Word O'Th' Moment

[collissimon]

Have you got a word that you really like, or makes you think of something specific? Put it here!

'Turnip': My favourite word! I don't like the vegetable, but they're in a sitcom that is hilarious! Plus, it just sounds like a cool word!

[camper]

vegetable. it's weird b/c your fave word IS a vegetable collissimon, but vegetable has always been my favorite word. i just think it sounds cool and it reminds me of things i like like salsa and salad. lol.

[collissimon]

I found the coolest word yesterday... but have lost it! :(

I love the way Canadians say 'eh' at the end of everything though, I have tried to steal that, but not very successfully!

[who_stole_my_loofa]

My favorite word is Serendipity (a happy accident, or when good fortune comes from misfortune)!!

[CAMPFRIEND]

I can think of some words that I can't stand when people uses them: Like & Dude are two the drive me crazy! I will have to think of the one that I like the best?:speechls2

[runrachrunn]

Capitulate. I thought it meant to procrastinate, but in fact, it means surrender. I use it all the time now.

Oh, and discumbobulated.

[Sparkes]

I like my use of eh too Collissimon!
Though, some people don't. Another counselor at camp used to say "b" everytime I said eh. It was kinda funny.

My word though is whatdayaat. It's a word specific to the region I'm from, meaning what are you up to, and I use it all the time.

[Skater Bubbles]

I love the word Hippopatomus!! Just love it!!!

[collissimon]

That's an awesome word!

Lychee is a good one, they're a fruit that look like eyeballs, but taste like grapes.

[collissimon]

I was also reading a paper today, and 'slab' is a pretty cool word, you can just imagine someone dropping this huge thing as you say it.

Having said that, I was reading about a slab of chocolate, so maybe that's why I like the word at the moment!

[melon4382]

I love the word "Wicked" just because it reminds me of camp every time I hear it. In many New England states they say wicked before alot of things. For example, wicked cool and wicked hot. My camp is in NH. so it is ehard up there alot. It's just a fun word that brings me back to camp.

[diabeticflip]

I love the word, Nunwe. It is one we use at our camp whenever we are having a cool moment, but don't feel like clapping. Instead we all just say Nunwe, which is like saying, " Thats Cool". So to everyone on here, Nunwe!

[Kerrbear]

I love my use of the word "eh" as well. I also went through a phase in sec.4 (grade 10) when I was obsessed with saying the word "Boeuf" - it means beef in french and even though I don't really eat beef I thought saying the word really exagereated was hilarious!

[lifer]

I just like any word that's abbreviated easily.... like pressie, brekky, cossie, etc. I have always abbreviated my words but my friends always made fun of me. But I just got back from Australia and I def fitted in there ! ;)

[rockinsmiles]

How about befuddled? I've also got into the habit of saying "bloody" even though i'm american and i use the word "anywho" all the time. It drives my brother insane!!! Also "narely"...just cuz it reminds me of a friend, but I can't say it without it sounding all messed up! :D

[collissimon]

Befuddled is an awesome word :D

How about carbunkle? I don't know what it means, but it's definitely a cool word!

[Campy Measius]

hehehe.... this is a least favorite word story... Ashley, counselor I worked with a few years ago HATED the word "spatula", she thought it sounded dirty... lol so we used to tease her about it. But at the end of the camp we were doing 'operation shutdown' and my director found a whole box of spatulas (I have no idea... haha) so she passed them out to a bunch of campers and told them to get Ashley. Well they chased her around the camp trying to rub them on her, the staff were all cry laughing. We eventually found her hiding under a table... hahahah oh dear... so mean, but SOO funny!!

[collissimon]

:D I can understand why she doesn't like spatula!!

One of the campers in my unit last year didn't like the word Bellybutton: he said it made him feel all funny and weird, so no-one was allowed to say 'the b word', except all the kids thought it was hilarious to go up to him say it, watch him shudder and run off!

[who_stole_my_loofa]

haha campy--
your story reminds me that we have a repeat cheer that all the (9-11 year old) campers love and this is one of the verses: "ola ola eh, roll roll roll to the beat now, i dont know, just what it is, pioneer girls are awesome, we take the boys and toss them'

all the aussie staff always laugh so much when we sing this cheer cause aparently "toss" is a slang term for giving hand in aus? so funny

[Sparkes]

Man, I love the word wanker. And bollocks. Their just fun to say. It's like cursing, that isn't cursing because I don't live in the UK.

[Melk]

Man, I love the word wanker. And bollocks. Their just fun to say. It's like cursing, that isn't cursing because I don't live in the UK.

I agree but I still woldnt say them around campers

[Sparkes]

I don't. I say them to my friends. At home. Not in the same country as camp.

[collissimon]

:D But do you try and say it with an English accent?!?

Reminds me of last summer: usually instead of swearing I say 'Knickers', which is underwear, but my mum always used to say it instead of swearing when I was little. When I said it last summer, the kids were aghast! I was really confused until one of them shouted 'You can't say that! That's racist!' We then had a little chat about how collissimon doesn't say racist things, but does say underwear quite a lot!

