Re: 100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language

Posted by Dawne Peterson on October 28, 2009, 12:04 am

"Bruce Fletcher wrote
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The store where I work used to be visited by a Regional Manager from the
West coast who originally came from England. He used to point out ways we
could "snazzify" our displays. Some of us liked the word so much we kept
it, and use it especially when someone has made an evident extra effort with
their apparel, e.g. "Oh my, aren't you snazzified this morning!"

Dawne

Posted by 1961girl@gmail.com on October 28, 2009, 8:56 am

A couple of family words:

Ozarchitecture - tacky yard stuff, especially tires half buried and
used as decorations
Entrange - The range of prices at a restaurant

linda

Posted by ellice on October 28, 2009, 9:06 am

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Excellent words.

With my wondrous Caribou coffee job I declared "cupifiing" - putting stuff
into the cup, my Asst Mnger replied with"cupification", which went on to
"clutchify" and "clutchification" - those insulating sleeve things are
called clutches in 'Bou land. Important terms when doing a very busy
espresso bar in a store with a drive-thru and inside service.

Sadly, our new store manager (called "dimrod" by my DH) can't spell, and
after posting a trivia question using "Team's" for a plural, with
"proffesional" in the same question, he first argued, then didn't change
them saying people would think it's funny. Not. The entire day the
customers were regularly commenting, not in a happy, positive way - more to
the "is he an idiot" way. It's the DC area, these folks are all about their
gifted children and hi-tech jobs (though it's a very nice neighborhood in
friendliness).

Words are just so much fun.

Ellice - who has to run to go to EGA meeting. Yeah. I'm actually going to
stitch.....though not the program which is being "taught" by someone who
knows about nothing of canvas, it's a canvas piece, and the chapter is
loaded with skilled canvasworkers (not to mention the many who are published
designers, teachers, etc). But, what the heck....it should be amusing for
listening (trust me, some of us have nicknamed this person Baroness
Munchausen, the drama queen for her many unbelievable incidents and rude
interrupting of teachers) So, sorry for my snippet of mean - I'm girding
up.

Posted by on October 28, 2009, 11:46 am

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:56:22 -0700 (PDT), "1961girl@gmail.com"

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In certain parts of Nova Scotia we have 'flowers' in the garden which
are used vehicles in varying stages of rust out !

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