learning new words

I heard that somewhere, maybe in a musical? Sound of Music methinks...

It is pronounced just like it looks. How on earth was flibbergibbets related to railroads? Guess I could look it up, huh? I enjoy learning new words. I have subscribed to one of the on-line dictionaries and receive their 'word of the day'. A lot of them are really new to me.

New word might come in handy so it's good to catch new words whenever possible. I remember learning a new word at the drilling class when I was in college: in Romanian the word was "geamblac" (a part like a kind of a hook to hold the drilling installation), and the teacher told us about how this word came to be. It comes from the part's inventor: the English man James Black...

Yes, I like to learn new words! Never heard of this word.. but I would pronounce it the way it's spelled... What's it mean?

I assume that word is what you say when you can't think of the name of something: whatsit.....thingamabob....whatchacallit. But then again, if you found it in a railway book, maybe not.

I do love to new words as in this way i can gain some knowledge. The first word i heard in rail station which is a road of train i think and 2nd one could be some scientific name of some plants i think. Love to hear from you!

I am learning and picking up new words everyday. Especially so when English is so foreign to me as an Asian. I've not come across 'Flibbertigbbets' before but this is a time to learn new words especially from the native speakers.

Oh my heavens, I've not thought of this word since I was a kid and my gran would tell me to slow down, take a deep breath and stop being such a flibbertigibbet! LOL As for telling you how to say it........phonetically! lol

I remember my Grandma saying that one! Flib-er-tee-jib-ets, with emphasis on the first syllable! It means a flighty person, a scatterbrain. One thing I enjoy about watching Bill O'Reilly on Fox is the word he showcases at the very end of the show. He doesn't give you the meaning but challenges you to look it up and learn how to use it. I can't remember any off hand because I haven't taped his show recently but it's a cool feature.

I love learning new words and once upon a time I really used to put myself out in trying to broaden my vocabulary. I would be reading a book and I would have a dictionary alongside but this proved to be very inconvenient! I would be looking up every single word I did not understand and it would take me forever to get through the book that I was reading solely for pleasure! So, what I do now is, I still have an interest in learning new words but I think that this comes naturally through regular reading. I love reading and I read a lot of books on a regular basis and it's purely for pleasure. What I find is the more you read the better your word usage and vocabulary becomes. You begin to communicate and write in the author's style, picking their brain so to speak! That is a strange word by the way 'Flibbertigibbets'! I won't bother trying to say it as it's a real tongue twister! I'm not even sure what it means! I don't think I will go to the trouble of looking it up in a dictionary either as I'm about to cook some breakfast! Andrew

Yes, I like to look up the words that I don't know. I have a electronic dictionary that is very convenient. I can just simply put in the words, it tells me what it means, how to use, the tenses, example and everything. Besides that it has a lot more functions. When I look up the words, I usually can remember what it means instead of people telling me what the words mean.

Yes, I am very fond of learning new words and always try to use wherever and whenever it is possible to use.