I said superfluous and was roundly mocked by my students.

I have a penchant for using the word "penchant".

I use the word "Indeed!" far more often than my general level of fanciness deserves.

Purportedly. I need to stop reading the Tech Report so much.

Also, neighborino.

Standard Def Steve wrote:

Also, neighborino.

Shut up Flanders!

Stupid sexy Flanders!

The words eloquence, retrograde and miasma have been in my vocabulary as of late (all work-related, of course).

I find the word 'mimic' beautiful. I don't know why

Confess you dirty anglo-saxons, you have been conquered by the magnificence of Latin derived words.

I find myself using 'irrespective' and 'irregardless' a lot.

mirh wrote:

Confess you dirty anglo-saxons, you have been conquered by the magnificence of Latin derived words.

A que te refieres mirh? Yo, Anglosajon? De donde sacaste semejante idea? 🤣 😕

(And no, I'm not going to translate this 😁 ).

sliderider wrote:

'irregardless'

Just say "regardless" instead of being party to the perpetuation of this thing.

ripsaw8080 wrote:

sliderider wrote:

'irregardless'

Just say "regardless" instead of being party to the perpetuation of this thing.

Yeah, in order to sound fancy it needs to be proper English. I had a high school teacher who would just about slap people for saying that. 😀

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Using the word Inadvertently recently made me feel a bit weird.

JayCeeBee64 wrote:

mirh wrote:

Confess you dirty anglo-saxons, you have been conquered by the magnificence of Latin derived words.

A que te refieres mirh? Yo, Anglosajon? De donde sacaste semejante idea? 🤣 😕

(And no, I'm not going to translate this 😁 ).

Wow such spaniards, so similar to venetian. 🤣

ripsaw8080 wrote:

sliderider wrote:

'irregardless'

Just say "regardless" instead of being party to the perpetuation of this thing.

Irregardless is an actual word. It's in the dictionary.

And despite rumors to the contrary, 'ain't' is also an actual word. That ought to bring out the grammar Nazi's.

sliderider wrote:

And despite rumors to the contrary, 'ain't' is also an actual word. That ought to bring out the grammar Nazi's.

They'd probably be more concerned with your usage of apostrophes before the plural -s. 😉

Word I try to never use: Tho (shorthand for although). I can always rewrite a sentence to use "But" instead.