Do you ever come across words that you feel missed their calling?

[Baitball Blogger]

Lofting. Much like wafting, lofting should have a gentle connotation. Like lofting: a quiet repose. Used in a sentence: His winter windbreaker lofted on a sofa chair for most of the summer.

Second meaning: It's something that might not belong, but has found its place because we've stopped seeing it, or there is no immediacy in removing it. Like in, her soon to be ex-boyfriend lofted on her sofa.

[agingdem]

1. I detect a fellow English major

I remember the first two words I fell in love with...facade/sychophant...still two of my favorites....and now I'm into homonyms.. English majors are weird...yes we are...

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Oddly, I really blew it and didn't pay attention in English class as much as I should have.

But, it's never too late. I find most of my misunderstandings, fascinating. Always something to learn.

[agingdem]

3. I get it when people say I'm at a loss for words..

I think it's because whatever words they're searching for haven't been "invented" yet...and sometimes there are no words to make a horrible situation better...

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I am going to keep the word, lofting in my lexicon.

I have some plans for it in my writing.

[TuxedoKat]

5. Yes

I read somewhere once that someone suggested calling the color between silver and gold “findrinny”, and lamented the fact that it never caught on for that. It has a meaning of a white bronze metal but it’s not used for that color you see sometimes at the holidays that looks silvery-gold. I use it for that color anyway.

Some good words too aren’t used often enough so ones I particularly like I use at will for fun. Two of those are flummoxed and guffaw. Especially guffaw!!! My kids even use guffaw I’ve said it around them so much. 😂

[Baitball Blogger]

6. I may not use flummoxed and guffaw in spoken word,

but they live in my brain. LOL!

Is findrinny platinum gold? I could have used findrinny.

[Ron Obvious]

7. Enervating

Enervating should mean the opposite of what it does mean, which is what a lot of people (I daresay the majority) already think it does mean.

[Ptah]

8. Lofting is a drafting technique

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lofting

[CTyankee]

9. "Aloft" is so beautiful. It means more than flying, often means carried away with love or pleasure.