Funny words
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jmatonakSome of these are funny ha-ha (to me) and some of them are peculiar.
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Apophenia
Attrit
Cohomological
Dropsical
Dysphoria
Nerf (because they can't all be polysyllabic, which... ooh...)
Polysyllabic
Remastered
Susurrus
I also wanted to include the word cumunabulum, which is from a sentence in Roger Zelazny's "Unicorn Variation":
...a bizarrerie of fires, a cumunabulum of light...
Dictionary.com does not admit the existence of this word. If I can puzzle out the Latin, it means a baby cloud or a cradle of clouds or the first beginnings of a cloud, or something. Dude was high.
Anonymizer
Apophenia
Attrit
Cohomological
Dropsical
Dysphoria
Nerf (because they can't all be polysyllabic, which... ooh...)
Polysyllabic
Remastered
Susurrus
I also wanted to include the word cumunabulum, which is from a sentence in Roger Zelazny's "Unicorn Variation":
...a bizarrerie of fires, a cumunabulum of light...
Dictionary.com does not admit the existence of this word. If I can puzzle out the Latin, it means a baby cloud or a cradle of clouds or the first beginnings of a cloud, or something. Dude was high.
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Date: 2006-12-14 08:30 pm (UTC)Okay, so it's Spanish. It might not count.
I think tintinnabulum and onomatopoeia are up there for funny/weird english. We have a word to describe words whose pronunciation imitates the sounds they define. How weird is that? Do we also have a word to describe words like "algebraic"?
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Date: 2006-12-16 12:07 pm (UTC)Only if "nerdalicious" is a word.