Kali, are you from the south, originally? I don't know how you could hate the contraction y'all. I can imagine many times when it's uttered in some insipid way (I like that word, "insipid") by a slack-jawed ignoramus, as in "Gawd, y'all, don't you just love it?" When it is naturally used in conversation it's kinda (ahem) nice.
I love words that describe something unique, perfectly. Ostensibly is a good one, like gradation or clarity or disjunct or isolated or coterminous, exhilarated and exhausted. Well, there are endless words, really. Certainly some sound nicer. Sibilants and fricatives and nascent and squeamish, mellifluous, or symplast.
I hate mucid and mucilaginous, though they're descriptive. I know someone who couldn't hear the word "slice" without squirming. |