What is you're favourite word in the English language?

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Fraught

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SeanTheSheep said:
FATHER WAS WRONG ABOUT MOTHER!
And O-TD is Off-Topic Discussion.

Oh, and I believe Call tricked you into thinking he was making the obvious joke of saying gratuitous, but then didn't.
I believe the term used on TVTropes.org is Averted. (Or subverted, I can never remember. Either way, it was played with)
I was...I was...played? I was tricked?

Rrrargh POWER FURYYYYY!

*goes off on a rampage*
 

Nomanslander

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-neon
-fedora
-cellardoor (technically two words but how can so many writers be wrong through the years)
-brimstone
-moth
-slang
-sapia
-oblivion
-cumulonimbus
 

Altorin

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Sesquipedalian - ses-QUI-ped-al-i-an
n.
A Big Word.

Best dictionary definition ever.
 

mrblakemiller

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The longest word in the English language (that you'll find in a major dictionary) is currently Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It's a lung disease. Your word is the longest non-coined word, however. Thought you'd appreciate.