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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

1) What's your favorite word? blather

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Craic (pronounced crack) Gaelic word for group fun.

3) What's your least favorite word? There are two: like (used extra grammatically--people use it more and more and it seriously grates my nerves)

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "By the skin of my teeth"

5) What's your favorite regional word? Mommicked (Southern/Queen's English for 'put through the ringer' or in a sentence-- My lord honey, ain't I been mommicked this here day--specifically from the Harker's Island area of North Carolina) I think that one also goes for #4, now that I think of it.

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? denoument (kinda cheating here, what with that word being french, but used in english a lot)

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Stadtmusikanten, which is german for town musician (as in Town Musicians of Bremen, a great children's story)

3) What's your least favorite word? taxidermy. kinda complicated to spell and say, and the act is pretty gruesome

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Everyone and their uncle must be here right now" or a variation of such

5) What's your favorite regional word? yunz (Pittsburghian for "you" or "all of you")

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.")

1) What's your favorite word? Smock

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Djibouti (Capital of Djibouti)

3) What's your least favorite word? Moist

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Mother of God"

5) What's your favorite regional word? Pop (Midwest for soda)

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.

1) Malevolent. I love the way it flows off your tongue. Say it aloud. Malevolent.
2) Conmigo. Sounds like amigo, but better.
3) Moist or extract.
4) In the doldrums. Makes me think of the Phantom Tollbooth.
5) Flatlanders- being from Colorado, they are out-of-towners, especially from the Midwest.

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

1) What's your favorite word? Squishy

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Osterreich (German for Austria - I still catch myself saying it for no reason whatsoever.

3) What's your least favorite word? Whatever. It has such a negative meaning now, almost like a not-so-in-your-face way of saying, "fuck you."

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "....as all get out", as in, "Dang, Darla's dog is as ugly as all get out."

5) What's your favorite regional word? Buggy - Southern for grocery cart.

) 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) What's your favorite word? smock

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? bula- fijian for hello, goodbye, general greetings and always sounds warm

3) What's your least favorite word? two- irregardless- everyone stop please stop staying this!

momentarily- only use this word if you know what is means. I hate people who try and sound sophisticated by saying "coming up momentarily" or some version of this. It means for a moment not in a moment! Please stop, it drives me up the wall!

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "he was over it like shit on a wool blanket"

5) What's your favorite regional word? "road apples" ... i don't know exactly where this saying comes from but if you can find a better term for frozen horse shit, I haven't heard it!

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? Defenestration

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Cinq cent cinquant cinq, which is french for the number 555. The spelling is probably wrong because it's been years since I've taken french, but saying it is a lot of fun.

3) What's your least favorite word? There are two: Moist, panties, blouse

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Well, there you go", as in "there you have it". This seemed pretty straight forward to me until we once confused some Brits with its use.

5) What's your favorite regional word? I'm from the northwest, which is liguistically considered to be neutral in terms of dialect or even accent, so I can't think of any in particular. Maybe someone else from the region can help me out.

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:Grippy-I am a Colbert fan and this word always makes me smile.

2. Favorite Foreign Word: weltanschauung (german for world view)

3. Least favorite word:Cunt

4. Favorite Colloquial expression: 6 of one; half dozen of the other

5. Favorite Colloquial word: ahya'll - picked up in Oklahoma means all of you

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) What's your favorite word? Defenestration

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Either "Schadenfreude" or "Bouillabaisse"

3) What's your least favorite word? Hard to say, but at this moment, "Moist" is coming to mind.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? Fuck if I know.

5) What's your favorite regional word? "The". As in, "To get there, take THE 5 to THE 405"

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.

I'm sorry, but I just have to say that I'm giggling over the word "moist". Hee!

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.

FAVORITE WORD: Excessive
FAVORITE WORD FROM ANOTHER LANGUAGE: Ay Nico ='s Oh my! in tagolog.
LEAST FAVORITE WORD: Liquor (I don't even know her!) My brother has ruined the word for me.
FAVORITE COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSION: "I'm goin' down the ocean."
FAVORITE REGIONAL WORD: Hon

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? Surly

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

3) What's your least favorite word? Moist

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? Well I'll be damned

5) What's your favorite regional word? "Cheers" (think UK, Australia, etc)

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.

2) What's your favorite word?--Serendipitous

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Scustomat--northen Italian noun for a naughty person--I heard it a lot growing up.

3) What's your least favorite word? Attitude--people tell me mine's bad.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression?-- "Don'tcha know" The Minnesota/Wisconsin suffix for every third sentence.

5) What's your favorite regional word?--Neutra--the southen Virginian word for the muskrat. I think the animal would approve, it sounds lot more elegant when you're calling the exterminator.

