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Words

March 14th Prompt: Make a list of your favourite words to say. Describe why they are your favourites and include a pronunciation guide. Brownie points if you can use these words in a sentence.

         Favourite words? All words are wonderful and expressive. They each flow and support each other. But...

         I like words that are fun to pronounce and sometimes they are not English. Pantoufles! ( pan-too-fle) Every morning, I stretch before I cram my feet into my pantoufles and shuffle into the kitchen.

         Parapluie ( paira- plooey) When it rains, I open my yellow parapluie and shelter under it.

         Scarpered ( skar-purred) The thief scarpered with my wallet.

         Mardy (mar-dee) After a night of tossing and turning, Danielle is mardy. Being told no, two-year old Alexandra stomps to the couch and sucks her thumb because she is mardy.

         Knackered (nak-urred) Driving a thousand miles a week, Paul returns home knackered.

         Patch (pa-t-ch) A versatile word. There are quilt, bald, pocket, eye and garden patches. The gleaming patch on the man's head glistened as he bent to dig in his vegetable patch.

         Coronamude(with the German umlaut over the u)(kor-own-a-mood-a) Most everyone's feelings about Corona-19 may be summed up as coronamude.

         Doddle(daw-dul) No one may claim that this worldwide virus is a doddle.