirrel huntin" to describe someone who's crosseyed.
Fave Regional Word -- "Drunker than Cooter Brown" I've heard this alot since moving to the South.

oohh...I forgot another local--really just southern. "Dadgum".

I didn't think people actually used this word, but they really do!

I doubt anyone is still reading these, but the procrastination must continue!
1) What's your favorite word? Frick. It makes up for not being able to say my real favorite word in front of my 3 year old.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Scheisse. Again, a way to cuss when the pre-schooler is around.

3) What's your least favorite word? Whatever, followed closely by extreme.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Crapped out" as in, "My car just crapped out at the intersection and I had to have it towed."

5) What's your favorite regional word? Y'all. I use it, I like it.

1. Myopic. It makes short-sightedness sound so beautiful, no?
2. Alors, but with all its letters pronounced. Actually, any French word after you anglocize the hell out of it.
3. I love how many people hate the word 'moist.' Even when CAKES are 'moist,' it turns my stomach.
4. 'Can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Starbucks/beat poet/recycling bin in this town'
5. People from Saskatchewan call hoodies 'bunny-hugs,' and all the guys I know from Sask are massive, farmer-esque dudes, so to have them say something so cuddly and sweet...

1. Favorite word: plethora.

2. Foreign word: mantequilla.

3. Least Favorite: obligate. Just because you put it in the dictionary does not mean it is a fu*king word (sorry biology). What was wrong with oblige?

4. Colloquial Expression: 'you couldn't swing a cat without hitting...' insert appropriate noun (i.e. ...a bloody Pajiba fan.)

5. Regional word: 'jayden leskie' rhyming slang for esky (what Australians cool beer in). Melbournians might find this distasteful, as it mocks an unusual chapter in bogan Victoria's history, but still very funny.

I like it that others enjoy the same words as I enjoy. Seems fun.

Wednesday, Thank you! It drives me insane that the man who has the power to push the button cannot even properly pronounce the function of the button.

RRRR.....

1. Favorite word: Banal, said with a snooty, English-professor accent; i.e., ba'naaal.

2. Foreign word: Pamplemousse, as in "mon petit pamplemousse."

3. Least Favorite: Spooge.

4. Colloquial Expression: "I need to pee like a race horse."

5. Regional word: Purdy, as in "I feel purdy."

1. Favorite word: Banal, said with a snooty, English-professor accent; i.e., ba'naaal.

2. Foreign word: Pamplemousse, as in "mon petit pamplemousse."

3. Least Favorite: Spooge.

4. Colloquial Expression: "I need to pee like a race horse."

5. Regional word: Purdy, as in "I feel purdy."

Favorite word: eclectic. I love all those C's, the way your mouth moves around the word.

Foreign word: reigibus. Plural, Latin, for kings. (I think....)

least fav word: damp.
ewwwww

favorite expression: don't tell me what the goddamn do! from the man, nathan fillion himself.

Favorite regional word: I'm from Cali and I just moved out to Buffalo and I'm really digging "pop." Can you get a pop from the fridge? You want pop with that?
Pop. Yes, pop.
Either that, or "yous guys."

1) What's your favorite word? Salacious

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Desgraciadamente (unfortunately in Spanish)

3) What's your least favorite word? Not really a word: Um.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "It's raining harder than a bull pissing on a flat rock."

5) What's your favorite regional word? Wicked (as in, "That's wicked good!" - New England)

1. spackle - it just sounds so raw!
2. mariposa (it would make a lovely name for a girl)
3. bellybutton (sounds like a baby word for that part of the body)
4. "Surely you must be joking...I'm not joking and don't call me Shirley!"
5. "fag" - a cigarette! (but don't ever say "can I bum a fag?" in London, because they'll say "oh, I don't know, can you?")

1) What's your favorite word? "aubergine" or "codify", its a toss-up.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? "haole" (hawaiian) What's with all of the German?

3) What's your least favorite word? "panties"

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "For crying outloud"

5) What's your favorite regional word? nobody says "freakin" like they do in Jersey.

