Favourite words found

[lalatan]

Spike, I've played that word for records a few times over the last year. DrP blazed the trail for me with that one. There'd be about a quattuordecillionth of a chance of me ever coming up with that one on my own. I usually misspelled the prefix once or twice before I got it right. But now I finally have it straight in my head by pronouncing it phonetically.

The first time I saw it I looked up QUATTUORDECILLION: 1. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 45 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 84 zeros. adj. 2. amounting to one quattuordecillion in number. Quite a disparity in value between the UK and US! Thank God for scientific notation.

Nice find, kate!

[crazykate]

Today I found LYSOGENIZATIONS. Wasn't sure that was a real word until it got accepted.

[Spike1007]

I found that again, but it was on a board where I'm pretty sure that lalatan had already found it. I'm trying to take only new words this month, but there, I couldn't help myself. I liked it so much that I took it.

[Razorflame]

I think my current favorite word that I have seen found (I have not found it) was found by Spike as QUATTUORDECILLIONTHS? Pretty interesting

[Spike1007]

I didn't really have a choice. I started with DAMMER, stared a little bit, and saw that it was preceded by a GOTTER. That rang a bell, and I saw that if I put those together, I could add the -UNG. There was an S after that. I didn't have much faith in it, but I typed it. Anyway, I've gotten "better" words this month, but nothing that's amazed me so much.

[lalatan]

That was a great find, Spike! I would've never even considered stringing those characters together.

I found another new favorite word this week: LONGHEADEDNESSES for 30 pts & 2 records. At first I thought it might describe head binding or even maybe the alien in the movie of the same name. But it is actually the quality of having unusual foresight.

kate: I saw cobalt on a board this week and checked right away if it flowed into -ite. It did and there it was: SPHAEROCOBALTITE for 30 pts and 2 records. Thanks.

[Spike1007]

kate, thanks! I guess on its way into English & its ability to be pluralized with the -S, it lost its umlauts. Anyway, I'd never seen it before, but as long as it was there, I thought I'd try the plural (the English way). It makes me wonder whatever else they might be hiding here.

I've taken some German (although I'm a long way from being fluent, or even able to put together a couple of coherent sentences). Anyway, the path some German words & names take into English puzzles me. Of course, without umlauts, we make do by adding an E after an umlauted O (if that's a word at all), and then pronouncing the result as a long A. (I doubt if that applies to GOTTERDAMMERUNG. We didn't add the Es, and I assume that we just pronounce the vowels the English way.)

[crazykate]

A few days ago I found GOTTERDAMMERUNGS. I knew it was German & had something to do with Wagner. I didn't think it was an English word, but I couldn't imagine that it showed up in there by accident.

Amazing! German is my native language, but I can say with certainty that I wouldn't have found that word on a board. I often miss words with a German base, actually, because my mind dismissed German syllables as irrelevant in this game.
Also, without the umlauts and with the plural -S, the word looks very different to what I'm used to. My mind sort of did a double-take when reading it here because it looked so unfamiliar. (The pronunciation would be wrong without the umlauts, too.) I'm sure I wouldn't have recognised it on the board.
Well done to you for finding it!

[Spike1007]

A few days ago I found GOTTERDAMMERUNGS. I knew it was German & had something to do with Wagner. I didn't think it was an English word, but I couldn't imagine that it showed up in there by accident.

[DrPlacebo]

Oh, another repeat of a word I found and posted on the old forum: TORDION/TORDIONS. (Thank you, Peter Warlock!)

I'm still hoping to find BRANSLES and MATTACHINS at some point.

[bwt1213]

I was astonished today when "silken" was not accepted. I was sure I must have typed it incorrectly. Two more attempts, and no joy. Apparently, "silken" is not in the dictionary for some reason. If you haven't seen it before, it means: "having the qualities of silk; smooth, soft, sheerness, or delicacy". That's MY definition, not copied from anywhere (in case it is not precisely correct, no one else is to blame).

[DrPlacebo]

I love FUTILITARIANISMS!

My absolute favorite from before is still probably PROCRUSTEAN, which started the thread.

Also, just found today: CRIMINY!

[Spike1007]

Great word! I don't think I've ever found it or any of it's derivatives, although I have heard it before. I have to say though, that you probably don't have to worry about your average. I'm more or less stuck between you (as lalatan) & Dasan, and I don't see that changing. I found UNIFORMITARIANIST earlier today (for 32 points), but found UNIFORMITARIAN earlier on the board or only 20. I liked them both, so I took them, although it took down my average. I go up & down.

[thinkbig]

I could hardly believe I found PUSILLANIMITIES just now! It's a derivative of 1 of my favorite words, PUSILLANIMOUS, I learned from a word a day calendar 35 yrs ago. This was the first time I've seen it since I've played here. I set a record of 28 pts and, even though I'm playing as thinkbig and it would drop my avg, I just HAD to keep it.

[lalatan]

FUTILITARIANISMS is a beaut! Yeah, it was erakis who came up with the list. It was interesting; some of them were eyeopeners, I recall. It's really a shame that all that history from the old forum is blotted out. I just checked the member list for Aussie Mum, my hero when I played 4x4. She's still there but all of her stats got wiped out as if she'd never played. She didn't play much anymore for whatever reason and probably missed the notice about the server migration. Sad, sad