Logophile – A Lover of Words

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Logophile – that´s me!

God bless them – those word loving logophiles.

I was just thinking of some of my favourite words and their appealing sounds – scrotum, filibuster, trenchant, snuggle, spam, grunge, morbid, yokel and mulligatawny, for example.

They all start with consonants so here a few more that start with vowels – amanuensis, incontinent, euphoric, anthropomorphic, epistolary, unguent, anachronism, illicit and oleaginous.

I know it´s not a cunting but it makes a change from bollocking (incidentally, another of my favourite words) the BBC.

Fuck pride Month. Let´s have National Logophile Day!

Nominated by: Mr Polly

(More info here – DA  Word Spotters )

86 thoughts on “Logophile – A Lover of Words”

  1. Totally agree with this nom.

    My favourite word – pavement. It’s just the sound of it.

    Also,- idyllic, sonorous, serendipity, library and Iridescence.

    Nothing to do with the meanings. Just the sound.

    • LOL….I will now forever picture Mr.P. as a dicky-bow twirling, retired minor Prep school English teacher.

      • Lovely image Dick but my love of words Ied me to a life of hack journalism and thwarted dream of becoming a writer like Anthony Burgess or Somerset Maugham. I wrote a couple of novels and scores of short stories but they were so boring that I could not even reread them myself. ISAC has since aroused my Muse under the inspiration of the regulars who post here.

  3. “I was just thinking of some of my favourite words and their appealing sounds”…

    I’ve done some pretty odd things in my time but sitting thinking about my favourite words and their appealing sounds isn’t one of them….Have you considered taking up a wholesome hobby in your spare time,Mr.P ?….. I can recommend huntin’,shootin’ and fishin’ to keep from from straying into such bizarre areas.

  4. What’s the world coming to when self confesed logophiles are given a platform?
    Disgraceful.

  6. @Fiddler.
    Mobile home fully prepared.
    Ethel said, don’t forget to give the grass on our pitch a good cut.
    There’s a good gentleman.
    Morning, Dick.

    • I hope he is giving you and Ethel a reduced rate Jack, or are you paying your way with a few shifts dredging the moat?

      • Dont go when Fiddlestock is on LL!
        3day of peace love and groovy music in the Northumbria countryside!
        If you remember it
        You weren’t there, man.
        Mumford and sons headlining this year.

      • He’s promised us the five star 🌟 treatment.
        Whatever that is.
        Morning, LL.

      • Morning Miserable. I will go during the lull between Northumbrian Pride and the Doctors Without Borders fundraiser.

      • Jack, ive booked a week in the new wigwam at Dicks!
        Glamping its called.
        When I asked about it he said “yurt?”
        I said no im fine.

      • Morning, MNC.
        He’s a kindly old soul.
        He won the local villager of the year competition, but couldn’t attend the do after, due to some misunderstanding with the very nice landlady. 😁

      • DF@ – Not wishing to sound picky Sir Fiddler, but I think those hub caps could do with a buff!
        Do you provide cycle bays perchance? 😀

    • I have heard that a government inclusion and diversity inspectorate will be checking out large mansions in Northumberland to make sure there is sufficient numbers of BAMEs living and working in the area.

      Be prepared for a Knock on the door, Dick

  7. Mr P.

    How abaaaaht:
    Vociferous, plethora, tumultuous, translucent, salacious, cloying.

    • One for Miles – pontificate

      Did you know Miles that certain words from the Catholic church are used by French Canadians as curse words. For example, Tabernacle or Tabernaque means f**k or f***er

      • No I didn’t know that French Canadians Harold. Will look it up, thanks.
        I lke the word –
        ‘pontificate’. Can be used as a verb or a noun as you will know. We are living through Francis’ pontificate at the moment.
        Pontiff. Pont=bridge. So Pontefract will have meant broken bridge. Why for the Pope? Well, he’s the ‘bridge builder’ between heaven and earth.
        Or maybe just the bridge. There were Pontiffs before the popes I think. The title of a leader. It’s a borrowing.

  8. Used to love Call My Bluff on BBC2 back in the 70s. Robert Robinson as host, Frank Muir and that stuttering old cunt Patrick something, plus 4 guests.

    Simple but educational entertainment. If remade today it would be called “Don’t Talk Shit Innit” with the usual suspects and words of no more than three syllables.

    • Today’s Frank Muir would be Big Narsti.

