These words need your help.
We opened our hearts and adopted philargyrist. It describes us. It is what we are. We are not ashamed to be philargyrists. We proclaim it proudly. We are philargyrists. And so, we think, are most of you. Especially our PF readers.
We love words.
We love the words that everyone loves, like defenestrate, callipygous (#2 Is that the one about having a beautiful butt? ‘Cuz whatever that word is, my sister loves it. Even though she isn’t and doesn’t. #1 I don’t know about beautiful, but definitely shapely. Having shapely buttocks. #2 It’s ironic because she has no butt at all. It’s just flatness. I can’t tell what she sits on. #1 My sister and I are quite callipygous.), gazebo, schadenfreude, pace (in sense 2, that is, with all due respect and noting the argument of*), and many more.
We love the more rare ones that should be used more often, like philargyrist, murklins, succisive, to name just a few.
What words do you love?
*we learned this excellent word by graduate school, even if CPP did not.
Grumpy Rumblings (of the formerly untenured) 
November 23, 2010 at 2:28 am
Visually, entrepreneur is one of my favourires.
I just signed up to A Word a Day at wordsmith.org…I feel like my vocab has been languishing so hopefully a daily boost will counteract that.
November 23, 2010 at 7:06 pm
languish, languishing languidly!
November 23, 2010 at 6:27 am
Malaprop! (substituting a word that sounds similar but is not the correct usage)
My ex-boyfriend use to call me ‘Malaprop Molly’. He would make fun of me and try to get me to stop using malaprops.
November 23, 2010 at 6:45 am
mmm delicious words
entrepreneur is a delightful slew of vowels
malaprop is palpable the way it rolls around your mouth as you say it.
November 23, 2010 at 7:26 am
zeugma. It’s short and so fun to say.
November 23, 2010 at 8:33 am
this was a new one to me!
I like wikipedia’s example: Mr. Brown took his coat and his leave.
November 25, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Hey! While you humanities dorkos were learning stupid greeke crappe like “pace”, I was learning important shitte in ENGLISH!!
November 25, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Social sciences are not humanities.
If anything we use more *English* than you science types.
November 25, 2010 at 4:38 pm
We *only* use ENGLISH like normal people, not like you weird greeke-loving freakes!
November 25, 2010 at 4:58 pm
I dunno, bragging about being ignorant sounds suspiciously like something an undergrad would do.
November 25, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Who’s bragging aboute being ignorant? Allz I’m sayin’ is that [expletive]e all that greeke shitte; English is plenty for normal people.
November 25, 2010 at 5:52 pm
uh huh