Y'all need to stop hating on moist.

Think about it: don't we love moist chocolate cake? Warm moist towels they give you at restaurants sometimes? Moist fertile soil after a rainfall? And yes, moist panties... what, that doesn't turn anyone else on?

I STAND UP FOR MOIST

Oh, I love this. Hard one. OK:

1) This is so hard. I'll go with mellifluous, for now.

2) Probably putamadre, which is Spanish and literally means "whore-mother," but is used like motherfucker is in English

3) When people use random in stupid ways, like, "Wow, that was so random!" No, it was a coincidence. Also, shut up. I have many more like this, but I'll stop myself.

4) Hmm, maybe "Sweet zombie Jesus!" except no one really says that naturally (if you do, you are really awesome and I wish I were more like you).

5) Vermonters call soft-serve "a cremee." I've read that there's an actual difference between soft-serve and cremees, but I don't know if that's true.

For real, Donna, Yiddish is the best language EVER. Unfortunately, I only know the smattering of words my mom ever used. Some I love (and these are all appoximate spellings):

falshugana: (fale-shug-ana) all messed up, from the word "falsh" meaning fake
schmata: literally "rag" but used to describe any material
shikse: (shik-sah) not the nicest term for a non-jewish woman (see: WASPy temptress)
mishpokhe: (mis-puk-ah) the whole darn family (see: "Oh, I can't hang out today, the whole mishpokhe is coming over for dinner. Oh vey!")

1) What's your favorite word? Tintinnabulation--completely useless (you can just say "ding-dong"), but so fun to say and spell.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? 马上 (ma3 shang4) from Mandarin Chinese--in combination it means "immediately", but word-for-word means "on a horse". And sacapuntas from Spanish (pencil sharpener).

3) What's your least favorite word? I agree with a lot of other people on moist, panties, phlegm(atic).

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Not the brightest bulb on the tree."

5) What's your favorite regional word? Spendy (Midwestern American for "expensive").

Favorite Word: prescient

Favorite Word from a foreign Language: Domingo (spanish for Sunday). it just feels nice to say. Nice colors.

Least Favorite Word: Pussy

Favorite colloquial Expression: "That dog don't hunt"

Favorite Regional Word: wicked

Paris, "Draw" is also the pronunciation of choice for men's undershorts in the South. As in, "Hank up yer britches, I kin see ya draws."

1) What's your favorite word? "Plethora." Though a very close second is "shenanigans."

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? "Fliegenspray", which is German for flyspray.

3) What's your least favorite word? Yeah, "moist" is terrible.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Wicked pissah". I grew up in New England, but now live in the UK - people here always find it funny that this actually means something positive.

5) What's your favorite regional word? Probably "craic", which means good times or general debauchery.

1) What's your favorite word? Underpants. I have no idea why but it cracks me up every time.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? chutzpah. Don't know if Yiddish counts as a foreign language.

3) What's your least favorite word? There are two: Moist, especially when used in a sexual context, and Loose when used in reference to scrambled eggs. I was a waiter in a diner and it made me gag every time a customer would use it.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Three sheets to the wind"

5) What's your favorite regional word? Fixin. As in "I'm fixin to get ready," or "I'm fixin to go get another beer."

1) What's your favorite word? synchronicity
2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? dos vadanya (two words, Russian for goodbye...love the way it rolls off your tongue)
3) What's your least favorite word? fleshy...ewww
4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? barking mad (from my Scottish hubby's oeuvre)
5) What's your favorite regional word? pop (harking back to my Ohioan roots)

Why is it that all women seem to hate the word moist? I understand disliking the words slit and panties, but moist? It just seems a little jr. high to me.

Favourite word: Bioluminescent (it sounds bubbly)

Favourite word in a foreign language: Chuchichäschtli- Swiss German for kitchen cabinet. It's also a shibboleth, which is a great word in itself.

Least favourite word: Bitch

Favourite expression: Who's coat's that jacket? Welsh people really do come out with utterances like this; I've heard it with my ears!