[CAMPFRIEND]

How did the campers think that was racist?

[Sparkes]

We then had a little chat about how collissimon doesn't say racist things, but does say underwear quite a lot!

Thats so funny. Oh, American kids who don't quite comprehend slang from outside their country.

[rockinsmiles]

How did the campers think that was racist?

Probably because knickers sounds like another word that starts with an "n."

[Melk]

:D But do you try and say it with an English accent?!?


No. When ever I try to speek with an English accent it turns into a southern American accent.

One of the girls I work with HATES the words moist flesh. She will gag when she hears them.

[collissimon]

rockinsmiles is exactly right (have a carrot!), they thought I was insulting black people, which shocked me a tad!

Moist flesh!?! They are quite horrible words, did other campers say it deliberately? I think it was quite an issue in Bellybutton bunk!

You should try saying it in an English accent! I had a go at an American accent last summer, and it cracked them all up!

[Campy Measius]

Moist flesh!?? EWWW!! haha I can see why your friend hates those words... they sound gross! What I want to know is... how did that come up? lol how does one decide they do not like the words moist flesh to begin with? :P

[collissimon]

I suppose in the same way you don't like the words 'hard' and 'work' being put together! :P You find out the hard way!

It's not a word, but I don't like the feel of unglazed pottery, or terracotta: it makes me cringe.

[Melk]

I think moist flesh is something that was said during staff training. And since you only get a 24 hour grace period (if you are new) of us not making fun of you, and she has been going to camp for 5 years we all just kept poking fun at her. Its a good thing we all know that it just means that we love eachother.



That kinda diding make sence. Sorry.

There is only one word I hate and I wont post it cause it's dirty.

[Sparkes]

I say "oy" now too. Thats pretty high on the favorites list.
Skeet is another favorite of mine (it's like skid for you mainlanders, and for everyone else, it's like, those people who hang out in the mall all day long and never do anything but sit around in the enormously large puffy jackets even though it might be the dead summer. It describes those people.)

[collissimon]

Our newest urban tribe is probably the 'chavs', but I don't really like that word either!

[who_stole_my_loofa]

are the chavs the ones that wear all the fake designer stuff and try to look all gangsta?

[runrachrunn]

I say "oy" now too. Thats pretty high on the favorites list.



I tend to throw Yiddish words at people very very randomly. No one ever has any idea of what I'm talking about. But don't you love how you can apply "oy" to basically any situation?

If you like oy, I would suggest you check out Yiddish with Dick and Jane (http://www.vidlit.com/yidlit/)

R

[collissimon]

More or less yeah! I did a google search, and came up with a good pictures to show what it is!

I have the best Jewish track! I can't remember what it's called, but it's by 'Oi Va Voi' who do world music, and it's this old Jewish guy talking at the beginning... it's pretty cool.

[runrachrunn]

More or less yeah! I did a google search, and came up with a good pictures to show what it is!

I have the best Jewish track! I can't remember what it's called, but it's by 'Oi Va Voi' who do world music, and it's this old Jewish guy talking at the beginning... it's pretty cool.


collis
could you send it to me???

[who_stole_my_loofa]

I love how yall are falling into my(my meaning my people - lol - that still sounds stupid) Yiddish world!!! I use Yiddish all the time like everyday language and people are like wtf and then im like "oh sorry I always forget!" We use so much Yiddish in my house!

[runrachrunn]

I love how yall are falling into my(my meaning my people - lol - that still sounds stupid) Yiddish world!!! I use Yiddish all the time like everyday language and people are like wtf and then im like "oh sorry I always forget!" We use so much Yiddish in my house!

Loofa my mom teaches Yiddish, LOL. I can't help it :) I'm glad someone else knows where I'm coming from :D

[Melk]

my campers preformed to the Jewish version of "Hey ya!" at winter camp..... it was funny. I video taped it. I got to be a dradle (Sp?)

[camper]

oy my kids love the jewish stuff and yiddish is sooo common in my house too. its ridiculous.

[who_stole_my_loofa]

my favorite part about yiddish is that no one really knows the same words - its so fun when my friends and i learn new words from eachother. sad though - such a dying language.

[Sparkes]

If you like oy, I would suggest you check out Yiddish with Dick and Jane (http://www.vidlit.com/yidlit/) R

That was sooooooooo funny! Everyone should go check it out (and its kinda educational too!)

Schlep is my new favorite yiddish word!

[collissimon]

Oy Gevalt!

[Fleur]

Haha... that video rocks (and is now circulating amongst staff at my camp.)

[Thumbelina1988]

I found 'That's a field!' so funny.My favourite word is 'Myriad.' It means a very large, indefinite number and composed of numerous diverse elements.Or legion, many, multitudinous, numerous.I've never seemed to be able to use it but I like it.

[collissimon]

Nubbin is another good one.

[ArtisticEric]

Abound

[laurathistle]

random

[collissimon]

Hungry