What are some words that look and sound funny to you?
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December 14th, 2012
This has probably been asked before, but I’ll start a new thread.
Shuttlecock and brouhaha have always sounded weird to me.
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Caboodle
Frodo Baggins
Hoopla
Crikey
Bra
Banana
platypus
supple
stoop
rufous
ladle
Defenestrate. Love that word. Also, the word pillow. It makes me think about pillows, and I like pillows. Soft!
Onomatopoeia.
makes me giggle every time I try to say it
@Patton I wonder what Chief Seattle thought about his name…
Congregational – too many hard sounds.
Cacophonous @jonsblond that is onomatopoeic..
This could just be me, but sometimes perfectly ordinary and well known words can suddenly look and sound peculiar. Even simple ones like ‘dear’.
Coprolite
Plimsoll
Raggletaggle
Chippendale
Effeminate
Flatulent
Girdle
Grunt
Snot
Anything Welsh
Vagina has always sounded inappropraite as the definition for what it is.
Sounds more like an illness or disease.
One of the most popular words to hate when being interviewed by James Lipton is moist.
I agree.
Scrumptious
dictionary
chair
stomach would be my number 1…
Glockenspiel
Boomslang (a type of snake)
Cock a Leekie (Soup)
Crotch is one of the grossest sounding words in the world.
Snood
Grommet
Wretch
Nodule
Scrotum
Woo
Harumph
Persnickity
Gargantuan
Obsequious
Quiver
Flay
Corporeal
Racacous
But I agree with @mrentropy it changes.
Whoopsi Daisies! :)
Really funny when someone says it. I’ve only come across one person who’s used it.
Krakatoa, sounds like someone just suffered an injury whilst kicking a blunt object such as a rock or maybe a tree stump.
CUNNINGLINGUS. Haw haw. :)
^I always thought it was similar to cunning or skilled linguist. Imagination fascination
Conundrum.
Quandary.
Testicle.
Ruckus.
@rosehips It is about being a cunning linguist. A master of many tongues. LOL
@Only138 Agreed. Appropriate.
Just like vagina is similar to angina which has become another symbol for love. The V is used to symbolize the pocket of feminity. The n is removed and put into the center of the penis for phallic object it is.
Or the heart symbol itself. The lower half a V the upper half boobs balls or bubble butts.
Certainly not from the shape of the physical heart.
I love words and symbols. So fun.
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