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) Psuedo - just reminds me of the Phil Collins song...
2) Uber - Once more with the German...If I have to say what it means then I'm ashamed of you.
3) Moist - Ugh...It just brings up all kinds of Eli Roth inspired thoughts...a feat because I've watched a total of 3 minutes of his work.
4) C'est que fuck? - Showing that I can be foul mouthed in the true language of Canada-Franglais. It might also be the result of attending a bilingual university that managed to impair my ability to speak any language.
5)Sweet Thundering Jesus (or Sweet baby Jesus) - It's one of the few tells I have about my Newfie (Newfoundland being Canada's version of the deep south...meth labs and all) family. Stick me with them for too long and the accent even creeps into my voice boy-o.

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. Favorite word? Duality

2. Favorite forgein word? Porcona (Italian for "slut" - my dad used to say it all the time whenever he was mad)

3. Least Favorite word? Tool (it's overused now, and has lost it's meaning...people just use it as another word for stupid.)

4. Favorite colloquial phrase? "Slipperier than goose shit on a pump handle"

5. Favorite regional word? "Chucklehead"(means "stupid" in eastern Canada ie. Newfoundland)

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.)

1. Any word with the double-O...see Ooze, gooey, poo, dookie, snooker, cookie, toot...Say them aloud. They are all somuch fun to say. 'Cunt' is also a great word...but only if you're British or one girl saying it about another girl out of frustration.
2. Gewürztraminer - A German white wine.
3. (no such thing) but if i had to choose one i try to avoid...cunt. Cuz I'm not British, or a chick.
4. "Word."
5. "Wooder" - this is the fucked up way that people from Delaware say "water." I hate it.

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!"

fave word: slut (as in how jay and silent bob use it: she's a sllllut: boing!)

fave foreign: it's a tie between 'viva' and 'bambino'

least fave word: quaint

fave colloquial expression: bless your heart

fave regional word: y'all

1. Languid.

2. Koneetchiwa.

3. grundle or taint.

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

5. Hootenanny.

1) What's your favorite word? Dirge
2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Oustlandar - German for Westerner (not sure of spelling)
3) What's your least favorite word? Colonoscopy
4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "...On God's Green Earth"
5) What's your favorite regional word? Feeder Road - from houston area meaning the service or frontage road running along side of a highway.

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? Twee.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? I don't umm... know any other languages.

3) What's your least favorite word? Panties -- it's so skeevy sounding.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "To death."

5) What's your favorite regional word? Jawn -- it's interchangeable for just about every noun, kind of like "smurf" for Philadelphians. Example: "Hand me that jawn" or "Damn! Did you see that jawn?"

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? Clandestine

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Either funfundfunfzig (German for fifty five) or fagfolk (Norwegian for expert).

3) What's your least favorite word? Mayonnaise. Is it pronounced man-aze or may-yon-aze??

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? I guess my favorite colloquial expression is one I actually detest--I hate it when people say "a whole nother thing". What exactly is a "nother"?

5) What's your favorite regional word? Davenport. Just a fancy word for sofa.

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".

1) What's your favorite word? Indeed. Not for sound, but for it's infinite uses, regarding inflection.
2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Buggrit
3) What's your least favorite word? Moist.
4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? cool beans. Yes, I suck, but I don't care.
5) What's your favorite regional word? Ooooh, unprepared for this one, erm... nope. Can't thinka one.

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

Favourite word: Twee. How can you not love it?

Favourite word from a foreign language: Zhizni. It's Russian (transliterated) for 'life'. I just like the sound of it.

Least favourite: Cotton. Not so much for the word, as the fact that I cannot stand the feel of cotton balls.

Favourite colloquial expression: Colder than a witch's tits.

Favourite regional word: Heh, sort of a cheat, but while I live in Canada, I seem to use British slang more, as that's where I was born/lived for 5 years, and my whole family is very British. Anyway, I've always loved how my parents and other relatives refer to the ocean as 'the pond'. As in, "my son lives 'cross the pond." It just tickles me. "Chuffed" is also a fun word.

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)

Holla, westcoastpat!!

And it CRACKS me up that so many people hate "moist" and "panties." It particularly grosses me out because, when people hate both of those words, it makes me think of the two put together. *pause* EEEEWWWWWWW.

1. Portmanteau!! It's my favorite word AND my favorite kind of word!
2. Jashik -- a Korean word with no real English equivalent that simultaneously means "punk," "rascal," "sneak," and "smart-aleck." I've Anglicized it. The word for the practice of being a jashik would then be "jashikery."
3. I really hate it when people use "literally" figuratively, esp. since those who use it tend to OVERuse it. I know that it's acceptable now, but I don't think it should be. "It was so heavy that my arms literally fell off." Really, Joe? They fell off? They were torn from their sockets by the weight of those three textbooks? Then how you didn't bleed to death is beyond me.
4. I guess my all-time favorite is "yo mama."
5. I, like westcoastpat, am a fan of "THE 405" and "THE 5" when referring to freeways (and by that I mean "highways," for you Chicagoans out there). And, like Chesnut, I also love "dude" -- esp. "dude, seriously!"

