alocispepraluger102 Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 (edited) to me, diphthong is kind of diphhy. Edited April 25, 2012 by alocispepraluger102 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dipthong&defid=2255088 To quote: dipthong 56 up, 134 down A smoking cessation method where a young lady places a handful of Skoal in her panties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocispepraluger102 Posted April 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dipthong&defid=2255088 To quote: dipthong 56 up, 134 down A smoking cessation method where a young lady places a handful of Skoal in her panties. the implications therein are vast, indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 I don't know about funny, but I always found "obliterate" to be rather mellifluous for its meaning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Here's a two-in-one: "pud" and "wattle": Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 I'm pulling my wattle right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 I've always though ANCIENT was funny peculiar - I before E, except after C. (There are lots of words with E before I, after C or not.) MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 I guess because it's a romance language borrowing. I like how venerable sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 "funnel" is fun except when it's a cloud "fennel" is fun and is never a cloud "flannel" is more fun in the abstract than in the concrete "concrete" is damn near never fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 I'm flummoxed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 bugger Especially when said by a Cornishman (or woman - my aunt used it wonderfully as a term of affectionate abuse) with a never ending rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocispepraluger102 Posted April 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 (edited) when notoriety, notorious, and infamous are used as words of praise, (and i hear them from the media every day), i get a warm tinkle down my leg. Edited April 25, 2012 by alocispepraluger102 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 "concrete" is damn near never fun Noj enjoying the hell out of concrete: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 bugger Especially when said by a Cornishman (or woman - my aunt used it wonderfully as a term of affectionate abuse) with a never ending rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I visited South Wales once, but I didn't make it to Llareggub.If you're a word maven and you don't know Michael Quinion's World Wide Words, you ought to. http://www.worldwidewords.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 "concrete" is damn near never fun Noj enjoying the hell out of concrete: Cool! Wish I could do that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stryker Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Specific words aside, placement and context can have an impact, especially if you are trying to write funny. The Pulitzer Prize winning feature writer Gene Weingarten once put it this way: “Always try to put the funniest word at the end of your sentence underpants.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Nelson Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 "CREVICE... now there's a perfectly disgusting word!" Stephen Fry as General Melchett in 'Black Adder Goes Forth', during WWI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 I find feckless hilarious for some reason...having an Irish scatological sense of humor, I often associate that word with feculent. Though American, I enjoy certain British words like shambolic, gormless...(Also really dig the Brit term gone pear-shaped, despite the meaning being rather unclear!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 "Brass monkey" appeals to me, as in: "It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." Do you have brass monkeys in the U.S. as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 (edited) Regional words are fabulous - some can be as specific as just a few towns and villages. Common one's among's my kids at school in the British East Midlands: 'mardy' or 'mardy-arse' - bad tempered. 'wagging it' - truanting 'duck' (pronounced like look) - sort of like 'my dear' or 'old chap'. 'Eh Up, me duck' = Hello! Good day! 'nesh' - scared. After 34 years in the area I'm just beginning to understand. Edited April 25, 2012 by A Lark Ascending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 (edited) "Brass monkey" appeals to me, as in: "It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." Do you have brass monkeys in the U.S. as well? Not in my formative neck of the woods (Upper Midwest) - the old farmers' term in that area is "colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra" or "colder than the nipple on a witch's tit"* *Memorable (to my warped mind) quotation from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: Colder than the nipple on a witch's tit! Colder than a bucket of penguin shit! Colder than the hair on a polar bear's ass! Colder than the frost on a Champagne glass! Edited April 25, 2012 by T.D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 'duck' (pronounced like look) - sort of like 'my dear' or 'old chap'. 'Eh Up, me duck' = Hello! Good day! Wouldn't that be a variant on "Ducky," as Marlene Dietrich use it in Witness for the Prosecution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Mook. I also love how a phrase like "chewed a new asshole" can be reiterated as "torn a new turdcutter." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Late Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 I enjoy certain British words like shambolic ... I actually first encountered that word while reading The Penguin Guide to Jazz. I also learned the word "shibboleth" from the PGJ. Using the phrase "one-off" was not in my lexicon until reading the PGJ as well. There are a few other terms from that book (2nd ed. is the one I read most) that will come to mind sooner or later. And as for the Urban Dictionary (linked above), I had no idea about the term "Shaniqua" and all its connotations. Now I know better ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free For All Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Bollocks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_forumlogo.png.a607ef20a6e0c299ab2aa6443aa1f32e.png)
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.