what do you remember learning new word?
@amadeo (111938)
United States
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
23 Sep 18
Here is a new word for you Alfredo. It is a Welsh word! Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. I doubt you could even say it let alone spell it. (True not a joke)
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
23 Sep 18
@amadeo It is the name of a village in Wales. Translated it means "Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave"
Very interesting:
There is a joke about a tourist who was in a restaurant in the town. She asked the waitress if she could tell her very slowly the how to pronounce the name of this place.
The waitress said very slowly. B-u-r-g-u-r K-i-n-g..
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@GreatMartin (23671)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
22 Sep 18
You forget we are so smart and so many years of 'smarts' and words in our head that we have to dig through them to get them out!
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
22 Sep 18
I love discovering new words
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
22 Sep 18
@amadeo there are quite a few websites listing obscure forgotten words
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
22 Sep 18
@arthurchappell your so good at th is.
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@snowy22315 (182204)
• United States
23 Sep 18
sometimes I do, most I forget..and some I remember. I ran across the Portuguese word Obridgado recently and it means Thanks. I thought that was interesting because there is an Obrigado restaurant in town. It has decent food.
@just4him (317238)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
23 Sep 18
I'm trying to use words I'm not used to using in my writing. It helps to remember to use them in everyday life.
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
24 Sep 18
i like to combine new words, though i already know some, like 'frenemies, chillax' to name a few.
@freelancermariagrace (28690)
• Philippines
22 Sep 18
You need to use them every day so you won't forget. But it doesn't work for me. Hahaha. Sadly, I tend to forget things easily.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
22 Sep 18
@freelancermariagrace same here forget
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@popciclecold (39518)
• United States
23 Sep 18
I try, but if I can't use it in any way, soon it's forgotten.
@jstory07 (139980)
• Roseburg, Oregon
22 Sep 18
Sometimes I learn new words.
I used to play look up a word and see what it means with my grandchildren. They had fun doing that.
@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
23 Sep 18
My senior year in high school, the English teacher was a stickler about teaching us new words. Every week she'd give us ten new words to look up in a dictionary and learn. Some of those terms, I've never seen them used once! Other words she gave us, I use them at times.
@db20747 (43440)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
22 Sep 18
My paw was always teaching me new vocab words!! One of the his favorites was surreptitiously which we learned last year!! And I see this word in many a newspaper!!! That is why I always got 100 and straight A's on every spelling test in school!!!!!