A Few of My Favorite Things

My new favorite word is haberdashery.

Ran aross it in a book I am reading and instantly felt this word met all the requirements of a favorite word:
a. it’s fun to say;
b. it looks nice on the page with its four stalks of H and B and the decending Y;
c. it’s uncommon, therefore vaguely mysterious at first glance;
d. it has five (!) syllables;
e. it has enough hard consonant sounds to double as a curse word, though one may sound unnecessarily pompous, and therefore silly, while using it in that way — but this is part of the charm.

Well, I could go on, but you get the picture. Though I doubt I’m really the type to go around using regular words as curse words, much less something as outdated as the word haberdashery. But I like the idea of doing so — like it’s a quality one would give a character in a book one was writing (though I am not writing a book). But even so I think it’d be a character I’d have little patience with as he would be a pompous ass.

I’d like to use the word haberdashery in a title for something, or in some something’s name, but have yet to think of a good excuse for doing so. Or even a good excuse for using the word just once in a normal, acceptable context in daily living.

That’s the problem with developing a word crush. Half the time it’s embarassing and impractical and never reaches any type of usage fruition.