Favourite regional word: Bletch, meaning grime or muck, only used in Crewe (Cheshire, England)*. Long ago Crewe used to be the home of one of the biggest train stations in the UK, and famous for its sparkly clean engines- except the one from Bletchley, which always came in coated with black smog residue. I've heard locals use it to refer to bike chain grease and dirt.
(etymology courtesy of my slightly mad Mother, so possibly completely wrong, but interesting nonetheless)

*Funnily, whenever a scally** from Crewe is arrested, they give their address as Crewecheshireengland, even if they're in a police station in Cheshire.

**North Western equivalent of chav

1) What's your favorite word? Jubilee. It kind of makes me want to dance down the sidewalk.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Either "papillon" (French for butterfly) or "mutasaamira" (Arabic for "spending an evening in pleasant conversation." All that in one word. We should have an English word for that.)

3) What's your least favorite word? I have two: fleshy and bland. They both sound so overwhelmingly, suffocatingly beige and doughy.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? When my grandparents say, in their Wisconsin accent, "Oh, fer gosh sake," accompanied by a roll of the eyes, or, of course, "You betcha."

5) What's your favorite regional word? "Dude." So many meanings in one syllable.

1) What's your favorite word? Indubitably

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? "Mamelon" (French word for nipples, it's just fun to say)....also "couette" (French, for "little piece of hair sticking out", think Alfalfa...and I, nor anyone I have ever met, cannot find an accurate English translation)

3) What's your least favorite word? Schlong (I agree with Russell Peters on this one, it sounds wet)

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Happier than a pig in shit", "I have to piss like a racehorse" or "I'm sweating like a stuck pig"

5) What's your favorite regional word? "Sugar bush"....as the place where you tap trees and make maple syrup

Um, Brent, ew.

Another good colloquialism is "heavier than a dead priest." My mom says that alot re: groceries, suitcases, her grandchild.

Favorite word: Eleemosynary

Favorite word from a foreign language: Agricola-- latin for farm, and the first word most learn in the language.

Least favorite word? Hella, Hecka, any west coast slang, really.

Favorite colloquial expression: ______ like a whore in church (especially the nonsensical ones, such as hungry like a whore in church)

5) What's your favorite regional word: Bunk, meaning to skip school/class-- national bunk day, bunking first period for breakfast, etc.

1- canoodle (not only the sound, also the silly meaning. Second could be "shenanigans".)
2- poshlust (Russian for "crap that gets recognized" or something like that)
3- roared (I feel stupid when I say this or any other word with a complicated pronunciation. Like in "aardvark", which someone said before)
4- I'll go with a simple "holy crap!"
5- jamboree (I'm not in the US, so I'm not sure if this qualifies as regional, but I like it a lot)

1) Meretricious
2) desemborrachado
3) Prioritise
4) Or a no? (it's a Somerset thing, that I'm wholly unequipped to described the pronunciation for. Somerset is a county in South-West England. Sorry)
5) Grockle

1) What's your favorite word? "Hug"
2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? "Bouilliabaisse"
3) What's your least favorite word? "Hopefully", as in "Hopefully, George Bush will figure out what we're doing in Iraq." What this word really means is "I'm in denial, big time, but so are the people I'm addressing."
4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "That s--- don't float."
5) What's your favorite regional word? "Sugar off" which means "net bottom line"--as in, how much maple syrup you get after you boil off the water. It's a New England thang.

1) What's your favorite word? although, however. i love transition words.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? bourgeois

3) What's your least favorite word? woman. whenever i hear it i think of a elderly, overweight and extremely bosomy woman.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? like

5) What's your favorite regional word? pop, as opposed to soda.

1) What's your favorite word? Verbose

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Actually 2 words: pancietta affumicata (Italian for bacon, reminds me of my boyfriend!)

