POLL: TOP 100 ENGLISH LANGUAGE WORDS CHOSEN BY ILE

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we should do an ilx poll top 100 words, like gear/stevem's top 100 stylee

-- ken c (pykachu10...), November 25th, 2004. (ken c) (later)

As some of you know, both ILM and ILC have recently had polls, voting for the best records of the nineties and the naughties, and the best comics of all time. Now's the time for ILE's own poll, and, by Ken's suggestion, I've chosen the one thing that surely interests us all: words. The poll will proceed as follows: every ILXor gets to nominate the maximum amount of four English-language words (you can nominate less if you want to) on this thread. The words should be ones you like, on any basis whatever - it could be the meaning of the word, how it sounds, how it looks like, or some other reason. If someone has already nominated your favourite word, choose another one. The nominations will close next Thursday, that is, the 2nd of December. After that I will post the full list of nominees, and instructions on how to vote for them.

Let the nominations begin!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Trousers

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Jumanji a word? If not, I guess I'll nominate bumblebee to start with. I'll think of others later. So...

2. Bumblebee

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd say you can nominate any word you feel is a real one. If people think it isn't, they wont vote for it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but wouldn't that mean 'teh' or 'pwned' would win?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll expect you to be honest and not vote for words you clearly know aren't real.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

3. Tubular

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

By now I should point out that we can and should have more than 100 nominations, so even if you want to order the nominations numerically (you don't necessarily have to), they should continue beyond 100.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

4. Underpants

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

5. Verisimilitude
5. Neophyte

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

6. nincompoop
6. bastardisation
6. zither

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Good, good keep 'em rolling! Also, since English isn't my native tongue, would you please be kind enough to correct misspellings if you notice some.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, when the voting starts, I hope at least some of you can write comments on your favourite words.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

9. Shag. It means so much to me and my true love.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

10 Zoetrope
11 oblique
12 solifluction

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

13. tittybiscuit

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

bollocks

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

15. Spermatozoon.
16. Dastardly.
17. Lupine.
18. Triskadekaphobia.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

19. genuflect

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Have we had pussy yet?

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

21. funkadelic

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Have we had pussy yet?

No, you want to nominate it?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

21. hullabaloo
22. tarradiddle
23. troglodyte

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

24. palimpsest
25. fugue
26. trump

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

perfidy
asymptote
copasetic

hi archel i'm back

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

27. Flaps

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

31. Miscreant
32. Rennaissance

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Begs2Differ, I said four words maximum, please no cheating! I'll turn a blind eye to it for now and accept all your nominations, but don't anyone try this again!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Matt!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

27. Paladin
28. Clerihew
29. Meal
30. Funk

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

that was not a nomination

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

so does mark still want pussy now he has the flaps?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

renaissance

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

poppycock

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Renaissance already nominated.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

injuns

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Renaissance makes a comeback!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

RJG - I nominated renaissance already, though I spelled it wrong: I don't know if you're correcting my spelling or nominating not realising I had nomonated it. Or something.]

(x-post)

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

33. parallax
34. manatee
35. astringent
36. cake

Only 4 is no good at all. Within minutes I'll regret each of these.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Is wangdangdoodle one word or three?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

* Breakfast
* Holiday
* Fluent
* Sissy

― Hanna (Hanna), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll stick my head over the fence and nominate:

Plinth

wonderful word, such beautiful tongue action.
Go on, say it out loud and you'll see what I mean!

Cal
PS - Hello. Miss yous

― Calumn, Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Within minutes I'll regret each of these.

I'm saving one of my nominations in case I become inspired in the future. That way I'll have one I might not regret...

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ok! since you're here cal

37. dobber

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

41. With. It has resonance and clarity. Plus you are never alone, with.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ubiquitous
obsequious

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Only 4 is no good at all. Within minutes I'll regret each of these.

