What a word!

Excellent word ferry23 I have seen it written down but have never had cause to use it in conversation.

Sometimes, we remember the when & where of learning a new word. For verisimilitude, I was reading a review of the film, 300. Ever since, I've been fascinated with this word! But I only rarely find opportunities to use it!

Here's a fun word for you
Onimonipea
Which are words that make sounds - Bam! Pow! Whoosh, goes the wind
Pronounced ah' nuh mah' nuh pee' uh
Say it fast 3 times!
;-)

Gmax3

Here's a fun word for you
Onimonipea
Which are words that make sounds - Bam! Pow! Whoosh, goes the wind
Pronounced ah' nuh mah' nuh pee' uh
Say it fast 3 times!
;-)

Unfortunately, you pee-uhd up the wrong tree.

You meant onomatopoeia, which is pronounced an entirely different way.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia is a word that is reasonably well used. I would have thought fairly standard basic English Language learning

I love words too, and learning Spanish on Duolingo I recently came across the word 'ubicacion' meaning specific location. I just love that word

ferry23

I'm probably stretching things a bit putting this here, but I learnt a new word today and it's wonderful. I keep saying it -

verisimilitude -

perhaps everyone else knows this word, but I didn't. Just a wonderful word 🙂

I learned this word from Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado, where Poo Bah says he added 'merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and unconvincing narrative" (to explain why he added colourful and comically unbelievable detail to the fabricated story of Nanki-Poo's execution.)
Ah the days of G&S!

In my 20s, I read all the novels of Iris Murdoch and quickly realised I was encountering a new word or three with each one. What a writer she was!
One of my favourites was (and still is) "persiflage" - it's almost onomatopoeic as, to my ear anyway, it sounds pretty much like what it is. I do use it sometimes, though not as often as I should, given all the meaningless yattering that goes on in the world nowadays! I just love an author who can use a word like that as naturally as any other.

I love the word 'petrichor' which is the smell you get after a shower of rain when it hasn't rained for a while - my son taught it to me a few years ago! There was not much call for that word this summer!

Thanks Ferry23. I have come across this word but I don't believe I've ever used it. Ill try harder.
Onomatopoeia is familiar I think to every school pupil who has attended an English lesson.

Longdistancegrnny I can smell the freshly fallen rain on the ground at the mere mention of PETRICHOR, I’m with you it’s wonderful.

Gmax3

Here's a fun word for you
Onimonipea
Which are words that make sounds - Bam! Pow! Whoosh, goes the wind
Pronounced ah' nuh mah' nuh pee' uh
Say it fast 3 times!
;-)

Don't you mean Onomatopoeia, which is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests a sound that it refers to.

How on earth do you pronounce it without tripping over your tongue: so to speak.

A bit of a mouthful.!

I've found using the dictionary option on a kindle very useful. Sometimes I look up words not often used that I think I know the meaning of to find the true meaning might actually be very slightly different. Sorry can't think of any examples.

I usually have a favourite word on the go. One of my favourites, at the moment, is recalcitrant. I use it every day when anything, or anybody, refuses to work properly or to co-operate e.g. I can't remove a lid? This lid is being recalcitrant! If I can't remember something? My head is being recalcitrant today! My sewing machine refuses to work properly? Damn this recalcitrant machine!

Longdistancegrnny

I love the word 'petrichor' which is the smell you get after a shower of rain when it hasn't rained for a while - my son taught it to me a few years ago! There was not much call for that word this summer!

I’m a Dr Who fan and this came up in a couple of episodes back in 2011, fantastic word that I hadn’t heard before.
Isn’t the English language great!

Longdistancegrnny

I love the word 'petrichor' which is the smell you get after a shower of rain when it hasn't rained for a while - my son taught it to me a few years ago! There was not much call for that word this summer!

Lovely! But is this the same as what I call the smell of GREEN? When you walk in the woods after rain there is a gorgeous smell which I assumed was the wet leaves. I never connected it to soil because in my mind it's the smell of greenery. 🌳

DotScot

ferry23

I'm probably stretching things a bit putting this here, but I learnt a new word today and it's wonderful. I keep saying it -

verisimilitude -

perhaps everyone else knows this word, but I didn't. Just a wonderful word 🙂

I learned this word from Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado, where Poo Bah says he added 'merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and unconvincing narrative" (to explain why he added colourful and comically unbelievable detail to the fabricated story of Nanki-Poo's execution.)
Ah the days of G&S!

I'm a bit of a G&S fan myself. Love The Mikado - thank you DotScot for pointing that out.

And of course, no other word would do - it fits perfectly.

All those years it must have completely gone over my head !

Keep them coming - really interesting!

One of my favourite words for a while was ‘swive’. Relating to reaping. Until I found out it’s other meaning.

I have always been interested in words and grew up with masses of words and expressions that have sadly, now bitten the dust.

As a nation we used to be very proud in the number of, and variety of words the English Language.

There was a lot of showing off in the use of words and who used them. Also TV Quiz Programs dedicated to words. Good fun

Versimilitude was used a lot by Arts Critics and Drama along with juxtaposition when discussing new works.

Some of the legal terms sounded very harsh Remember gross moral turpitude and assault and battery?

I love wonderful words too. I used to love the Readers Digest which used to have a quiz about less usual words. It almost made a visit to the GP worth it as they used to have the magazines in their waiting room.

WithNobsOnIt

I have always been interested in words and grew up with masses of words and expressions that have sadly, now bitten the dust.

As a nation we used to be very proud in the number of, and variety of words the English Language.

There was a lot of showing off in the use of words and who used them. Also TV Quiz Programs dedicated to words. Good fun

Versimilitude was used a lot by Arts Critics and Drama along with juxtaposition when discussing new works.

Some of the legal terms sounded very harsh Remember gross moral turpitude and assault and battery?

Gross moral turpitude... wonderful 😊

In many years IT work, I must have created and/or edited hundreds of documents.

I've also just stopped being the editor (on a rota) of the village magazine, after about 30 years or so.

I don't recall seeing or needing 'verisimilitude' - plenty alternatives are available. I'd have a wager that most of the population hasn't a clue what it means.

Mind you, with the standard of education for the last 3 or 4 decades, that's hardly a high bar, is it?