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Holly Kreft's avatar

Occuponymous - when someone's name matches their occupation! My eye doctor - Dr. Dokter; my former dentist, Dr. Strait; my geology professor, Dr. Rock. It feels serendipitous ;)

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Margaret Allbee's avatar

I didn't know that was a word!!! I love that English has a word for that!! I have a great example. My dad's shop teacher in high school: Samuel A. Wood. Both his name and his initials fit this definition!

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Larissa Milne's avatar

They sound like Dickens characters! Great word!

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Kathleen's avatar

Fun! There's a chiropractor in town named Dr. Zipper. On the flip side, a dentist advertises on the radio with the tag line -- "I'm Dr. Hurt. That's just my name, not my intention!"

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Holly Kreft's avatar

That's so great! I worked in City government and we had a resident run for Mayor with the last name Lies (pronounced "lease") and his campaign motto was "If you want the Truth, vote for Lies". :)

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Rachel Jones's avatar

Love this!

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Angela K. Marvin's avatar

My eye doctor when I was a kid was Dr. Sites.

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Dee's avatar

There used to be an OB-GYN here with the name Dr. Dildy. You can't make this stuff up!!

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Gretared's avatar

I had a massage therapist named Pettibone

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JZ's avatar

Kerfuffle!

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Michael Jensen's avatar

GOBSMACKED! I also like perambulation, persnickety, and "Honey, I was wrong and you were completely right."

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Kathleen's avatar

Persnickety is an awesome word.

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lizzie's avatar

I also love epistolary! Some of my other favorite words: mellifluous, halcyon, gossamer, ineffable, eventide, flaneur…there are just so many beautiful words, and I love when I’m reading and I come across a word I don’t know!

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Sarah Williams's avatar

These are all so beautiful

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Margaret Allbee's avatar

Ooh good list!! I concur.

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Elizabeth's avatar

I also love serendipity! Also surreptitious. And Morgenmuffle (someone who is grumpy in the morning).

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Sarah Williams's avatar

Morganmuffle! Fun!

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Caroline S's avatar

Penultimate was a favorite of my Dad’s and I always think of him when I use it.

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Jessica's avatar

Oh my gosh, I love penultimate! I had a boss who used it frequently… and ALWAYS incorrectly. (As in, he meant “the best” and it meant “second to last.”) It drove me nuts. And my now-partner and I developed an inside joke about it in our early courtship that is still going today. (Yes, we fell in love over obsessive precision with word meanings.)

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Heather's avatar

I love penultimate, and the adjacent words antepenultimate and preantepenultimate.

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Lauren's avatar

Flibbertigibbet! It sounds (to me anyway) like what it describes. It was the first word that came to my mind!

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Larissa Milne's avatar

OOH…this is a fun one! I will probably want to amend my comment periodically as words start tumbling out of my brain.

But for now I’ll start with effervescent, resplendent… and schlep.

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Johnna Davis's avatar

Discombobulated. :-)

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Ann Longtain's avatar

I just love the word “sunlit”. It evokes coziness and beauty.

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Sarah Williams's avatar

I love aliferous which means to have wings. I also think niveous, resembling snow, is lovely.

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Lauren's avatar

Oh! And kerfuffle. Another fun one 😀

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Jessica's avatar

Crepuscular. It describes animals that are active at dusk and dawn — neither diurnal nor nocturnal.

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Margaret Allbee's avatar

I, too, love that word.

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Marcia Poore's avatar

Avuncular, palimpsest, hurkle-durkle, tchotchke, lagnaiappe, saudade, and tsundoku. A few of these words are borrowed from other languages.

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Rachel Jones's avatar

I love foreign phrases and words dropped into a conversation or written work of English. Hoi polloi, accoutrement, sangfroid, bon mot, hubris, verboten, flagrante delicto, etc. It’s so fun and witty!

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Carrie's avatar

My favorites are not in English!

Spanish: mañana

French: pantoufle

I just like the way they sound.

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