Draw Jan 26, winner: Ron S.

This one is short and sweet - what's your favourite word? And get a bonus entry into the draw if you tell us why!

• Post a link to your entry on Facebook, Slack, or email your entry to francesca.defreitas@gmail.com.
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• Your entry will be posted here for everyone to enjoy.

Entries this week

1. Madalena Leles Cohen: Saudade - a Brazilian Portuguese word to describe missing something or someone.
2. Alix Dem: Dolce - italian word for dessert, sweet, soft.. just a way of living that reminds me my year living in Florence
3. Tara: Pants - to me it’s the funniest word in the English language.
4. Celise Dent: Intrepid- so much inspiration from such a little word...
5. Sarah Kaye: Petrichor: the smell of rain on dry earth
6. Jenny Allan: Brilliance - two or more hummingbirds together are a brilliance.
7. Nels Anderson: sonder - n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you'll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
8. Brianne Elizabeth: Please- because it is the magic word!
9. Katherine Lee: Soliloquy- love how all the syllables sound together and roll off the tongue. Also, find myself doing this often when I’m WFH....or “talking” to the kids....
10. Shane O'Neill: Crepuscular
11. Marlene Yuen: Ligature - the wood type image reminded me about this typographical term when two letters are squished tightly together. For example: fl, fi, ae,
12. Kristie MK: A pair of words: axenic and xenic. Axenic is a microbiology word meaning a culture of one species that is free from any other living species. Is is derived from greek words and roughly translates as "not alien". It is oddly specific and an extremely useful word. And I love that the opposite is xenic and translates as an alien culture.
13. Ada says her favorite word right now is: unicorn
14. June says her favourite word right now is "blue"
15. Helen Stortini: I have four! Pamplemousse, parapluie, tokidoki (which is sometimes in Japanese), and trabajaba (worked in Spanish). I love how these words sound.
16. Katherine Hurley: Let’s go with: snowstorm
17. Matt Dolf: Maracuja
18. Liam: bradypus - it's the scientific word for sloth
19. Eoin: nagiakillanon - I made it up, if you are nagiakillanon it mean's you're it
20. Marisol’s favourite word is “sleep” because she loves to sleep but gets little of it.
21. Ron Santos: Mine is “bike” because life is more fun on 2 wheels.
22. Francesca: Mine is Nuts! because I can say it at work and no one knows I mean Bollocks!