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Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

jojo — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:50:51 -0000

Stumbled on this, but just had to comment: I'm another person who can recite Jabberwocky from memory. Sometimes, I do it in my head in a British accent.

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

paul — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:14:50 -0000

I don't want FOP god dammit! i'm a dapper dan man!!!!

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paul — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:13:40 -0000

deus ex machina = machine of the gods. its rewarding to pay attention in middle school

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Errol — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:16:38 -0000

Oh my GOD I adore defenestrate and all your other words. I should have done this because it's useful for building someone's vocabulary

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

andi — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:11:19 -0000

hi, just checking out ur words - i will write back when i feel amused..........!

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

Zoe — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:42:28 -0000

One word I think that should be added is : Salubrious - favorable to health of mind or body; "not the most salubrious campsite"; "one of the less salubrious suburbs".

Using it in completely the wrong context is also fun.

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

anshu — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:13:36 -0000

i too can recite jabberwocky.. learnt it in class 3 and i still remember it. my favourite poem ever. you know what word should be used in real life.. "uffish"

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

John — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:12:52 -0000

some of my favs are:

verisimilitude- n. the appearance or semblance of truth
omphaloskepsis- n. the contemplation of one's navel
moiety- n. a half; a portion
ataraxia- n. a state of freedom from disturbance of the mind

I have yet to be able to use any of them in normal conversation however. :P

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

Jason — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:05:30 -0000

Regarding fop - I always found both that and the associated word "dandy" amusing. And defenestrate has been my favorite word for ages... I love that there's a word for the act of throwing something out of the window.

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

Alex — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:57:37 -0000

fenestra is actually Latin for window. see what i did there? its called etymology. i have no idea where the word 'etymology' comes from.

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trwww — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:46:21 -0000

defenestrate is totally a normal word, i've heard people use it

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ladytatts — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:45:22 -0000

I was under the impression that the word "defenestrate" meant to disembowel someone. Who knew!

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mike sanders — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:03:43 -0000

love all of them I am a word nut, one of my favourites is loquacious it is so onomatopoeic another of my faves. The english language is so rich with over 300,00 words, next closest id german with circa 100,000. Also like the hotshots entry I had never seen it like that before because it is not so obvious as others of that ilk (another good word)

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

Him — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:12:59 -0000

I have liked the word Defenestrate ever since I saw it in a Calvin and Hobbes book about 15 years ago.

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demetri — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:26:37 -0000

ive never seen so many corny things said on one site.

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

Erik Persson — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:04:04 -0000

Cool site but I'm in the US so pronunciation defaults to West Coast American accent. According to Merriam Webster Deus Ex is pronounced like so... http://www.merriam-webster....

While it sounds pretty cool, we don't pronounce laser like this either http://www.howjsay.com/inde...
I also spell color like color. Not colour...

The metric system is superior however.

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

Henk — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:54:12 -0000

Pronounciation: http://www.howjsay.com/

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Henk — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:52:10 -0000

your => you're, forgot to check it before submitting.

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Henk — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:51:19 -0000

And still your pronouncing 'deus' wrong.
The last syllable should rhyme with 'puss'.

While I'm at it: 'Doppelganger' should rhyme with 'hangar'.

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

Gavin — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:31:08 -0000

Great list, I will have to add Agnomen to my vocabulary.

Small typo, to/too confusion. Crapulous: ...who ingests totoo much food or...

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

hoeltgman — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:44:00 -0000

Doppelganger comes from the german word Doppelgänger. And the meaning in German is also the same.
It's another of those words that escaped german and entered english. Kindergarten is another of these words.

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Big_P — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:04:15 -0000

BTW, doppelganger is german too: Doppelgänger

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

Winkle-picker wearer — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:31:52 -0000

Here are some words I find amusing:

1. zenzizenzizenic- the eighth power of a number

2. pana po'o- to scratch your head to remember something (Hawaiian)

It seems there is a word for everything!

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

Erik Persson — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:19:52 -0000

1. (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot.

2. any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.

deus ex machina. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved February 13, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference...

Re: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me

Ummmm — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:47:01 -0000

Deus Ex Machina, uhhhh you made an error there dude it doesnt mean that, its from greek tragedy, it means god from the machine it refers to the stage "effect" created by a crane in the ancient greek theater.......... oh well =P its still funny