r/words

Hi everyone, I'm trying to name my small business and am currently just beginning brainstorming. Online thesauruses have been absolutely no help because I'm not really looking for direct synonyms, so I was hoping y'all might help me by suggesting some related words.

I'm looking for words related to: sentimental, heirloom, legacy, remembrance, memory

For context: my business is a custom upcycling service that takes old sentimental clothes and textiles and turns them into something that can be kept or passed down as an heirloom for much longer (eg memory bears, t shirt quilts, turning wedding dresses into day wear or decor etc) so I'm trying to tap into the idea of objects holding memories and giving those memories more longevity by giving the objects a second life. I am, however, bad at naming things and currently very stuck.

People: "I literally died laughing"

Also people: still alive

I need a word for my enjoyment of and fascination with hotel lobbies!

1. Worcestershire
2. Rural
3. Squirrel
4. Anemone
5. Otorhinolaryngologist
6. Quinoa
7. Isthmus
8. Sixth
9. Colonels
10. Particularly

How many did you get first try?

Do you consider it a formal word? Do you ever use it in your life?

So im trying to make a song and im looking for a word where someone gives way too much affection and care to a depressed lover and is getting tired of it and wants to leave that depressed someone.

So I was listening to a song on Spotify, I was looking at the lyrics first because I thought they were good. Just then i noticed some words I HAVE NEVER heard of. So I'm wondering what they mean ? Can someone tell me ?

The words were:

“ ungoliant, shelob, aragog, arukenimon & circadian ”

I don't know if they're even in english, although I did find them in an english song ... So yeah, if they're not english at all, my bad

Pneumonultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

My grandpa and his family are from Sweden but he grew up in the US and doesn’t speak Swedish. However, there are some Swedish words and phrases he uses that he remembers his parents saying. For example, pepparkaka (ginger snaps) was an easy one for me to find online, though he definitely doesn’t pronounce it right. I’m wanting to ask about a word and a phrase he would always use, because I can’t find them and I’d like to know what is accurate Swedish.

The word he uses for bathroom, he says like “Boo-sa.” From what I know about Swedish, I think that first vowel could be o, u, y, or ö.

The phrase he uses whenever he arrives back home (he’d always tell me it means “we’re home”) is something like “himmen harmen”. That’s spelling it the way it sounds coming from my grandpa’s mouth, but I have no clue what it may have sounded like coming from my fully-Swedish great-grandparents and so I definitely don’t know how I should spell it.

If anyone knows what these words are in Swedish, I would love to know.

Words that are really cool but for some reason not used much, like tranquility.

Mine is "Nop" or "Nah" mostly

How did words come to be?How was the definition of words come to be? How did we learn to know about words. How do we attach words to things?

It's a race to think of and gather as many words as you can claim! This starts off easy, but as time goes on, this will get harder and harder.

My grandpa passed a few years ago, and I’ve been struggling for years to figure out one specific thing he said.
For context, he was Italian, and kid-me just wrote off every phrase I didn’t understand as some Italian-American slang, like his “muppy” (mupine, or dishrag he used as a handkerchief).

But one thing he did, I, for the life of me, cannot figure out. Not by searching, not chat-gpt-ing, not asking literally my entire family and being met with a shrug:

When I was being bad, or even a little mischievous, he would shake his fist in my face and give me a playful “oo vee!” Or maybe “uvi!”

Just to get it out of the way, no, it’s not “oy vey.” No, it’s not “uffa.” It’s oo, like “too”, and vee, like “tea.” “Ew V” is the most succinct phonetically.

It could be Italian. It could be a reference to some film. I’m not sure, but you all are smarter than me at this.

This is one of my most distinct memories of my grandpa, and I really miss him a lot, so any help would be so appreciated.