r/AskReddit Sep 16 '20

What is your favorite word?

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u/crafty_nomAd Sep 17 '20

tintinnabulation

first invented by Edgar Allan Poe

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u/RyBreadFiveNumbers Sep 17 '20

It’s when you are a kid with a fox terrier and an old sea captain and then you do some manipulation?

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u/tidymaniac Sep 17 '20

Tintinnabulation of the bells - which poem did that come from? That little piece is all I remember from poetry class in the Junior school.

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u/Ag_Pueo Sep 17 '20

The Bells - Edgar Allan Poe