Anonymous
Post 01/20/2024 22:02     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Nefarious (when I’m gossiping)
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2024 21:14     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Clandestine
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2024 19:58     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Forum
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2024 17:02     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Words I grew up hearing and now use myself…

Lagniappe
Ennui
Ablutions
Turophile
Remonstrate
Superannuated
Quash (which people rarely use, and instead use squash)
Supine (she used to call my elementary school principal Me. Supine, a play in his actual name Scupine)
Halcyon
She also like to use phrases from a variety of literary and historical sources (shuffle off this mortal coil; there is a time for many words, and there is a time for sleep; suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune…etc etc)

Now that my mom has Alzheimer’s it’s nice to remember these and realize the gift she gave me of encouraging literacy (we used to have the word of the day calendars etc and many a dinner conversation involves getting an encyclopedia to check something)….

She had an incredible

Anonymous
Post 01/20/2024 14:24     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
petulant
sans
daft
dolt
feather-brained
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2024 14:03     Subject: Re:What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
whisper property
Graff
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2024 13:58     Subject: Re:What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
I digress…
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2024 13:53     Subject: What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
Indeed
Duly noted
At University or Hospital
without “the”
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2024 12:50     Subject: Re:What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?
ineffable
besotted
sagacious