Ask Lemmy

Boob just because it shows how boobs look from the three main perspectives: top, straight on, and profile.

When in all lowercase letters the word

bed

Looks like a bed.

syzygy

Always dug the word "queue" you only pronounce the first letter and the rest of them are just waiting in line all tidy.

I think bookkeeping is a nice, woody word, both visually and spoken

Pretty much any Arabic calligraphy.

I went to a museum in Morocco that was specifically showing Arabic calligraphy in the shape of trees or people or other common objects and was absolutely blown away.

Indelibly printed on my mind.

I saw saw Arabic calligraphy and I was like oh s*** they got the written word correct.

"Minimum" is quite nice, particularly in calligraphy where it's just a bunch of vertical lines

German always looks great.

My favourite?

Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

dub

It looks like headphones. Nicely symmetrical.

In Romanian, the word "lalelele" is perfectly correct.

Ever since I saw it written down I've been trying to decide if I love it or hate it.

"Slyly" actually kind of bothers me a little due to how it looks.

English:

• Obelisk
• Aptitude
• Hamfisted
• Obstreperous
• Peace

Spanish:

• Zapata
• Dos veces

French:

• Pamplemousse

I love the word acquiesce. It just looks classy and elegant (even though the word doesn't mean anything like it)

hijinks

Three tittles in a row.

One of my kids is named Ivy and she was the first to learn how to write it because it's one stick, two sticks, three sticks. Her under 2 year old sister was at the library once and pointed to a book and said "Ivy" and yep, that was on the spine of the book. So I love that word because it made two of my kids understand written language.

I don't think there's any words that "look handsome" though what I was a kid, the first time I read the word "gobbledygook" I could not stop laughing for at least 5 minutes. Then I had to go look it up in a dictionary (because that was the style at the time).

The word bed looks like a bed.

Chinese and Japanese would have so many. My favorite is probably 緑 which means green. I also like the simplified Chinese horse: 马. Special shoutout to 凸 meaning convex, 凹 meaning concave, and 凸凹 meaning bumpy (not sure if this is true in Chinese). There's thousands to choose from so of course there are a lot of other handsome one-character words, but those are the first few I thought of.

Preposterous. Sounds hilarious, and looks/sounds very sophisticated in a good way.

syzygy

Bonus points for no aeiou.

Grawlix - the use of punctuation to convey swearing in comics or cartoons. @#!&

Malapropism - incorrectly using a word that sounds similar to the intended word. Like Mike Tyson famously saying that he'd "fade into Bolivian"

Malaphor - combining one or more metaphors incorrectly like "we'll burn that bridge then we come to it"

lloviznar - to drizzle in Spanish. Also feels nice to say.

The word

dumb

is almost perfectly symmetrical, at least d and b are, and i really like it. Depends on the typeface of course.

You can have a perfectly symmetrical set of letters by writing "dunb" but that's not a word

Strix is cool. I like saying it.

Any palindrome.

Ill

A place in California called Zzyzx.