What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Déclassé

Anything French (since I say it with the proper accent).

I was going to say the same thing!

[Anonymous]

decanter

[Anonymous]

festoon

alacrity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain

but

In Hartford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain

but

In Hartford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen.

You mean Awtfud, Erfud and Ampshuh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quotidian

This is the first good one. I'd be impressed

[Anonymous]

Dialectic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rolls. As in, bring the Rolls to the front, we will be taking it to dinner.

And bringing the dinner rolls home for tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Victorian sponge

Bakers often make Victorian sponge cakes on The Great British Baking Show and they just sound so -- posh.

[Anonymous]

Segue

[Anonymous]

+1 to dialectic
Benzodiazepine
inflection point
finance (with the accent on the second syLLAble)

[Anonymous]

Ballet (with the accent on the FIRST syllable)

[Anonymous]

I am a word-lover married to a dyslexic, now with two dyslexic children. Just reading through this list is like a fun vacation back to the vibrant world I used to know! Thank you, all!

[Anonymous]

Notwithstanding

[Anonymous]

Hor’s D’oevres

Nomenclature