3) What's your least favorite word? For some reason, I can only think of shrew (not the worst, but it's still pretty bad)

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? Well, I'll say! (reminds me of my dad)

5) What's your favorite regional word? Mate (You got to love England for that)

1. Shenanigans. Caboodle.
Many other words if you attach *pants* to the end. Examples: monkeypants, shweetypants. (Only ever applied to the husband and the cat.)
2. Langostino. And most of the (dubious) words in the Ikea catalogue.
3. Slew. And replete. God damn, how fucking pretentious!
4. "Well bugger me with a fishfork!"
5. Bonza. (Excellent.)

And David is in actuality Joy Lass.

Nobody is going to read this and I don't care.

1) What's your favorite word? Icky.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Paloma- Spanish. It's pretty and it manages to mean both dove and, oddly, pigeon.

3) What's your least favorite word? Worcestershire. Can't pronounce the damn thing.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? Keep your pants on! It sounds slightly dirty but it usually gets the job done.

5) What's your favorite regional word? I'm from the Chicago suburbs and I grew up referring to any place within city limits as "downtown". So, "Are you going downtown tonight?" "Yeah, we've got a job on the South Side." Stupid.

1. Fav word: plasticine.
It just sounds so self important, its perfect.

2. Fav Foreign Word: fünf or картошка (kar-tosh-ka)
German for the number 5 (or what comes between fear and sex...) or Russian for potato. Respectively.

3. Least Fav: herb
Silent h my @ss.

4. Fav Colloquial: "In the weeds"
Restaurant for leave me alone, im too busy.

5. Fav Regional Word: Agida
Brooklyn Italian for heart burn

1. favourite word- senescence or boneworthy (a word vomit that turned out better than i could have hoped)
2. favourite foreign word- either funf (german for 5) or oubliette (french for prison)
3. least favourite word- moist. i had no idea that so many people had issues with this word, its nice to know im not alone.
4. favourite colloquial- sweet baby jeebus/ save me jeebus. im incapable of saying jesus now
5. fav regional- facehead (to be used as an insult- thank u extreme trampoline) from auckland nz

1) What's your favorite word? Humbug/philistine (both are equally cherished)

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Kachichi (urdu - the feeling of mind-blowing irritation)

3) What's your least favorite word? Scotlander (take note English commantators)

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? 'I didnae come up the Clyde in a banana boat.'

5) What's your favorite regional word? tatties (potatoes)

Since I'm from (someone's favorite foreign language pick) Österreich I can't really contribute, besides sharing my favorite (semi) English word:
'petty bourgeoisie' - so much more fun than 'Kleinbürgertum'.

The aforementioned 'landesohyt' should probably be 'Landeshoheit' and 'wunderfrauline' does - sadly - not exist. But German is a crazy language indeed.

1) What's your favorite word? Laurel.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Profiterole.

3) What's your least favorite word? Methinks. It's obnoxious enough when Shakespeare uses it. When modern writers use it, it makes my teeth hurt.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? Bob's your uncle.

5) What's your favorite regional word? Yiz, Irish slang for second-person plural. As in, "howr yiz" or "the pair of yiz..."

1) What's your favorite word? "Vulva" sounds cool.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? "Papas fritas" means french fries in Spanish. It just sounds cheery.

3) What's your least favorite word?
"Panties" and "scoliosis".

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression?
"Suicide lane" means a turn lane.

I also like it when people put "-ville" on the end of a word, like "loserville."

5) What's your favorite regional word?
I don't know how to spell it, but "baby" in Hawaiian is pronounced "cakey." There's a child abuse prevention campaign slogan that goes "Never shake a cakey." I shouldn't laugh, but I always do.

My grandmother grew up in New York, and would call a couch a "davanoe," which is a very cool word I've never heard someone else use.

I also like the English word "sweeties," meaning candies.

Least favourite word: Butt as in buttocks. It sounds so vulgar and crass.

Other favourite colloquial expression - More money than God....

Yet another favourite colloquial expression: Someone told me about a drunk woman saying this about 16 years ago and it became part of my lexicon and now part of my husband's:

I need to pee like nine big dogs.

