funny looking words!!!

[ving (David)]

can kyou think of any words that make you giggle like a little school girl when you see them?

I'll start with "enacted"

it just doesnt look right to me
maybe i should cut down on my sugar intake

[Volans]

"syzygy"

[acropolite (Phil)]

buttinski (it's a phone telco techs use for testing)

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by acropolite

buttinski (it's a phone telco techs use for testing)

Otherwise known as a buttphone.
Serious!

google is my contribution.

[RAJAH235]

One that has always amazed me is, 'disgruntled'. Anyone bin 'gruntled' lately? ... L.

[RB (Andrew)]

I love how the word "ambidextrous" can be written the same way using either hand if you're gifted that way.....

[vespine]

I like optometrist, but only if you pronounce it with emphasis on the wrong syllables, like opto from "opto-couple" and metrist with the emphasis on the E. opto-mEtrist.

I am also a fan of the *-able words, like: comfortable, washable, visible, debatable. They have quite varied meanings but all in some way are enabled to perform or provide the word they modify: comfort, wash, vision and debate.

There are MANY examples and I particularly enjoy making up my own, such as: Sometimes you can be so idiotable; that place is always funable; that guy's face is just SO punchable.

[Miaplacidus (Brian)]

oophorectomy?

[syzygy]

Originally Posted by Volans

"syzygy"

Hmmmm, Well I think a fish with wings would be damn funny as well!

[Volans]

Originally Posted by syzygy

Hmmmm, Well I think a fish with wings would be damn funny as well!

Touche Syzygy...Touche ...may I ask as to what you are in alignment with?

I know this is not exactly what Ving asked for but for a good collection of funny and real words, see if you can get a copy of "The Superior Person's Little Book of Words" by Peter Bowler.

Here is a word that I sometimes use while at work: "mystagogue". If applied to yourself then you are a person who instructs/teaches in mystical or arcane lore. I firmly believe that astronomy falls under the category of mystical and arcane so I introduce myself in the following way while doing a public show - Good afternoon to you all. My name is Peter and I will be your mystagogue for this afternoon's show.

None has ever come up to me and asked what I have meant by that!

Peter.

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Its ironic that the word phonetic isn't spelled phonetically

[mickoking]

Syllogism


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