SO FUN!!! I loved this diversion!!

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.

I'm starting a list of awesome words pronto.

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."

Kt - "Chouette" does not mean "owl" in French; it's sort of a dated way of saying "cool". "Hibou" means owl. But I am wondering... did you have an FSL text book when you were a kid with a bespectacled and besneakered owl on the cover, and the text was called "Chouette"? Because I did!!!

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? cacophony

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? fromage (french for "cheese")

3) What's your least favorite word? crud

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "You gotta be shittin' me."

5) What's your favorite regional word? kitty-corner, means diagonal

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."

FAVORITE WORD: shenanigans

FAVORITE WORD FROM ANOTHER LANGUAGE: Que? (Spanish)

LEAST FAVORITE WORD: I hate when people say "you guys'" like you guys-is when they really mean "all of you" or just "you" plural. Running a close second: pronouncing Chanukah, Cha-Nu-Kah.

FAVORITE COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSION: "don't sell me no wolf cookies" (don't lie to me)

FAVORITE REGIONAL WORD: Negro or Colored. Being a Cali girl, it just tickled me when Southern folks referred to me as Negro or Colored. I felt like I was in a time warp.

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

1) What's your favorite word? Fancy

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

3) What's your least favorite word? "anyways"...as in there is a lull in conversation and someone says "anyways...."

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? well there are so many...

"that's what she said" obviously and "by the hammer of thor" oh tina fey

but my real favorites are things my dad has said to me repeatedly over the years...

"well shit and fall back in it" an expression of surprise that changes (shit and sleigh ride in it) depending on degree of surprise or season

"shoot me in the belly button and call me holy" another expression of surprise or just conversation filler as in my dad has nothing else to say

"rode hard and hung up wet" this is how my dad refers to "hard looking women" another one of his gems

"everyone and their brother" I say this regularly in large crowds

"they ate a person" how we refer to people who've gained a significant amount of weight since we last saw them

5) What's your favorite regional word? lawnparty it's what most people would call a carnival...I used to coach a majorette group in a town much smaller than mine and that's what they called them

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: Twinkle
Favorite foreign word: Putain (French for "whore," and sort of an all-purpose swear word)
Least favorite word: I know I'm weird, but the word "nourish" makes my teeth itch
Favorite colloquial expression: That dog won't hunt (close second: He couldn't find his ass with both hands)
Favorite regional word: wicked

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.

I find it interesting how many people's fav foriegn words are Germanic. I personally believe it has something to do with the length of their words and the high "F" content thereof.

1. Favorite Word: Mellifluous or moose.

2. Favorite Forign Word: Noodouitgang (that is almost certainly spelled wrong) which is Dutch for "Emergency exit" I think.

3. Least Favorite Word: Tummy. Eegh. Sends chills up my spine just typing it.

4. Favorite Colloquial Expression: "Rode hard and put away wet" which is an expression my mother uses to describe a woman who has lived hard and/or aged badly. I believe it is horse-related?

5. Favorite Regional Word: Wicked. I grew up in PA and moved to Boston for college, and this word has become emblematic of my love for this city.

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? Opalescence or lollygag.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Unterseebooten (German for "submarine")

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

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "At the fag-end of a good time" or, "running around like a blue-arse fly" (Newfoundland)

5) What's your favorite regional word? Tangly, used when something or someone is very complicated or prone to getting involved in complications. For example, "I'd invite him to go with me but he's so tangly we'd never make it in time" (also Newfoundland)

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? Facetious. (It has all the vowels in it in order)

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Shizer (German for Shit)

3) What's your least favorite word? Nougat. It just sounds Smarmy coming out of your mouth.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Everyone and their Mother..."

5) What's your favorite regional word? Rubbish or wanker. (I pretty much love english words...and when I say english..I mean England)

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. Pizza. But it is the way my Mamaw (great-grandmother) says it, "We goin' go get peezaaa down in Overton?" That is the only thing we eat when I take her out, peezaa.

2. Taco

3. Steer, its meaning where I'm from is a boy bull who has been clipped when hes a calf in order to put some weight on him and sell him to meat plants. There are actually many different names for what people call "cows," there is the bull, cow, heifer, steer, and calf. Learn somein' new everyday, now don' ya'!

4. "Go ahead, and I didn' say goathead." My mom says that all the time, and it is "didn'" not "didn't."

