Okay, this is the poll where we choose the greatest of all time English language words. The nominations have been made, so it's time to vote. Here's how the voting works: you choose up to 30 words from the nominations list, put them in order, and they will score points according to the following logic:
1. 75 points
2. 60 points
3. 50 points
4. 45 points
5. 40 points
6. 35 points
7. 30 points
8. 25 points
9. 23 points
10. 21 points
11. 19 points
12. 18 points
13. 17 points
14. 16 points
15. 15 points
16. 14 points
17. 13 points
19. 12 points
20. 11 points
21. 10 points
22. 9 points
23. 8 points
24. 7 points
25. 6 points
26. 5 points
27. 4 points
28. 3 points
29. 2 points
30. 1 points
You can choose less than than 30 words if you want to, but that won't change the scoring, i.e. your number one will still receive 75 points, number two 60 points etc. Votes should be sent to this address: lixnixn@yahoo.co.uk.
I'd also like people to write blurbs or longer comments why they've chosen those particular words; if you're willing to write blurbs, mark every word you could comment with a star (*), and once I've counted the results I'll send you e-mail asking for the comments. Voting ends on Monday, February the 21st (you have only eight days to vote, I take it shouldn't take that long), that'll be the last day you can cast a vote.
So, without further ado, here are the nominees, in alphabetical order:
A
aardvark
analgesic
aneurism
antidisestablishmentarianism
antimacassar
anymore
aplomb
arouse
astringent
asymptote
augur
B
banana
bass
bastardisation
beer
bereft
bile
blaspheme
blast
bollocks
boner
breakfast
brine
brouhaha
bupkis
bumblebee
bummer
buttnaked
C
cake
calibrate
chump
cleave
clerihew
cobb-knobbler
cock
combust
concatenate
concomitant
copasetic
corporeal
corrosive
cozy
crikey
cruel
crumble
crypt
cunt
D
dangle
darling
dastardly
delve
differentiation
dilettante
dip
discombobulated
dune
dust
E
eureka
F
flaps
flop
fluent
fornicate
fritter
fuck
fuckdog
fugue
fulsome
funk
funkadelic
G
genuflect
ghosts
glamour
glandular
H
haven
haver
heresiarch
hob
holiday
holster
hullabaloo
hurrah
hyacinth
I
ilk
indubitably
injuns
insouciance
J
juxtaposition
K
kapow
keep
kennelmaid
L
lascivious
like
love
lugubrious
lummox
lupine
M
maelstrom
manatee
masquerade
meal
mellifluous
meretricious
minge
misanthrope
mischief
miscreant
Mordor
mosaic
mugwump
mutha
N
neophyte
nevertheless
nibble
nighttime
nincompoop
O
oblique
opal
ostensibly
outcrop
P
p dog
paladin
palimpsest
parallax
parallelogram
pathogen
pendulous
pensive
perfidy
phrenology
piffle
plethora
plinth
pony
poppycock
portmanteau
profligate
proletariat
pussy
Q
quandary
R
refrigerator
renaissance
residue
reverberate
rheostat
river
S
schmuck
schtuck
sestina
shaboom
shag
shandy
shazam
sherm
shit
sissy
skullduggery
slobbery
snush
soft
solifluction
spackle
spermatozoon
spigot
splenetic
squirrel
succulent
T
tarradiddle
temerarious
tintinnabulation
tits
tittybiscuit
tossycock
trepidatious
triskadekaphobia
troglodyte
trousers
trump
tubular
tumescence
twat
twilight
U
underpants
usurper
V
verisimilitude
villainy
W
wash
wax
wet
why
X
xenomorph
xylophonist
Y
yee-haw
yttrium
Z
zither
zoetrope
zoom
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 13 February 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)