It's necessary to limit the amount of nominations so the list you choose your votes from won't be impractically long. Think hard before you nominate!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Cleave.

It has two meanings, which are the opposite of each other.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I was correcting, yeah.

I thought we were supposed to.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 November 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 75 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I've began to think, maybe a top 100 is a bit too ambitious. We could settle for a top 50 only, it depends on how many nominations I get and how many words will actually receive more than one vote.

Anyway, all of you who've yet to come up with nominations, please do so, it isn't hard. If someone suspects this is all a joke, it isn't, I'm really gonna arrange the vote. The deadline for the nominations is Thursday this week.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 November 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

how many words have we had so far?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 29 November 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

aplomb

More to come.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 29 November 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The current word count is 150, which looks good enough, since there's still four more nomination days left.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, replace spigot with blast.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

xenomorph
discombobulated
residue
arouse

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

minge
fuckdog
nibble
nighttime

― d.arraghmac, Monday, 29 November 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Any more, y'all?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

'mordor' spoken by vincent price.

― d.arraghmac, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

have you nominated yet, tuomas?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Take out 'quack' and replace with 'quandary', thanks.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I nominate 'tossycock'

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

flop

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had all mine, but I'd like "pus" and "fob" as well.

And the names of Steve Martin and his love interest in "The Man with 2 Brains" - a vague approximation might be Hruhfruhrr and Uh-uhmelmahay?

― Jesus Christ, Paraplegic (Mark C), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Hfuhruhurr and Uumellmahaye according to IMDB.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Tumescence

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

have you nominated yet, tuomas?

I thought that as the facilitator of the poll I would be disqualified to nominate or vote... Did Gear or Stevem vote in their ILM polls?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, maybe I'll try to come with up some nominations before Thursday.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Snǿw
Mööse
Såntå Clåǔs

― Jesus Christ, Paraplegic (Mark C), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought santa was from antartica rather than finland

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Tintinnabulation

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

chump
lummox
portal
crumble

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

SHAZAM!
SHABOOM!
KAPOW!
HURRAH!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG I forgot YEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAW!

Will someone nomiate that??

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm also disappointed that nobody has nominated mw-hahaha-hahaha!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yee-haw
beer
crypt (can this include the words "apocryphal" and "cryptic"?)
shit

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like to change 'portal' to 'haver'. Not that anyone is going to vote for either.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I changed it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

it's all about 'bamboozle'

― twat, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

dangle
fritter
pensive
fornicate

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I am worrying about a shazam/shaboom vote split.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

plethora
dilettante
schmuck
zoom

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

insouciance

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

antimacassar
delve
indubitably
maelstrom

― Richard Jones (scarne), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, remember that this is the last day to nominate! I won't be collecting the nominations until tomorrow morning, so all you Americans will have the chance to vote until midnight as well. I'll put up the full list of nominations and voting instructions tomorrow.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

pony (in case a word was nominated twice)

― youn, Thursday, 30 December 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, dear, I completely forgot this, since ILX went down a day or two after my last post. I'll post a voting thread as soon as I have the time.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

holster

― youn, Saturday, 8 January 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

holy crap people,
brouhaha

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Antimacassar, what a lovely word. I'm sure my gran had one.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

-soft
-like
-brine
-wax

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

we are in terrible suspense! come back tuomas!

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 13 February 2005 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

hoi-polloi should have been on there.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 13 February 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I could run this poll if tuomas doesn't want to?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, I thought ILX had grown weary of all the polls, but sure I can still arrange this. Just hold on a moment...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 13 February 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Were the results ever posted?

― The Brainwasher, Saturday, 19 May 2007 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

tricotilamania

― negotiable, Saturday, 19 May 2007 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, I thought ILX had grown weary of all the polls, but sure I can still arrange this. Just hold on a moment...

-- Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, February 13, 2005 3:59 PM (2 years ago)

heh.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 19 May 2007 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Recidivist

― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 14:13 (five years ago)

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