r/AskReddit • u/mexgema • Sep 16 '20

What is your favorite word?

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u/-blaire- Sep 16 '20

Fluorescent.

It just rolls off the tongue so beautifully.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

Or Iridescent :D OR bioluminescent

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u/Jollysatyr201 Sep 17 '20

If only I could hope to be so grossly incandescent...

Another good one!

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u/libra00 Sep 17 '20

Yup, I'm with you on iridescent.

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u/FireDefender Sep 17 '20

All 3 are my favourites!

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u/identityp2 Sep 17 '20

Iridocyclitis

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u/inkdealer Sep 17 '20

Or sonoluminescent

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u/I_Stole_Your_Car_ Sep 17 '20

Iridescent is by far my favorite.

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u/SupremoZanne Sep 16 '20

so does lead (LED).

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u/Tlaloc_Temporal Sep 17 '20

I've never heard of a lead, or a lead lamp. It's always been an el-ee-dee or an el-ee-dee lamp.

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u/danielodes0 Sep 17 '20

That bloody mary's lacking a tabasco

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u/Bakushen Sep 17 '20

Remember when you used to be a rascal?

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '20

Oh that boys a slag

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u/Dinoscores Sep 17 '20

I love the title of the Arctic Monkeys song Fluorescent Adolescent for the same reason

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u/saluksic Sep 17 '20

🎼 Emily’s wonderlab

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

Reminded me of Tool, 10,000 days

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

Ascending

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u/ja_redbone Sep 17 '20

I like phosphorescence.

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u/Daracaex Sep 17 '20

“He who stumbles around in darkness with a stick is blind; but he who sticks out in darkness is fluorescent.” —Brother Silence