5. "em", as in "I can't believe some folks call em crayfish, they're crawdads."

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) What's your favorite word? Carcophony.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Wabi. Japanese for beauty in imperfection.

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

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "taking the piss". It's a British expression for good-natured teasing, more or less. It took me a while to suss out the meaning when my UK friends used it.

5) What's your favorite regional word? Y'all. We lived in east Texas for a while when I was growing up and while I've lost the accent, you can have my y'all when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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?"

Another for 4: "I loves me some . . ." as in, "I loves me some Simon Pegg--I've seen all his movies."

Silly. But fun to say.

Along the same lines: "Mm, Simon Pegg. Gotta get me some of that."

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? cyclical (it sounds dirty)

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Schadenfreude (picture puppets singing)

3) What's your least favorite word? Moist

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? Good, bad or indifferent

5) What's your favorite regional word? Jimmies (New England for chocolate sprinkles)

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. Quixotic
2. Hassenpheffer-German for rabbit. This diversion goes a long way toward proving my theory that german is the most hilarious language ever.
3. Ain't (Pap was an English teacher)
4. "I have to piss like a racehorse!"
5. Cattywampus. My Grandpa used to say it all the time.

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.

1) Defenestration.

2) Struzzicadenti. It's italian for toothpick, and a fun word to say.

3) Bandwidth. This is a buzzword with people I work with, i.e. "What's your bandwidth in being able to help with the project?" and it makes me batty, as they use it instead of asking "Hey, can you help me out?"

4) "Che c'e vuoi fa?" (prn: kay chay VOY fa) Italian for "What can you do" or "What are you gonna do?" Works be when shrugging shoulders and holding palms up in a pantomime. Why didn't they ever use this on the Sopranos?

5) Hyphy. Because I'm from the Yay Area.

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.

Favorite word: poop
Favorite foreign word: weltschmerz, German for world-weariness. Pretentious, yes, but it's still a pretty freaking cool word.
Least favorite word: pretentious
Favorite colloquial expression: Bless your (or his or her) heart. It could be sincere, or it could mean "fuck you," depending on the context
Favorite regional word: There are so many, I can't pick just one.

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? Implicate.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Usotsuki - it means "liar" in Japanese. It's really fun to say.

3) What's your least favorite word? This isn't really an explicit word that I don't like, so much as a usage, but I HATE it when people name their child "Alexia." Sure it sounds pretty, but it's actually the inability to read caused by brain damage. So stop it.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? I think the only one I ever actually use is "Jesus H. Christ!"

5) What's your favorite regional word? Hella. Sorry, Northern California will live within me forever.

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.

1. Favorite word: Toast or Toaster

2. Favorite Foreign Word: tak (Danish for "thanks") or mantequilla de cacahuetes ("peanut butter" in Spanish)

3. Least favorite word: This isn't a word per se, but I HATE the pseudo-riche trend of naming children (be they boys or girls) last/street/place names. See: Madison, Taylor, Tyler, Jackson, Harrison, Dakota, Brooklyn, etc. My class list looks like a damn signing of the Constitution.

4. Favorite Colloquial expression: "Sweet Jesus!" said exuberantly and/or as a swear

5. Favorite Colloquial word: Boozahol

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) What's your favorite word? Ubiquitous.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? I have two: Puta - Spanish (Latin American Spanish) for bitch. Shite - Scottish for shit, a much more fun and elegant way to say shit and still have people know what your speak of, no?

3) What's your least favorite word? Becoming
"That color is very becoming on you." Ugh. Stupid ass word.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Rode hard and put away wet" not because I am hard looking (at least I hope not) but because that is what I feel like most days and also "Well, bless your heart" because some Southerners tell me it is a polite way of saying "Well, fuck you". And I always try to be polite.

5) What's your favorite regional word? Pop - yeah, I'm Midwestern.

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? Pulchritudinous.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Schadenfreude, though that has been appropriated by a good portion of English-speakers, so I'd say pamplemousse (french for grapefruit) as a backup.

3) What's your least favorite word? nauseous. It sounds like what it means.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "More fun than a barrel of monkeys" because I love the mental image it conjures.

5) What's your favorite regional word? Yermommerenem. Obviously, Southern dialect, as in, "Say hi to yermommerenem."

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.

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.

causabon: my favorite fictional word is "clapter" for applause. I use it all the time and wish it was a real word!

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

Favorite Word (Epithet): Slattern/Trollope
Favorite Word in a Foreign Language: Mes enfants (French) I use it frequently as an endearment.
Least Favorite Word: Panties (just cannot say it but love the Pachuco (Spanglish) version of the word: Shumares.
Favorite Colloquialism(s): (1) "And the people in Hell want ice water--some with a straw" (2) It don't get that dark; I don't get that lonely.
Favorite Regional word: All Y'all (because y'all ain't inclusive enough!).

