Agents tended to have favourite words and often used the same combination for a number of messages.

The Dutch agents were perfectly normal in their ratio of favourite words to new ones.

He goes round saying wicked, it's his favourite word.

Anyway, 14ac is one of my favourite words, so that made up for a lot.

You nearly managed to get through a posting without the lubrication of your favourite word.

The favourite word of the architects who built them was "honest".

So, please, be inspired by this pick of the crop, then send me your favourite word.

His favourite word, the one that he heard again and again in these dreams, was spring.

Inchoate would be one of my least favourite words.

Trouble and tragedy were two of her especially favourite words.