favorite word?
Oh we’re asking the HARD hard questions (/j)
I like luminescence/luminous because of the mouthfeel and what they represent. I like the word caribou for the same reason (if you know my main I’m obsessed lol)
Linguistically, if we want to get into the special interest, I’m endlessly fascinated by words that are just. Missing some of their tenses. For example: stride. What’s the past tense? Strided? Strode? Stridden? What about “to go”? Why is went a past tense? Went comes from “wend”, but all other forms of it have fallen out of use, and now “to go” just takes it.
Or just look up “unpaired words”. There’s a bunch, and I love all of them. “Defective verbs” too. There’s also verbs that just lack some forms! Look at this:
Also, if we have two endings that mean the same thing but are from different languages, they can block each other out! Instead of using lightity or darkity we have lightness and darkness.
We also lack some neutral versions of words:
And I know that this phenomenon happens with adjectives too (there’s a tumblr post about it!) but I forget what it’s called…