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Nadia von Holzen's avatar

My favourite English word is Serendipity (I’m a German native speaker, and in German there is not even a good word for the combo chance and coincidence). It’s word with an inbuilt surprise effect, it starts so serious “seren…” than a hobble “…dip…” then an exclamation, the climax (listen!!!) “…I…” then the revelation “…ty”.

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Meredith Lewis's avatar

I never noticed it in this way before. Thank you!

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

What an interesting challenge. Thinking about this in terms of words in a novel or story … how might the associations work when some will be particularly personal. Nice prompt.

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Meredith Lewis's avatar

I'm glad that it was useful and your response to it is so interesting!

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Emma Stubbs's avatar

I love this! So many delicious words to choose from - I’m going for a German word - zukunft. It means future but it always sounds like a nicely rounded pebble dropping into a deep rock pool zoookuuunnft!

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Jax's avatar

Fun! Aqua - sounds like the smell of a French polo player after the match. Philip swept down from his horse and gave his mistress a kiss. She shooed him away. ‘Tu sens l’aqua!’

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