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

1. favorite word: esoteric
2. favorite word from another language: tchotchke (Yiddish for trinket, bauble; as in, "Did you buy ANOTHER useless tchotchke at that yard sale?")
3. least favorite word: the "c-word"
4. favorite colloquialism: "could you vague that up for me?"
5. favorite regional word: (not my region, but I aspire to it)swanning (off)

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) What's your favorite word? Echolalia (a psychological disorder in which the sufferer can only repeat another's words)

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Verlydelik (pronounced "fur-laid-luck" has a meaning similar to "provocative" in Afrikaans)

3) What's your least favorite word? Moist. Hands down. The only thing worse than the word "moist" is the phrase "moist panties"

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "It's gone all pear-shaped!" (Means whatever you're talking about has been royally screwed up in some way.)

5) What's your favorite regional word? Fixin', as in, "I'm fixin' to get me some pie."

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!)

1.) Favorite word-tiny
2.) Favorite foreign word-Châteauneuf-du-Pape. So much fun to say even though I know I'm butchering it. Also, ciao and puta madre!
3.) Least favorite word-ginormous
4.) Favorite colloquial expression-Fair to middlin'
5.) Favorite regional word-barbecue

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) What's your favorite word? Onomatopoeia

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Über. I like to add it to words all the time.

3) What's your least favorite word? More than any one word, I hate silly nicknames. If I meet someone that everyone calls Wiggles, I may have to find out his real name. That goofy shit bugs the hell out of me.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "It's hotter than the tits on a boar hound." I never really get to use this one, but I love it.

5) What's your favorite regional word? My ex boyfriend's mother referred to bell peppers as mangoes. Apparently, it is a common thing to say in Southern Ohio.

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)

RE: the above post.

The regional terms are all Aussie - just in case you couldn't tell from the kangaroo reference

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

1. Favorite word: aformentioned
2. Foreign word: pantalones
3. Least Favorite: lube, particularly when used in "lube job"
4. Colloquial Expression: "for crying out loud!"
5. Regional word: "totally" as a response.

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'.

1) What's your favorite word? Didactic. No idea why. Also, from my AP English class in high school, whenever I hear someone say "Indeed", a little voice inside my head says "Candide".

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Two: First is schadenfreude, second is langosta (Spanish for lobster). It's just fun to say.

3) What's your least favorite word? Moist! Glad I'm not the only one. I hate mispronunciations more than anything though. Things like exspecially, irregardless, and ma-TOOR (instead of ma-chure).

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? Texas-colloquial "Shut my mouth!", California-colloquial "Dude. Serioulsy?" I have about 300 different inflections for this phrase, and each has a different connotation.

5) What's your favorite regional word? Janky. I don't know if that's regoinal though. I don't hear it very often. How about joder? That's kinda like "Oh fuck" in Spanish.

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)

So surprised there aren't more Yiddish words since Yiddish is THE greatest language ever!

1. Favorite word: FEBRILE which means feverish
2. Favorite foreign word; almost any Yiddish word esp PUPIK (bellybutton....say it, it's funny)
3. Least favorite word: cunt
4, Favorite colloquial expression: YOU CAN'T DANCE AT TWO WEDDINGS WITH ONE TUCHIS. Which means you can't be in two places at once (tuchis= butt)and you can't do everything.
5. Favorite regional word: SNOG...a Britishism for making out or fucking, depending on the inflection etc.

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.

Favorite word: "Orb." It's like a haiku, compressed into one syllable.

Favorite word in a foreign language: "Pamplemousse," French for grapefruit. One of approximately 10 words I can say in French. (I'm fluent in Spanish and love it, but nothing in that language can beat pamplemousse.)

Least favorite word: Not so much the word itself as the incorrect usage of "literally". Because if it goes on much longer, I will literally kill people who don't use it properly.

Favorite colloquial expression: "Not trying to," used as you would "doesn't want to." E.g. "She's not trying to hear that."

Favorite regional word: "El Burque" (Albuquerque for Albuquerque)

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?)

Oh, I love tuchis. I need to put it next to oligarchy.

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

I need to think about stuff like this more often. I'm totally serious.

1. Haggard. As in, "Why does Helena Bonham Carter constantly look so haggard?"
2. I have honestly never thought about this.
3. Supple. Pleasure. UGH.
4. Mother of God, but only when it's being said by Michael Bluth when he's being burned by a cornballer. Otherwise, motherfucker.
5. I wish I could think of some good Bostonianisms, but I really can only think of them when they're coming out of my mom's mouth. I guess I'll have to go with "pizz-er" for pizza.