I just noticed that someone hates the word tummy while I hate the word belly. I guess we are not sympatico.

This comment diversion really has been delightful.

1) What's your favorite word? akathesia
2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? if yiddish counts, "shmootz"
3) What's your least favorite word? Monies
4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "ain't it"
5) What's your favorite regional word? wicked

1) What's your favorite word? Mom (I just lost mine and I miss her)

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? NARANJA (Spanish for Orange)

3) What's your least favorite word? Boogers or anything related to what Whoopi G calls 'nose goblins'. Ick.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression?
"Ain't funny, McGee." (from the old radio show Fibber McGee & Molly)

5) What's your favorite regional word? Y'all ('you all' in Southern US)

1. words: "quintessential", "facetious", "onomatopoeia"
2. foreign word: "jolie" - French adjective describing someone who is kind of friendly and fun. "embarasada," which in Spanish does not mean "embarrassed" as you might think, but instead means "pregnant". Also "Kopfenschlagen" but that's mainly because of Soapdish. (Brake fluid! Brain flavor! Brain fever!)
3. hate: "impactful" (which really shouldn't be a word). "Utilize" when you mean "use." "Service" as a verb and not in reference to a car.
4. colloquial expressions: "Not the sharpest knife in the drawer." "Running on fumes." "Everyone and their sister..." And one from my family: "He's a nice boy, but he shits too close to the house."
5. regionalisms: "Y'all." "Ornery" but pronounced "AWN-ry" to describe someone mischievous, usually a kid.

1. requiem. just say it out loud.
2. omorfoula. greek for "doll."
3. phenomenon. i cannot say it correctly without a great deal of thought and energy.
4. "naw, i'm just jaggin' ya" pittsburghese for "you're an idiot."
5. "n'at" pittsburghese again. means etc., et. al., and then, in conlusion and pretty much whatever else you want it to mean.

Extremely late to the game, but what the hell ...

) What's your favorite word? unfortunate ... I like to use it as a more polite way of critizing someone's appearance (as in "Bless his heart, he certainly is unfortunate looking." Yes, I'm Southern, why do you ask?)

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Meeskite (yiddish for ugly or, ha, unfortunate-looking), mostly because of the song from Cabaret. The word gets stuck in my head and I go around, singing, "Meeskite, Meeskite," but then I can't remember the rest of the song.

3) What's your least favorite word? douche, though it's growing on me as a term of insult but not when referring to the actual product or act. I also hate episiotomy ... makes me cringe/shudder/run screaming from the room when women post-pregnancy bring it up in conversation.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression?
Ill as a hornet (meaning irritable).

5) What's your favorite regional word? Can I do least favorite? I HATE yonder, groceries (when used to refer to cooked food already on the table), over top (instead of on top), young'uns (children), and big'un (term of endearment for a child, similar to "big boy").

I love y'all and couldn't live without it. And I tend to latch onto regionalisms from other areas ... I say dude and wicked a lot, which gets me some funny looks in Alabama.

And you thought you were late to the game...

My favorite word is glyptostroboides -- okay, so it's not English (Latin refering to the Dawn Redwood)but come on, say it outloud...it's just so fun! Or even, say, colloquial- another fun one!

My favorite foriegn word would also be Latin - Blechnum spicant - Latin name for the Deer Fern, but when directed forcefully at anyone who isn't a plant geek (You Blechnum spicant!!), it sounds as if you are calling them something horribly nasty! lol

My least favorite is actually three words when combined..."Not so much". I've noticed this being used more frequently here in Oregon as a negative comment meaning anything from "I don't agree" to "I don't like him/her/it/" Usually in the context of the conversation this makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE!!!! Stop it!

Favorite colloquial expression would be something I picked up in West Virginia - "Well shit fire and save the matches!" (meaning anything from Wow!, to Are you kidding me?)

Favorite regional...My dad grew up in the midwest and he (like the rest of his side of the family) pronounces wash as "warsh".