It’s been a while, but I got this one from Red:

Words that always look misspelled to me:

Sergeant, Weird, cemetery

Words I enjoy saying:

buncombe, barrage, scabrous, hamster, bollocks, vacuous, lambaste, donnybrook.

Words I enjoy hearing:

“You were right all along”, “On the house!”,

Abbreviations I dislike:

“nbr” for “number”, “etc”.

Proper nouns I enjoy:

Phuket, Bannockburn, Ouistreham, Zap, Amelie,

Words I associate with happiness:

guitar, vacation, talk show (I know, a phrase. So sue me).
Words I always misspell:

Weird, Vacuum (whaddya mean there’s only one “c”?).

Words I enjoy spelling correctly, every time:

Sphygmomanometer.

Words that, though I love their meaning, I’m too embarrassed to say out loud:

Can’t think of any.

Words I can never remember the meaning of no matter how many times I look them up:

Syllogism, Teleology.

Words that sound like what they mean:

goulash, leprosy, abortion, phlegm, vellum, invincible, velvet.

Words that sound like something other than what they mean:

Enervating. Gets me every time.

What are some of your favorite words?

ethereal, ether, fart, guffaw, chard, talus, scree, chum, warm.

Your least favorite?

Nubbin, Tomkat, Bebop (and Bebopareebop), boogie.