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Your Favourite Words
Word: ambivalent
Reason: Sums up the spectrum of human emotion, emphasizing the lack of strong commitment to any one. Confusion, dissettlement overide. In retrospect the memory is blurred, hazy, uncertain. But there's the hope of hanging on until the fog lifts, the emotions resolve into something more solid.
Name: Sanjida Rangwala
Word: Canuck
Reason: I have always thought it to be a strange and bizarre word to name a Canadian. In fact, I am not even sure why the Vancouver NHL team is called the Canucks, but I have always liked the word. Some of my American friends have always thought that calling a Canadian a "Canuck" was an insulting term. I do not know how or why this came about. However, I have always liked the word as a Canadian slang for "a Canadian."
Name: Michael Honey
Word: eh?
Reason: It's distinctly Canadian! We say it when we make fun of ourselves; it makes foreigners smile to hear us say it; and even when we don't think we say it, we always do...eh?
Name: Karina
Word: eh?
Reason: Its use by Canadians labels us as such immediately in many countries to which I have travelled.
Name: Robert Niddery
Word: grotesque
Reason: Pronouncing the word defines it's meaning.
Name: Phil Capobianco
Word: Harya? & Wutchupta?
Reason: Okay, they're two words, but still they are my two most-used words. I love them because, when said, everyone understands the words as the sentences they abbreviate: "How are ya?" and "What'cha up to?" In text, I usually get questioned what the words are the first time someone sees them; but one explanation and people understand for a long time. Such simple words which sum up so much of what we say in our day-to-day lives... I love 'em! I can use 'em for life because they'll never go out of style!
Name: Kris Mancuso
Word: kronk
Reason: Good memories of my days in the service. Used it down in the foxholes, when the wind would pick up. We'd all "kronk" up to each other, using the old body heat trick. Ah, good times with kronk.
Name: Adam Makay-Smith
Word: love
Reason: With Love, everything is possible.
Name: Veronique Belair
Word: Pantheon
Reason: Pantheon from the Latin, Pantheos, "of all Gods" comes from the Roman temple built sometime in the 20 s BC,and was dedicated to all the Gods and I particularly like this word because it far outperforms other words which describe range and or a whole gammut of similarities whether they be objects, people, buildings or just a genre or class of items. I am endeared to Pantheon also because one doesn't see the word used that often and has therefore a certain snob value. Pantheon would only be associated when it oozed with the essence of that particular Group, not just a mere cluster of like minded objects or people. It defines a certain bond that binds them together - A pantheon of .......... Sorry only trying wax eloquent here, I use words which, most of the time I dont know the meaning of, but I thank you for this your quest for a favourite word!!
Name: Ravi Simon
Word: photophosphorescent
Reason: The word photophosphorescent has it all. It's scientific and impressive, but it describes something pretty, cool, and fun -- the stuff that glows in the dark after you charge it up with light. Despite its length, it's not that difficult to say, and, most of all, it sounds wonderful. All the ph and s sounds, mixed well, with enough vowels and a couple of ts to punctuate the rest. It sounds magical, and the green unearthly glow distinctive of something photophosphorescent looks that way too.
Name: Patricia Evans
Word: seen
Reason: The most misused word in Canada constantly used in place of "saw" by young,old, layperson and professional. e.g. I seen him !
Name: Edwin Vasan
Word: spoon
Reason: It sounds neat.
Name: Cam
Word: Tims
Reason: That good old caffeine fix....
Name: Michael Honey
Word: two-four -- (n) a case of 24 beer
Reason: The two-four is a uniquely Canadian word. The Americans have their six-packs, the British have their pints, but Canadians have the "two-four," the perfect number of domestic ales or lagers. Where else but in Canada could you hear "Pick me up a two-four, eh?"
Name: Jim Gifford
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