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

Favorite word? strumpet
Favorite word from a foreign language? bruschetta
Least favorite word? values (as in family)
Favorite colloquial expression? A tie between "fixin' to" ("I'm fixin' to go to the store") and "that'd knock a buzzard off a shitwagon" (re: foul odors)
favorite regional word? dad-jim (the little old ladies here use it as a substitute for "damn", as in "Fhat dad-jim dog's been digging in my flowerbeds again!"

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.)

Dad-jim typos.

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)

1) Favorite Word: Sensual

2) Favorite Word from a Foreign Language: Pinche or Chuta (Both spanish Cuss words)

3) Least Favorite word: Broken

4) Colloquial expression: Half Past a Monkey's Ass...

5) Favorite reagional expression: Tied between three: 1) Y'all cuz it can be both singular and plural as used in the sentence "I know what y'all are thinking and all Y'all can f$#@ off. 2) Wicked and 3) Sumbitch (anywhere out side of Texas it's Son of a Bitch, but in Texas, it's one word...and it's a beaut!)

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...

Favorite word: "linoleum", especially if you draw out the "0" for about 3 seconds.

Favorite word in a foreign language: "trabajabamos" - Spanish for "we used to work". I dare you to say it without giggling like mad.

Least favorite word: Moist.

Favorite colloquial expression: "Quicker than two shakes of a lamb's tail"

Favorite regional word: "directional" Meaning: turn signal. From either Chicago or Wisconsin. I associate it with my mother swearing during traffic, and only recently found out it was slang.

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.

Cecilia: it's "Backpfeifengesicht" - a face that cries out for a fist in it. German is awesome.

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

1) What's your favorite word? Antidisestablishmentarianism.

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

3) What's your least favorite word? Elite

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "You look like you was ate by a coyote and shit off a cliff."

5) What's your favorite regional word? Left Coast (how folks on the east coast refer to the west coast).

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!")

Favorite Word: Cormorant
Favorite Foreign Word: Fledermaus. German for "bat".
Least Favorite Word: Dollop.
Favorite Colloquial Expression: "With bells on." or "Cooler by the lake"...always heard it growing up.
Favorite Regional Word: "East Side" (neighborhood I grew up in, though Chicagoans claim there is no East Side. totally false.) or "pop" as in "s*da".

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.

SOOOOO glad I'm not the only one on here who HATES the word moist. I really thought I was alone on that.

Also, "Pamplemousse" is a freaking awesome word. Almost better than "Verlydelik." Come on. Say it. You know you want to.

I'm just going to start calling people pamplemousse randomly from now on. Seriously. I'm going to use it like every day.

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

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

1) What's your favorite word? Sweetpea

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Have to go with the French phrase, "en un clin d'oeil" (in the twinkling of an eye). Never, ever let a French teacher, who speaks English with a strong Scottish accent, try to get her class to incorporate colloquialisms in their essays. It's been twenty-odd years but I still crack up thinking of essay after essay where the whole class worked in "en un clin d'oeil."

3) What's your least favorite word? Nuclear. Thank YOU, President Bush.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? My mom swears that "chasing the birds" was a common phrase where she grew up, meaning throwing away something you'll want later. "You'll be chasing the birds for that concert ticket when you have nothing to do Friday night."

5) What's your favorite regional word? Tea, meaning of course, iced tea sweetened with sugar to the point of being gritty.

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.

Favorite Word: colligative
Favorite Foreign Word: kopfschmerzen (German for headache) or rippogakusha (Japanese for rabies)
Least Favorite Word: mealy (as in mealy-mouthed, ewww)
Favorite Colloquial Expression: fuck you and the horse you rode in on
Favorite Regional Word: rid (as in "rid up your room" for "clean your room")

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: masonry. Runner up: midwifery

2. Favorite foreign: Trennungsangst (German - separation anxiety)

3. Least favorite: monies. GOD!!! If I had any power in the world, it would be to make that not a real word. I have never heard a use for it that wouldn't sound better if it was worded differently.

4. Favorite colloquial: Fussy britches.

5. Favorite expression: "It's not rocket surgery." (Not really regional, but oh well)

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.

for Lizzy :
Invader Zim -"Once we acquire earth monies we will be able to buy the earth! And conquer it once and for all!!"
Now that is an appropriate use of "monies"

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.....

I hate when people use the word "whilst."
My God, just say "while" and forgo the pretension.
lol

I also hate when people say "basically" a thousand times. It's a tic just like "like."

