favorite word?
I have to pick one? 🥺 I can't. I'll give you 5.
Defenestrate is always going to have a special place in my heart; I learned it from the same book series that had me realizing that coffee is a six-letter word where it's plausible to get every single letter wrong.
Amarillo is the Spanish word for yellow, but it always feels yellow-er than yellow does. I'm quite fond of that word.
μῦς is a great word because Greek has a thing where the M sound and the sm sound at the beginning of words will sometimes swap out for each other, therefore giving you σμῦς, and is there anything cuter than that??? (Its pronounced like smoos, by the way. And it means this guy: 🐁 !!!! )
And, lastly, I'm gonna tag the in the Proto-Indo-European roots behind both Latin ferre and Greek φέρω, which I don't know how to spell or pronounce but it's responsible for a ridiculously high percentage of the English language. Transfer and ferry, of course, but both the Latin and the Greek are irregular, which means that there's forms that sound nothing like -fer that also come from those words. Also, the English word bear *also* derives from the same root. I feel like we need to honor that word the same way I would honor my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother if she were alive.
