Lovely is as Lovely Says

Elder Blain just asked me to kick him in the shins if I catch him saying, "Lovely." I have gotten rather attached to the lovely word and use it as often as possible. It sounds nice rolling off the tongue with an English accent. He thinks it isn't a man's word, but the men use it as much as women. A single conversations may go like this, "Oh, he is a lovely man, lovely family, yes, lovely he is, and you have a lovely time when you visit him and his lovely neighbors as well." It makes me want to skip out across the hills and dales, flinging my arms outstretched wide (as in Sound of Music), singing "L-uh-v-e-l-y, loovely, lervely, lufly. 'ovely!". That is the various ways it is pronounced here, depending on which area you're from.