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Love that Calvin & Hobbes! Smock smock smock!
‘Umbrella’ is another odd one. A word beginning with ‘umm’? Whatever next?!
canker
I took a whole course in university about estranging the everyday. Words, objects, ideas… It’s really weird to step back and look at normal things til they seem highly unusual and even comical!
cashew
kerfuffle
panache
goiter
Cool Whip
Blog
Duty
scissors
soap
Problem. It sounds like it ought to be an onomatopoeia of something a gloopy fluid does.
These ones sound more like words that ought to be “bad,” but they still sound funny, too…
1. Micturition
2. Masticate
3. Pump’n Munch (I can’t imagine whoever would choose to name their gas station that – but just saying it out loud makes me laugh)
I have always thought that peoples names start to sound funny when you say them over and over.
Ha. Great post!
machete
“machete”
Gesundheit.
forehead
Last week for this very reason I had to run spell check on the word “been” because it appeared too absurd to be possible.
FWIW, Ed Clowney, former president of Westminster Seminary, maintained that this effect was at the root of much Eastern mysticism. Perseverate on any word and the discursive part of our brain would be thrown into neutral and what he called the intuitive would take over, leading some to believe they had become one with the universe.
I have personally become one with the universe through regular perseveration on the words “trouser,” “modality” and “spiny mouse.”
In addition to grounding Eastern Mysticism, this also seems to be the phenomenon responsible for the postmodern appeal of Zippy the Pinhead.
hoist
“Wasps” made me think of “crisps”, which is what the British say for potato chips. The “sps” sound is almost impossible for speakers of English as a second language to get. I find this funny somehow.
Try saying chicken and kitchen together.
Shampoo – Why would we put a product named after fake feces in our hair to clean it? sMock me if you must.
“moist”
“DISMISS” gave me trouble the other day when I saw it in all caps.
crown
My roommate, in college, and I would stay up for hours contemplating words that are awkward to say (and repeat) and ones that were pleasing. The two that we kept coming back to were:
Weird
“Prostrate”
Nice
“Green”
pouch
Pastor Micheal, when you said Perseverate did you mean Persevere? I am writing a commentary on this post for chamblee54, and the spell check threw that back at me.
Thank you for this post. I was going to write about liberal and consservative hypocrisy, and this is much more fun.
Check out/remember the classic Buffalo buffalo buffalo… sentence.
Shampoo is probably the worst.
One of the weirdest words I can think of:
some
definitely doesn’t sound like it looks,
or look how it sounds.
At 5 years old, I used to perserverate on the word shovel and how weird it was.
could
Cookie!
parka
Yessssss… you even linked the cartoon! :-D
Chamblee:
perseverate: continuation of something (as repetition of a word) usually to an exceptional degree or beyond a desired point
–perseverate \-*se-v*-*r*t\ intransitive
(Not sure Clowney used that term though. I learned it from the mental health field.)
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game
I told my colleagues this morning about this post and commented that words even more fun to read than English or those in Swahili!
I wrote about them on my blog:
http://globeshift.blogspot.com/2008/04/22-swahili-words-or-phrases-that-are.html
Karibu!
doodle
purple.
Well sir, may I ask…….is your MacArthur reference to Douglas or John? In my time the mental picture of the pipe smoking General comes to mind, but then in later years that image of a MacArthur was replaced by the pastor from CA……then, as an afterthought the General might take a puff if he were still with us and think repeating PIPER would be kinda funny as well. Lighter moments are ok.
1. Eleven
2. Fluffy
3. Blimp
4. Plump
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ignominy
bubble
whisk
tin
the buffalo sentence–hilarious and stress producing!
Tehachapi! (CA)
another “Gesundheit!” word
This is a great post.
“Peculiar”
or, to really make a tongue twister:
“Peculiarly”
What.
The word.
“Word”
Just say it a few times.
OR
even your own name.
Ill say my name and it just sounds so weird.
“Who ever came up with all these names.”
I’ll think to myself.
room sounds wierd
room room room
oh i almost forgot-
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAY TAY!