BS: Words that are fun to say

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 01:21 PM

OOMPHECTOMY! Gave my doctor a bareful glance and asked "You're taking out my oomph?" She didn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: bflat
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 01:03 PM

I like: slug; smarmy and will-o'-the-wisp.

bflat

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Ringer
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 12:52 PM

I knew we'd been here before.

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From: Ringer
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 12:45 PM

Polyp

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From: Airto
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 12:06 PM

Sometimes it's a pleasure to be annoyed when you can vent your spleen (another nice expression) with a satisfactory exclamation.

Ssshhhhhiite and onions! You little maggot! Jjjames's Street! Ya durty lookin eejit! Ya bloody mallet!

Another I like when said in the style of American racecourse commentators is "They'rrre off an running..."

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Noreen
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 12:05 PM

....which is another good one!

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From: Noreen
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 12:04 PM

My dad used to say "Slubberdigullion"- is it really a place name in Ireland or was I gullible??

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: mousethief
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 12:00 PM

Applicable only has 4 syllables.

I pronounce it with the accent on the 2nd. uh-PLICK-uh-bull. Perhaps that's a regional thing?

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: GUEST,Mickey191
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 11:53 AM

Snuffy,1st syllable, according to my English teacher & American Heritage Dictionary. (Non Guest Mickey191)

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Kim C
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 11:23 AM

Gitchegumee. (dont know how to spell it)

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From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 10:28 AM

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Tucumcari

Por favor, mas cervesas aqui por mis amigos!

Guinness, please.

odious (child)

slug!

oaf!

dredge

paragon

fenderberg (found on your automobile after driving in snow)

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: GUEST,Bill in Alabama
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 08:18 AM

Carol C:

Great name! When I first trained in dialectology, I had the honor to study with and work with a distinguished scholar whose name was Raven McDavid. I always thought that was a mellifluous moniker.

Bill Foster

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: P05139
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 05:02 AM

I love some Russian words.

Dostopreemelchatelnostee (sight seeing) is fun and I can really wind up my boyfriend by saying

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwryndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Did I spell it right??)

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Flloccinaucinilihiliphication (I think that's right)

Well, I'm into Hippomonstrosesquipedalianism!!

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: CarolC
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 04:56 AM

There used to be a guy (maybe still is), who was (is) connected with something in Washington DC (Smithsonian? Natl. Gallery?) whose name was (is) Michael Carmichael Car.

I think that's my favorite name. (Try saying it over and over.)

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 04:33 AM

Tickety boo

poppycock

Tigglumpshous (a name I call my cat)

Squeegee

Perambulate

Pernickety

Culpable

Columbus

Conquistadors

and so on!

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Snuffy
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 07:41 PM

I've never heard applicable said any other way? Do you stress it on the 1st 3rd 4th or 5th syllable?

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: The Shambles
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 07:17 PM

During my time in Shetland I remember seeing a sweet little girl called Alison at home, when see should have been at school. I asked her why she was home and she replied that mummy wouldn't let her go the school because she "had the soft soft skitter".

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: RWilhelm
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 06:49 PM

catamaran franchise

BTW, William Safire wrote all of Spiros big words.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: GUEST,Nancy King
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 06:29 PM

A bunch of my favorites have already been listed, but no one's mentioned "lugubrious"... --Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 05:56 PM

Slobberknockin, as in a slobberknockin good time.

Svetlana, which I have adopted as a nickname, as in Princess Svetlana of Antioch, Keeper of the Holy Giant Spoon.

Punkin. Snickerdoodle. Hunnybunny. Puppydog.

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From: GUEST,Mickey191
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 04:53 PM

Irish town names I love-Skibereen,Clonakilty,Cahirciveen. Ever been to Tilly Foster, N.Y. If you say applicable with the accent on the 2nd syllable people (some people) giggle. I also like giggle. Bill D. Hoboken & Weehawken are towns in N.J.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: annamill
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 02:53 PM

Scamper reminded me of a DJ who called himself Greaseman who had the greatest words for anything unmentionable on radio. Such as "The Damper Scamper". A friend and I (before Honey) called our little sailboat "The Damper Scamper". How cute!

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bert
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 02:05 PM

I don't think this thread would be complete without a mention of Jake Thackray. He is a master of using words and phrases that are fun to say.

Here's and example.

Take the time to read it all the way through.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:55 PM

Here you go Mrs. C.............cool site.

CLICK HERE

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Cobble
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:49 PM

I love FUSTILARIAN and BESLUBBERING words I gleaned from

ELizabethen Insults Site

www.renfaire.com/language.html

soooo sorry I must learn how the blue clicky thing

works!!!

Mrs.C.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: fat B****rd
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:48 PM

Shoshone, coniption and brgadocious

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Trevor
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:39 PM

I like 'scamper'. Somebody said it in the pub last night and it sounded really choochi. And I like choochi.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: mousethief
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:28 PM

If everybody uses the words in polite society, they will cease to be thrilling.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:18 PM

Bert's playback to me above on the "fuckoff" thing reminds me of one of Lenny Bruce's stories. After one of his many arrests for obscenity, the case goes to court.

The prosecutor says, "Your honor, he said cocksucker!"
Judge: "He said cocksucker?"
Prosecutor: "Yes, cocksucker....that's what he said, cocksucker."
Clerk: "I have it as 'cocksucker'...is that correct? Cocksucker?"
Judge: "That's what I understand. Cocksucker. That is right isn't it Mr. Prosecutor? Cocksucker?"
Prosecutor: "Yes, he said cocksucker. Right there in front of the police and everybody he said cocksucker."
Judge: "Well I just can't believe he said cocksucker to the police. I can't imagine using the word cocksucker."

