Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 00:46     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Hor’s D’oevres

Nomenclature

Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 00:34     Subject: Re:What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Notwithstanding
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 22:47     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
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
Post 01/17/2024 22:40     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Ballet (with the accent on the FIRST syllable)
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 22:40     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
+1 to dialectic
Benzodiazepine
inflection point
finance (with the accent on the second syLLAble)
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 19:52     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Segue
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 19:51     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?


Victorian sponge

Bakers often make Victorian sponge cakes on The Great British Baking Show and they just sound so -- posh.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 19:48     Subject: Re:What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
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
Post 01/17/2024 19:47     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Dialectic
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 19:44     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Anonymous wrote:Quotidian

This is the first good one. I'd be impressed
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 19:43     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
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
Post 01/17/2024 19:41     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Anonymous wrote:The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain


but

In Hartford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 19:35     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
festoon

alacrity
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 16:36     Subject: Re:What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
decanter
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2024 16:33     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Déclassé


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


I was going to say the same thing!