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If you could add another word to the language, what would it be, and why?

I'll go with "withe". Not because I like it - in fact it's my bane, because when I'm typing fast, that's how I often accidentally type "with the". Still, if Merriam Webster could go ahead and legitimize it, it would save me a lot of editing.

Integrous. I've been looking for an adjectival form for "integrity" for some time. There are a few sites that say "integrous" is already a word, but most editorial sites say no. I also found one that said that English had the word "integrious" eons ago, but it's no longer considered part of the current lexicon.

guileless, forthright, honest, upstanding...

Withing

Any time a word ends in 'in' my fingers automatically add the g.

Also, withe looks very Shakespearean. I think it's a keeper.

Willn't! Ever since I saw the word in GG's book, I want to use it!

ROFL!!!! Would you believe my English teacher who between us wasn't that great of an English speaker actually thought the word was used?
But again, that teacher (God bless her soul, she was a sweet woman who died from brain tumor) also pronounced vegetable as Veggie-table. I can't count how many times I had to correct her. She even had me teach the class one day because she had lost her voice form a bad cold.

Vanglican. As in trendy vicar with a thing about veggie burgers

Christina wrote: "Also, withe looks very Shakespearean. I think it's a keeper."

It goes along with withing quite nicely.

Just one?
But I make up too many to choose!

I keep thinking assurety is a word. And then I have to decide on assure or surety.

I like fickity. In my head it means really effing persnickety.

J.L. wrote: "I like fickity. In my head it means really effing persnickety."

I know I'm not using your definition here, but the first thing that came to mind was Lemony Snickett's Series of Fickity Events.

Chris wrote: "J.L. wrote: "I like fickity. In my head it means really effing persnickety."

I know I'm not using your definition here, but the first thing that came to mind was Lemony Snickett's Series of Fickit..."

Or lemony Ficket? Overly proper distant cousin to Snickett...