After awhile it becomes obvious that they like saying the word. Most are to uptight to use it, but NOW its testimony so its OK and they love it!

One of Lenny's funnier bits, but again, based in truth. We get some thrill out of the words, but most of us won't use them in "polite" society.....most of us....well, most of YOU anyway...................

Spaw(:<))

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: kendall
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 12:51 PM

Orts, Savagrus, pod auger. tofit.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bert
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 12:28 PM

Collywobbles

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From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 12:16 PM

I don't know Alex, I've never heard "thrawn" before. "Thran" is Ulster Scots as far as I know (cue debate over whether or not Ulster Scots is a language - I think it's a dialect myself, but there's plenty of scope for disagreement which can easily get political, so I'd just like to point out that it's a lovely word whatever it is!).

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: mousethief
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 12:10 PM

Fib, is that the same as "thrawn" or are they 2 different words?

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: GUEST,kaleb
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 11:43 AM

Ashtabula

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 11:25 AM

"Gnarled" because it's really onomatopoeic.

"Thran", which is what you are when you're being sulky/angry/obtuse etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 10:47 AM

Lots of my favorites are already on the list, I'll add Subaru, glutinous, slap-dash and bamboozle.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: sophocleese
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 10:34 AM

sub-glacial precipitate
spelunking
troglodyte

A couple that have come up in opur song circle recently;

purloined
prestidigitation

There's a couple of phrases I like to spoonerize because they sound so neat.

large boobs - barge loobs
fire trucks - Spaw can tell us about it

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Micca
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 08:57 AM

Shamb, that word skitters was pronounced "Scutters " in Ireland where I grew up and my Grandad assured me it originated from The Crimean war and the hospital at Scutari where dysentry was rife and it became slang for diahoerria, dont know if this is truth or fancy but it is another one of those words, as is Oleaginous, and swamp,

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 06:35 AM

(cackling hysterically) Love it, Gervase!
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Gervase
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 05:56 AM

Gusset - now that's a fine word. A friend won a bottle of champagne for managing to get the words "moist gusset" into the hallowed pages of the Daily Mail.
She worked on the paper's diary page (working for a five-star shit called Dumpster) and rose to the bait when someone bet her a bottle of pop that she couldn't get those words into one of "his" columns.
A tricky one - until she hit on the answer. At the end of some fatuous picture caption featuring Caroline Strangely-Brown or Ffiona Ffuchs-Tightly or whomsoever she added the words: "She has also been seen on the arm of legendary French playboy Moi St Gusset."
The champage was duly earned - but what put the icing on the cake was when the Mail news pages did some meretricious round-up of "It" girls and social trash a couple of months later, and some hack trawled up the original clipping and blindly lifted the offending paragraph without realising it was a piss-take. Who knows, Moi St Gusset may yet ride again!

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 04:32 AM

Great Rogers think alike, Sham, I was going to say "gusset" as well!
Second choice: tintinabulation
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 03:04 AM

Bill, you missed Chatanooga choo-choo...and Apalachacola, F-l-a.

I think my favorite, however, is bumbershoot.

Hornswoggle and foc'sle, arugula, amoebic dysentery, crepuscular, nother (as in "a whole nother"), carbuncle, whether gem or zit.

--seed

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: The Shambles
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 02:18 AM

The name of a village here in Dorset, Hazelbury Bryan.

Oh and lot's of Shetland dialect words, like 'Skitter'. Which is another word for soft-shit.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: MarkS
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 11:20 PM

Paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde - Pronounced to the tune of "The Irish Washerwoman"
Shacksembender - Name of a planet from an old Sci Fi story
My favorite, name of a town in central Pennsylvania, Nanty Glo
MarkS

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: kendall
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 09:32 PM

grismal..combo of grim and dismal (Gordon Bok)

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: John Hardly
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 09:24 PM

...I mean Night WING!

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: John Hardly
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 09:22 PM

"...as I sat, listening to the nervous stacato of rain on my desktop, and reading my name on the office door--regnaD kciN..." "At your cervix" "..unfortunately, the dime was in my pocket..."

Thanks for the memories, Nighthawk!

John

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 08:15 PM

Tallahasee, Walla-Walla and Oshkosh ....

and when I was a kid, I had a book where a railroad was mentioned, have no idea if it was real...
The 'Weehawken, Hoboken and Troy'

and remember on Jack Benny? "Ananheim, Azusa, and KUK-amonga"

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Snuffy
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 08:05 PM

Names can be delicious to roll off the tongue:

Slartibartfast (obviously)
Abolhassan Banisadr
Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (pron. Bewly)
Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Twistleton-Fiennes
Ayatollah Homeini
Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Gro Harlem Bruntland
etc., etc., etc.

Wassail! V

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 08:05 PM

to me one of the most beautiful words in the english language, as it rolls off your tongue is the word:

elbow.

btw; poppycock derives from dutch (pappekak) softshit (reference to babyshit)

there are a number of first nations place names in British Columbia, that I like the sound of such as.,

Keremeos, Similkameen, or Kitwangaa.

(I also like Massachusetts.)

one time on a golf trip I asked a buddy of mine of Italian origin how his team did in the world cup. but it came out like a Ned Flanderism.

How did Italy do? Italy did diddly.

thats what I heard the rest of the trip.