Favourite words

[doodles]

Management speak is just, well stupid, a lot of the time, I mean what is bluesky thinking when it's at home? I can't stand

Touch base

[quasimodo]

Another daily mail article listing the six most unpopular words for women.

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[southbucks3]

I am going to come out in defense for the word moist.

Think of a lovely Victoria sponge or chocolate brownie as you bite into it.
Think of the texture of compost before sowing seeds in trays at springtime.
Don't thing of all the smutty schoolboy sniggering nonsense!

Now damp, that is horrid; it represents a drudge of a day, the need to continue blasting your head with the dryer, the disappointment when you want to sit on the grass, test it with your hand and discover it is "damp", washing that comes off the line but must be hung round the house on airers, see nothing nice about that word at all.

Subtle but important differences.

See......you know I'm right, reclaim "moist" from the gutter, it's a great word.

[ConfusedFather]

Moist is a very decent word, don't get why some people hate it.

My favorite word would be autarky, not in its political or economic sense, but more in its etymological meaning: "self sufficient". It is the first step (or rather a necessary condition) towards freedom.

[southbucks3]

Moist is a very decent word, don't get why some people hate it.

My favorite word would be autarky, not in its political or economic sense, but more in its etymological meaning: "self sufficient". It is the first step (or rather a necessary condition) towards freedom.

You sound very much like Tom Good, but on a bigger scale.

[ConfusedFather]

You sound very much like Tom Good, but on a bigger scale.

I don't have that cultural reference, so had to google it .

The character seems a bit too hardcore for my liking and is still bound to work (though of a different sort).

[southbucks3]

Ah, he still has lots of time for "tinkering" though, a favourite word of my husband's, which generally means I won't see him for many hours!

[Tinkers]

I like tinkering too. Both doing it and the word.

[MedievalBabe]

I like the word pottering.

Especially having a day where I can spend the day pottering around the house, always feel relaxed and happy at the end of it.

[doodles]

+1 for pottering MB

In fact in our house it now has verb status - to potter