Phrases/words that you love

[kernelbogey]

By Polonius! That's good...

Thanks Jayne, I felt immodestly pleased. Perhaps I should write to the OED.
BW, kb

[mangerton]

Please may I have a second go? These were brought on by thinking about words to describe the "teeth on edge" words and phrases:

abysmal, deplorable, egregious

[Flosshilde]

cuisse

[Nick Armstrong]

cuisse

[vinteuil]

cuisse

... and is there a better name for a rose than this?

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisse_de_Nymphe_émue

[amateur51]

celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery
celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery

That was fun . anyway rubbish word.

I love pamplemousse , though. What a word.

I'm not allowed pamplemousse on account of my taking a statin - which suits me just fine. Low cholesterol AND no teeth-juddering acidity first thing in the morning - perfick!

[Nick Armstrong]

... and is there a better name for a rose than this?

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisse_de_Nymphe_émue

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm not allowed pamplemousse on account of my taking a statin - which suits me just fine. Low cholesterol AND no teeth-juddering acidity first thing in the morning - perfick!

Pink grapefruit at the weekend is one of life's luxuries, for me, ammy - sorry about your statin-related prohibition...

[amateur51]

is nugatory that chocolate that always gets left in the box at Christmas ?

oh no, that's gnugat

very good mercs

[amateur51]

... and is there a better name for a rose than this?

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisse_de_Nymphe_émue

Very lovely.

But does it have a decent whiff?

[Anna]

Frangipane
Glooming
Strew
Miasma
Strumpet

[Nick Armstrong]

Frangipane
Glooming
Strew
Miasma
Strumpet

Love the sequence!

Eee lass, it's like a proper poem, is that!

[amateur51]

Frangipane
Glooming
Strew
Miasma
Strumpet

Dylan Thomas would be proud, Anna

[mercia]

please could we have definitions of the words I don't know

quavering
crotchety
minimal
brevity

[vinteuil]

.

squirrel


Apparently a very difficult word for non-native speakers to pronounce flawlessly. And I think the same must be true for this animal in other languages - try

écureuil

eichhörnchen

scoiattolo

A good word in English, French, German, and Italian (I think.)