Some Words Are Just Fun to Say
Take "Lederhosen" for example. I can't say Lederhosen without smiling, or almost giggling. It just conjures up silly images of grown men with knobby knees with leather hiking boots and knee-length wool sox with the cuffs turned down, and little William Tell hats with a feather stuck in the band, blowing on an alpen horn, or snogging on a bratwurst and quaffing a stein full of full bodied ale.
It's also fun to work it into conversations:
"Hang on to your Lederhosen, we're GOIN' IN ! , or
"Calm Down! Don't get your lederhosen in a knot!", or
"What should I wear today, my black biker lederhosen, or my brown Swiss mountain meadow Studmuffin lederhosen?"
Deter, here, went with the latter:
I'm also very glad that we kept the original German name with out translating it to English. "Leather trousers (shorts)" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
So, what are some of your favorite fun words to say? (No bad words, please!!!)
posted by Papa @ 7:44 PM
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Preponderance
Plethora
Deign (would not deign to soil my blade with his miserable common blood)
and of course.......wait for it........
Inconceivable!!!!!!!
Thank you
Defenestration!!!
Also my favorite french phrase:
Je suis le pamplemousse. For all of you who don't parle le francis, this means I am the pamplemousse. (Grapefruit).
My roomies and I started yelling I am the pamplemousse as a war cry to psych us up for things we didn't want to do. John Lennon gets to be the walrus, why can't i be the pamplemousse
contemplative
persnicketty (sp?)
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And I second all of Adam's and Nantie Meg's, too. "You keep using that word...I do not think it means what you think it means."
Serendipidus is pretty fun to say. Not so fun to spell, but fun to say.
This was great. Some of mine: preposterous
perspicacious
superfluous
chicken
cookie
plink
words with a 'k'...
Goodie Gumdrops
Yippee Skippee
Pucilanimous (I don't know what it means and have probably misspelled it, but it has a great sound to it)
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I had missed this first post. It makes the second one make SO much more sense. :)Bescherelle! My favorite frenchy word. :)
I don't know why but I love the word Pumpernickle I don't think I spelled it right ,but it's a great word!
I also like to make up words like awsomer, funnierist, looserific and ofcourse bubblerdoven.
I also like the word antidisastabilshmenttarianism!
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One of my favorites is obfuscate.
One of the secretaries at work once complained to me that I always used technical words that she didn't understand. I told her I was sorry, I really didn't mean to obfuscate.
If looks could kill I'd be a dead man.
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