      “God damn, backyard’s bangin’ like a Benzie
      If I was jiggy, you’d be spotted like Spuds McKenzie
      Ghostface Killah, “Ice Cream””

      Fucking illiterate garbage.

  9. Always fond of abundantly clear. It’s a way of telling someone yes I understand what you’re saying, don’t care, shut up.

  10. Nice Mr P but not really a cunting. So how about cunting our least favourite words?
    For starters, is there anything worse than ‘Malignant’?

  11. A favourite word from the old Latin translation, BorisiusJonsonusTotalCuntious

  13. Smithereens – just one of many Oirish treasures plundered by the Brits.

  16. There are funny times when you hear a word and suddenly sounds funny (as in strange). I mean it just sounds strange in the ear. I remember once saying the word ‘tribe’ over and over again. ‘tribe, tribe, tribe, tribe, tribe..’

    Funny the wird ‘funny’ is a funny word, a strange word. Strange itself has a strange sound.
    I think I’ll go back to bed.

    • I think that’s kind of in line with the theory of semiotics. If you repeat something enough you start to question why that word exists in that way. Also it’s “think of a cat” we all know what cats are but think of one and we’re not picturing the same one.

      • A philosophical maze. Did the sound suggest the word meaning or did the meaning come first?

        Answers on a postcard.

    • As soon as I think all possible combinations of letters are taken up by by English, take a look at any other language and each had countless unique combinations. Amazing

  17. I won’t use any words that come from Latin…I’ve never recovered from having to learn the likes of this shite as a child……
    Nominative Mensa Mensae
    Genitive Mensae Mensarum
    Dative Mensae Mensis
    Accusative Mensam Mensas
    Ablative Mensa Mensis
    Vocative Mensa Mensae

    It has also given me an abiding dislike of the Mensa ( and applied but failed) club members.

    • Morning Dick. That must explain why you never use the word nîgger.

      😃

    • You are Gerard Manley Hopkins and I claim my five guineas.

      I used to get 2% in Latin. I invariably spelled my name correctly.

    • I did Latin too Lord Fiddler and have a fond recollection of conjugating the verb “amare”:
      Amo amas
      I loved a lass
      And she was tall and slender
      Amas amat
      I laid her flat and tickled her feminine gender

    • I tried to find the Monty Python Aussie “no pooftahs” sketch on youtube the other day. Nowhere to be found. There was a similar sketch with John leMesurier, but not the Python one.

      • Some Mothers Do ‘Av ‘Em, when Frank says:

        “I’m the king of the pixies”

        and a kid shouts:

        “No you’re not, you’re a poof”

        Cracks me up! On YouTube, too. At least it WAS…

    • Poofter-when used by Spinal Tap’s manager Iain, in the eponymously (another good word) titled film-referring to Sir Dennis Eton Hogg.

  20. Parsimonious.
    As in:

    If (Harry/Boris etc) goes off script in public, (Meghan/nut-nuts) has threatened to be parsimonious in the boudoir.

    • I was going to post that. However, what about its use in the following:

      “After taking the knee and accidentally breaking wind, Anal-Ease was convinced she had followed through, as her Tenna pants felt suspiciously moist.”

      Not do good, there.😢

    • One of my all time favourite words has French roots, but I can forgive it….

      Defenestrate

      Unfortunately, don’t get the opportunity to use it very often.

      • You would never use ‘defenestration’ though. Such an old fashioned word. It’s out the window.

  23. Quite fond of the word clunge, which was created for a well known TV show some years ago.

  24. I like using medically-type words to first-aider know-alls. Dyspraxia, dysphasia, that sort of thing. The blank looks are a guilty pleasure.

  25. “Triggered”…Love the word and love seen it in action and without fail it’s always by the same people who claim to be not, or pointing the finger at somebody else claiming they are 😉

    What a beautiful morning…fuck off!

  26. I always thought a ‘logophile’ was someone who used a piece of timber for unnatural purposes.

  27. Working in the garden, whilst pondering on this nomination, I came to the conclusion that one of my favourite words is:

    Woodsmoke.
    Evocative if happier, simpler times😀

  29. Logophile: A rather slow way to carve wood.
    Logorrhoea: The unexpected release of a difficult motion.
    Logarithm: Lumberjack drummer.
    I’m gone.

  30. Oleaginous: this is my favourite word. How ever my dictionary definition would be:

    Oleaginous: adjective.

    1. Anthony Linton Blair.
    2. Exaggeratedly and distastefully complimentary. Obsequious.

    Obsequious is another of my favourites. Sycopahantic BLM libtard cunts.

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