What's your favorite word? Wait, doesn't everyone have a favorite word? I have several, but then language is a hobby, a vocation, maybe even a little bit of an obsession with me.

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I have a soft spot for Byzantine (a perfect word for the kind of crazy complexity that I find maddening in, among other things, U.S. tax policy) and other words, but the word at the top of my list of favorites is . . .

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walkie-talkie.