Jul 17, 2012
Determining the best word in the English language tournament-style
A few days ago, Ted McCagg of Questionable Skills began the Brobdingnagian and — of course — completely objective task of deciding the greatest word in our fine language. He’s doing it by letter and has made it through D…
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I look forward to seeing how things play out through the rest of the alphabet and then watching the finals when I imagine we’ll see all the #1′s by letter pitted against each other. It’s going to be brutal.
What words are you rooting for?
Update: He posted E between the time I wrote this and posted it.
(via This Isn’t Happiness)
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Seriously? How did “apt” make it so far?
Discombobulate and cantankerous both should have at least made their finals. The judges are obviously smoking crack.
Dipthong is pretty accurate though
Canoodle? C’mon! The cantankerous vs. cuckold matchup should have been the finals.
Agree w/ kdude63. “d” clearly is a tough bracket.
How did apophenia not make the A Bracket and bamboozled not make the B Bracket? Also diaphanous for the D Bracket.
Go diphthong!
What about dildos?
I’m smirking to myself over the super-mega-authorative tone everyone’s adopting, whilst obviously the whole thing’s ridiculously subjective. :-D
And I’m smirking because you don’t recognize the smirk in everyone else’s comments. P.S. “cacophony” should be the winner in the C category and it’s *sniffle* not even LISTED.
Jen, I was out at a birthday celebration in a restaurant/bar over the weekend and the noise level was deafening. I mentioned to my friends that evening how I thought cacophony was the best word in the english language. Score for you!
Well, it always does me proud to make random strangers on the internet smirk! X-D
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Hey- Thanks for the post (and comments)!
Anyone with favorite words for upcoming brackets, let me know.
Ted
Questionable Skills
Critters wasn’t even in the tourney? Shenanigans!
How did single syllable “crotch” beat “cunnilingus”? Is it because without it cunnilingus wouldn’t exist? Is this a pattern that may possibly lead to the ultimate winner…
I love this! My top word: syzygy
Apropos is definitely a better word than Apt, I smell a fix :-P
God, the pressure! I’m glad I didn’t have to decide betwixt bacchanal and bodacious!
Clearly, the b champion should be “braggadocio”, and naturally I thought it up myself.