What is your favourite word?

[Corvette chic]

gnomic

 

[terry huckle]

Sesquipedalianism

Because of its meaning

(given to using long words)

 

[Tim Hall]

"Callipygous"

Having nicely shaped buttocks.

 

[jonesy]

I have already said my favourite English word, (synchronicity) but may I add Stumpfgleis? It is a type of Railway platform, but for trains that terminate at a station, rather than passing through. Reading has one, IIRC, and Swindon. I do not know what they are called in English.

[train spod]
Bay platforms.

[/train spod]

Sadly I have to spend rather a lot of my week at Reading platform 4a/4b

 

[Speicher]

[train spod]
Bay platforms.

[/train spod]

Sadly I have to spend rather a lot of my week at Reading platform 4a/4b

Thank you Jonesy. Despite lots of foreign holidays involving trains, lots and lots of trains, and track bashing, I did not know about Bay Platforms.
What btw the way is train spod?

 

[jonesy]

Thank you Jonesy. Despite lots of foreign holidays involving trains, lots and lots of trains, and track bashing, I did not know about Bay Platforms.
What btw the way is train spod?

Spod? I think it's the same as nerd isn't it? It was a self-deprecating comment as I've been discussing trains quite a bit this evening... but I'm not really ashamed of knowing lots about railways.

 

[Speicher]

I thought that was a Gricer!

I have been called a Train spotter and track basher in the past. and I used to be a TTI on the Severn Valley Railway.

 

[yenrod]

>What is your favourite word?

Happy

 

[jonesy]

I thought that was a Gricer!

I have been called a Train spotter and track basher in the past. and I used to be a TTI on the Severn Valley Railway.

Ah, well I don't go spotting or bashing (though did enjoy some recent visits to Didcot Railway Centre)- as it happens I work in transport consultancy, mostly not rail related but I do have some professional interest, but I'm also a regular rail user and take an interest in how things work and what they do- sadly, I've found it does make it easier to find your way round as a passenger if you know things like what types of trains are used by which operators and on what routes, especially if you've got a bike.

 

[Speicher]

Oh dear, are we in danger of de-railing this thread? IGMC

 

[Crackle]

And you've got all that written in a note book with pictures next to it, haven't you Jonesy. Come on admit it, I've seen the other thread and I've long suspected it anyway.

 

[Cubist]

Abbreviation. But I always wonder why it's such a long word.

 

[661-Pete]

So we're onto vogue German words are we? Ok, I'll throw another one in:
Bildungsroman
Actually a word I'm not over-fond of, but it seems to be used an awful lot these days, and I suppose I too use it a fair bit. Seems to cover the bulk of today's popular culture, e.g. the entire Harry Potter genre...

 

[661-Pete]

[train spod]
Bay platforms.

[/train spod]

Sadly I have to spend rather a lot of my week at Reading platform 4a/4b

Oh dear! Way off topic I'm afraid! I remember the bay platforms at Reading only too well, used to dodge London by getting the train from Redhill to Guildford and Reading, then change for a mainline train to Oxford or beyond...

Been scratching my head trying to remember if there's any such platform on the London-Brighton line. I don't think there is. There used to be one at West Croydon (not on the L2B line) which hosted the trains for the single-track line to Wimbledon, but that line's been converted to a street-level tramway, and I don't know if the platform's there anymore...

I'll get my anorak...

 

[Speicher]

Oh dear! Way off topic I'm afraid! I remember the bay platforms at Reading only too well, used to dodge London by getting the train from Redhill to Guildford and Reading, then change for a mainline train to Oxford or beyond...

I'll get my anorak...

Once you get beyond Oxford. well what can I say, you can go beyond Gloucestershire, and then into Worcestershire. Keep going into the back of beyond, and you arrive here.