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: juxtaposition

2. Foreign words: zanahoria (Spanish for "carrot") and coquelicot (French for "poppy")

3. Least Favorite: panties, followed shortly by pantyhose

4. Colloquial Expression: I have two, both courtesy of my dad -
"Well I'll be dipped in shit." - term of amazement
"He sure pooped in his lunch pail." - said in disbelief at someone who really fucked up

5. Regional word: mushkabibble - an old, midwestern Czech-American word for "mess," as used by my mom

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."

Fav word - melifluous
Fav in other language - pantuflas - means "slippers" in Spanish. Also LOVE - ursinho poof - is winnie the poo in Portuguese.
Least fav word - no. Also, the next time someone says "from my perspective" my brain may just implode.
Fav expression - just can't go past "Jesus suffering fuck!", but there's always a place for "care to make it interesting?"
Fav regional word - probably "wanker", also "to crack the sads" - to get rather upset about something.

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. Favorite word: Coreopsis. It's a type of flower and it's really fun to say, especially the "opsis" part.

2. Favorite foreign word: I studied German for a while, so there are so many words I love (like genau (exactly) and pfeifen (whistle)) but the best one is one that I read in a collection of Hesse poems: Märchenaugen. I don't know if it is an actual word, but it literally means "fairy tale eyes" and is used to explain how children see the world. How awesome is that?

3. Least favorite: Sliver. Doesn't sound real; it sounds like it is trying to take over "Slither"'s turf.

4. Expression: "Whatever floats your boat." My grandma always said the variation "Whatever turns you on" and that always creeped me out a bit.

5. Regional word: Mosey. May be my favorite Ozarkian word that no one uses any more. It conveys a type of relaxed walking that no other word gets across. "He decided to mosey over to the store and get some beer and bullets."

Runner up is "holler", as in call. "Give me your phone number and I'll holler at you some time."

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. 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? Darling

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Ohiogozaimasu (Japanese for good morning)

3) What's your least favorite word? slut

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "More (blank) than Jesus." Used primarily by a guy named Phil that I went to college with. ex. "Damn! You have more beer than Jesus!"

5) What's your favorite regional word? Sweet! (So-Cal style)

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.

1)What's your favorite word? Fetishistically or discombobulate.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? ay dios mio - more of an expression than a word. must be said as dramatically as possible.

3) What's your least favorite word? it's not really a word, but is often mistaken for one - irregardless.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Six of one, half a dozen of the other."

5) What's your favorite regional word? "hella" everyone knows you're from the bay area once you slip that into a sentence.

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

1) What's your favorite word?
Narcissistic, followed shortly by bravery.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language?
Geschirrspuelmaschine (German for dishwasher)

3) What's your least favorite word?
carbuncle

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression?
"A whole nother." You hear it all the time in the midwest, rather than "another whole", it's "a whole nother."

5) What's your favorite regional word?
...I don't know. I can't think of one right now.

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.

1. egregious (this week)
2. Frauenstimmen- female voices
3. crusty- I hate this word, except when describing bread and only bread.
4. This red-hot minute
5. I lived in the Bay Area and in LA... "hella" and "sweet". But I don't say them together.

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? Pimlico, it's a place in London and I don't know why but the word gives me shivers. Also contendors are vanilla, plethora and bollocks

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? schadenfreude and weltschmerz tied, both German and both beautifully descriptive.

3) What's your least favorite word? It's a tie between snog and shag, way to make something passionate and slightly dirty sound like something out of a kid's cartoon guys!

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? For Fuck's sake!

5) What's your favorite regional word? Any form of the word owt: Usage "D'you want owt from shop?" or classically in the negative as N'owt. It's a Yorkshire phrase and as I lived with two northern lasses for years I kind of picked it up. Sounds ludicrous in my Oxfordian English accent but I am unable to stop myself from using it.

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").

Oh. My. God.

This is the best comment diversion with the funniest replies ever.

I keep hooting aloud at my computer screen, between people making me say "Yes, YES!" in profound agreement and people just making me laugh with some hilarious word or phrase.

It's way too late in the thread to add my input, as most would be repeats of previously-stated favorites ... save one:

Though I now live in France, I grew up in New York State. My favorite regional word is one that I think is geographically confined to New York's Orange-Ulster-Sullivan counties, and it's more of a regional pronunciation than a regional word per se.

The word, on paper, is "drawer." As in, the thing in a desk, or in the kitchen.

But it comes out of my mouth as "draw."

And I'm not alone.

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

Favourite word: Imbecil. I don't know why.

Favourite word from a foreign language: faenskap (Norwegian word for...devilry/mischief/fuckery)

Least favourite word: bland

Favorite colloquial Expression: Buggered if I know

Favourite regional word: hestekuk (it actually means horsedick and it's an especially funny swear word from the North of Norway)

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? Gusto


2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Wanafanana (Swahili for "They look alike.")

