{"id":212,"date":"2011-01-05T16:03:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=212"},"modified":"2011-01-05T16:04:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:04:43","slug":"choose-your-favourite-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Choose Your Favourite Favourite"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might be aware that I always like to have a favourite word<\/strong>. I’ve been putting these on Twitter<\/a> <\/strong>(and the various other places where the feed from that appears) since – gulp – April 2009<\/strong>, and recently a couple of people have asked to see a full list of all my favourite words so far<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The list appears below. But since the list by itself seemed like it might make, ahem, somewhat dry reading<\/em>, I figured that it might be nice to have its appearance coincide with some kind of giveaway<\/strong>. So here goes: vote for your ‘favourite favourite’<\/strong> and you might WIN A PRIZE<\/strong> – namely a signed UK first edition of Tim, Defender of the Earth<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n

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This will be the true first edition<\/strong>, as published in trade (ie ‘large’) paperback in January 2008 by Random House Children’s Books UK. The book – if you win – will be signed and dedicated<\/strong> to you or whoever you wish. I will post the book to you free of charge, wherever you are. All you have to do is the following:<\/p>\n

–Click here to go to the Crawlers Guestbook<\/strong>. <\/a><\/p>\n

–Click ‘Sign Guestbook’<\/strong><\/p>\n

-Tell me your Favourite Favourite.<\/strong><\/p>\n

–Tell me why you think it’s the best word on the list.<\/strong><\/p>\n

–Tell me how to contact you in case you win<\/strong>. An email address is best, but Facebook will do. NB: I edit every entry on my Guestbooks before it appears, so (barring something going wrong that’s beyond my control) any personal contact details you give me will not<\/span> be publicly visible on that page: they will only be seen by me.<\/strong> But if you don’t leave me some way to get back to you if you’re the winner, I won’t be able to send you your prize.<\/p>\n

–THAT’S IT!<\/strong><\/p>\n

You have until Monday January 31st, 2011.<\/strong> The winner will be whoever I think comes up with the best answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK, enough preamble. Here below – from oldest to most recent – is what you’ve got to choose from. So: Ladies and Gentlemen! By (some!) Popular Demand! I present…<\/p>\n

All My Favourite Words Since April 23rd 2009<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

discombobulated, grackle, mucilage, cedilla, gizzard, vim, ruminant, cud, spry, squalid, guppy, blight, irascible, rutabaga, cloister, gristle, gawp, truckle, curmudgeon, schism, gubbins, smolt, shirty, ignition, quango, squab, macaroon, unguent, zugzwang, savage, seepage, pungent, moot, corpuscle, crepuscular, spleen, murk, plasma, lurid, salamander, pigment, glycerine, coagulant, grimace, baleful, macaque, gnaw, knurl, snood, glottal, inscrutable, clandestine, cormorant, lugubrious, scree, narthex, crimp, manacle, sphagnum, scrupulous, irk, spikenard, hawser, ellipsis, disgruntlement, lipid, mandible, shrike, fluke, insinuating, pernicious, usurper, prehensile, gelid, swarf, skulk, calamity, diminish, onslaught, oaf, tantamount, beak, mollusc, conglomerate, hispid, compunction, sloop, colossal, ventricle, mulch, baffle, spiracle, stint, nonplussed, fathom, aghast, thrive, pelt, plunge, wrack, goad, undulate, potash, snivelling, expunge, miasma, bulwark, cumbersome, tallow, smirch, gantry, buffoon, glut, torpid, asunder, mottled, palp, snit, tungsten, squeamish, tabernacle, throng, tumult, conclusive, demolish, harangue, ignominy, bamboozle, tokamak, millipede, winch, menace, lobster, scythe, mammoth, tendril, feast, marauder, morbid, slice, unutterable, cantankerous, buckle, abominable, sconce, hankering, churlish, battlement, parallax, absorb, inept, repulsive, grotesque, dreadnought, quash, yam, wretched, precipices, pulsating, bungle, furtive, ominous, soluble, dissolute, gallivanting, thole, spurious, doff, husk, hibernation, snooze, malingering, jostle, ormolu, succinct, scathed, flagrant, squamous, recalcitrant, ptarmigan, nebulous, huckster, reprehensible, stilted, griddle, plangent, quartile, broach, yolk, engrossed, propulsion, spinnaker, discrepancy, sepulchral, shoals, plenipotentiary, pulverised, clotted, agglutinated, blemish, crucible, phlegm, writhe, spindle, beware, drench, snout, cnidoblast, slathered, tangible, trifling, kibosh, jagged, nargile, turpitude, gargle, sedition, carnage, woe, maelstrom, crust, licentiousness, quaff, whelk, embezzlement, spume, incandescent, sluggishly, abolish, concussed, barnstormer, mesmerism, loathsome, misanthrope, sunk, diplomacy, hustings, tacit, hurtling, volatile, snaffle, spine, glyptodon, affront, siphon, blatant, helix, mouldering, unconscionable, malevolent, relish, ganglia, beacon, geode, gullet, dismissal, bismuth, sluice, curdled, glare, vernacular, smock, simmering, perihelion, subduction, gangplank, wince, fripperies, bluster, hence, overweening, rivet, meteor, cataplasm, marmoreal, sequestered, poltroon, scowl, recursive, nodule, trample, throaty, gargantuan, infested, upheaval, skirmish, rhinoceros, truncated, sump, sumptuous, vitriol, miscreant, turmoil, contagion, phospholipid, sidling, somnolent, marrow, cudgel, succumb, nozzle, smattering, obliterated, straggle, acrid, baulk, congeal, buffer, nucleus, lackadaisical, illicit, roost, inveigle, rife, blurt, corroborated, blear, salacious, exultant, grovel, insidious, agog, fecklessness, yawl, flummox, inimical, spool, neglect, bladderwrack, kelp, haphazard, occiput, plunder, brouhaha, wassail <\/strong>and shirk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I suppose I shouldn’t be allowed to choose more favourite words until we have a winner. So, have at it! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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