It's hard to believe that our year of Word Love is over. We've had so many fantastic entries that it's been hard for us to choose our winners each month. A big thanks to everyone who has submitted their favourite word in 2014.
So here they are, folks: our final winners for the year.
Word love,
Rocksalt Copy Creatives
| Winner | Word | Meaning | Why they love it so |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paula Garsden, Winner | Tmesis | The separation of parts of a compound word by an intervening word or words, used mainly in informal speech for emphasis (e.g. can't find it any-blooming-where). | "It's fan-bloody-tastic." |
| David Owens, Runner Up | Meander | A winding curve or bend of a river or road. | ”A gentle sounding word with no sense of hurry.” |
| Haley Hawk, Honourable Mention | Scrofulous | Having a diseased run-down appearance. | ”I love saying it with a deep accented voice, it just sounds so dangerous and dirty. It's a word that you whisper to describe people you don't like, feeling all the more scandalous as they try to figure out what it means.” |
| Clive Weatherley, Honourable Mention | Sesquipedalian | Walk in a leisurely way. | ”Because if you ever used it in a sentence you would, very conveniently, be defined by the word itself!” |
| Angela Corpe, Honourable Mention | Earnest | Resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction. | ”Used as a description of someone, there are few occasions when it can be genuinely used, but when it can - I want to take said person home with me!” |