3) What's your least favorite word? Moist


4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "This place needs red up." (note the missing infinitive.)

5) What's your favorite regional word? gumband (southwestern PA for "rubberband")

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? Panamanian. Or megalomania. Those swingy-around words.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? I don't know how to spell it, but the French word for "elephant," which is pretty much pronounced the same as the English word for elephant, but Frenchly. To me it sounds like "lellyfahnt." So I love it.

3) What's your least favorite word? Overexaggerate, which I hate for not being a word, but I will include it because I fear ungrammatical colloquialisms creeping into the English language. (Now I am sure I will spell a lot of things wrong, to puncture my sense of superiority.)

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Mad as a fish." As in crazy. As a fish. I can think of few saner animals. Fish barely register as alive.

5) What's your favorite regional word? Pissah. Bizarre, amorphous, and Bostonian.

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? Farewell. Or spatchcock.

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? "Le qu'en-dira-t'on" - literally, French for 'what will people say'? In one word!

3) What's your least favorite word? "Committee". I don't like the sound, the meaning, or the look of it: three double letters. Yuck.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "Same dog, more hair on."

5) What's your favorite regional word? "Cor!"

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)

favourite word : upgrade

favourite foreign word : papiervampier. It means stapler in Afrikaans.

Least favourite : Aardvark. Just rubbish.

Expression : face like a welders bench.

Regional word : Sound. A general exclamation of goodness (from Liverpool).

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.

1) Fave word- Packet

2) Favourite word in foreign language - Spiritus (Latin nominative for soul/breath) - it just drips off the tongue like honey

3) Least fave- Moist- it is just, well, ewwww

4)Fave expression- You could have knocked me over with a feather (probably because it reminds me of the Marx Brothers in Monkey Business)

5) Fave regional - 'Our Kid' - yes, it is two words. Scouse for 'my younger brother/sister'.

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

Frank--I'm with you on "moist". I'll take moist over "wet" any day. Wet never sounds good. I hate that expression "all wet". Always sounds dirty to me, in a squeamish-icky way.

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? Onomatopoeia
2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Sacapuntas (Spanish for pencil sharpener) or Murcielago (Spanish for bat)
3) What's your least favorite word? "Funky" when used to describe something unique, or more usually, anything original from the past 40 years.
4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "as fine as frog fur" - I've only ever heard my dad say it.
5) What's your favorite regional word? "bubbler" in Massachusetts (aka a water fountain) is great.

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

Brent in Australia-
I dunno why, but most of my friends and I also say "Yeah, no" for "No" and "No, yeah" for "Yes". No ones knows why and we can't seem to stop.

I want to add to the love for "fixin' to" as well as "whole nuther". I honestly don't know how to say what "whole nuther" means in real English.

Um, Brent, ew.

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

1) What's your favorite word? Aegis

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language?
Maskirovka - Russian for "camouflage" - itself a pretty cool word.

3) What's your least favorite word?
Being Canadian, it's easy. "Eh!" it's like the canadian version of the most telling red neck saying. Ugh.

4) What's your favorite colloquial expression?
xxx called, they want there xxx back.

5) What's your favorite regional word?
"Rig rocket" - meaning a 4x4 truck all tricked out (as most Oil rig workers up here have wayyyy too much money and love their pick ups

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- 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) expectorate (think "Expect...orate" that makes me giggle)
2) shiza...yes, I'm immature like that sometimes.
3) c*nt
4) "Finer than a frog's hair split three ways!" (reminds me of a grandfatherly old coworker)
5) when Minnesotans around where I live say they're going to eat somewhere, it's always "We're going to eat some Subway." Not Subway food, just Subway. Cracks me up.

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? "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? ethereal
2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? to say? "quoi?" - in general, "weltschmerz," sadness on thinking about the evils of the world.
3) What's your least favorite word? flaccid, or turgid.
4) What's your favorite colloquial expression? "holy crap mackerel!" (I say this frequently.)
5) What's your favorite regional word? does "bejeezus" count? if not, "chigger."

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.

Fav word: angelic
Foreign language: Geborstag: Birthday in german. useless I know but I remembered it from class
Least fav word: slurp
colloquial: For the love of Mike! (Usually said when I'm trying Not to say "For Fucks Sake"!)
Regional: Do what? used instead of I'm sorry I didn't hear you or excuse me, what was that you said?

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. Fav word- Juxtapose or Draconian
2. Foriegn word- Schadenfreude
3. Least fav word- Pyscho
4. Fav phrase- Up shit creek without a paddle.
5. Regional word- Bloody

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.)

1) What's your favorite word? Concatenation or Soporiphic

2) What's your favorite word from a foreign language? Landesohyt (Guaranteed by the Peace of Ausburg in 1555, landesohyt gave