10 Words That Sound Funny
1. Pistachios
2. Bulbous
3. Matriculate
4. Obsequious
5. Kumquat
6. Panty
7. Hornswoggle
8. Scallywag
9. Cockamamie
10. Orifice
1. Pistachios
2. Bulbous
3. Matriculate
4. Obsequious
5. Kumquat
6. Panty
7. Hornswoggle
8. Scallywag
9. Cockamamie
10. Orifice
Oh you scallywag…I used “cockamamie” in a blog recently! Are you stealing my material???
I look forward to reading your list of words that are fun to say…”cartouche” and “onomatopoeia” are two of my favourites.
I am stealing your material, but don’t be jealous. I steal everybody’s material. Plagiarism is the guts of good journalism, I say.
P.S. — Cartouche is a great word. Rolls off the tongue so nicely.
can NOT pronounce #4 no matter how hard I try. Great list….Here’s one for ya. Out of all I learned in nursing school the one word that comes to mind more often than any other is SMEGMA…doesn’t sound so weird but it smells awful…lmbo!!!
It’s Ob-see-qwee-us. But no worries, I was raised British and couldn’t pronounce aluminum until I was about 30 years old. I said al-u-min-nium.
Smegma is a great word. But it makes a terrible sauce.
I had to practice #4. Thanks for the lesson this morning.
Don’t the Brits spell aluminum differently?
A great list… to which I would add two of my personal favorites…
~discombobulated
~perfunctory
Discombobulated is one of my favorites. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it.
OMG, you were raised British?
Really? This elevates you to an even higher level of coolness.
But only if you still have the accent.
Do you?
Almost three years ago, I blogged about one of the funniest words I could think of. And for some reason it’s only funny to me.
You can read about it here.
http://jannaverse.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-make-me-laugh-if-youre-too-lazy.html
Sorry, are you unable to tell that I have an English accent?
Completely unaware and totally clueless.
Sorry.
From now on I’ll try to imagine you sounding more like the Monty Python guys.
(Quick! Say something about the Holy Hand Grenade Of Antioch!)
It might also help if you’d start sticking U’s where they don’t belong, like flavour, honour, humour, savour, favourite, colour…
…And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, “O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy.”
And the Lord spake, saying, “First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceedest on to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.” Amen.
**Gasp!**
Amen!
I like the words: “obtuse” and “facetious”. It does funny things to my lips whenever I say them. Oh yes, and “ponder”. I always giggle at the word ponder for some odd reason. Weird? Yeah, I know.
Well, clearly #6 is the one I’m working into the ground.
Yes, I’d have to agree.
LOVE Scallywag. I’m going to use that today….somehow. I enjoy some crazy foreigners too.
Good luck to you as you hunt for situation that allows you to use scallywag in a sentence. I hope you don’t get punched in the nose over it.
hi i really enjoyed your post and i will be sure to read through the rest of your blog… I really appreciate the way in which you look at this subject, looking at this in a new light as they say.. bookmarked!
Thank you.
Thank you, kindly.