Wierd Sounding Words

[sdadw]

Enter Wierd Words... :eek:

I will start:

gnome :confused:

Why does gnome have a G, what does it do?

You mneed a word, a reason and a sentance or two saying how you feel about this word

australia, they already had Austria, they were looking for trouble... :mad: :mad: :mad:

Shepards Pie

There is only potato in it, what do potatoes have to do with shepard's?!!!

[Baller]

I really dont find those words strange but thats ok
Flopaganilatino is a weird word

[johhnywave]

I always found
TINTINNABULATION Weird.
Has to deal with
"Hear the sledges with the bells—
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!"
Edgar Allan Poe

[supermario]

supercalifragilisticexpialadocious... (no clue if it's spelled correctly)... I mean, any clue how this was even created?

[Freakums]

two wordsa, super mario,
Mary Poppins.
She said that word in the disney classic, although niot in the book.

wierd sounding words?
random. fish.
I have qa few that for no known reasons sound really wierd to me soemtimes . . . . . . .
maybe its just me on coffee.

[WiseOne]

Titillating...not sure if the spelling is right, but ya...
Crevice...just a weird word...

[donkey720]

scrounge because its the longest one syllable word it just sounds odd

[pollovivo]

two wordsa, super mario,
Mary Poppins.
She said that word in the disney classic, although niot in the book.

wierd sounding words?
random. fish.
I have qa few that for no known reasons sound really wierd to me soemtimes . . . . . . .
maybe its just me on coffee.

really, by common english grammatics, you could also spell 'fish' as 'ghoti' for the same pronounciation...

'gh'- 'f' as in trough, laugh, rough... etc.
'o'- 'i' as in women
'ti'- 'sh' as in declaration, ration, nation, etc.

Now THAT is wierd... :D

[NeonShadows]

I've heard about the ghoti thing. I always thought that was cool. Hmm, this isn't really an odd word but if you've ever tried to say, "sour sugar" really fast about 5 times, it can make some pretty weird sounding words.

[queeny]

ramalangadingdong, it sounds real cool. i know...i know... its not actually a word.
how about...pompacious, what kind of person uses language like that, bit weird really... coll sounding word though...

[HinesDaMan]

Gum

just say it a few times...it just sounds wierd when you say it more than once

[JsWoman]

No matter how many times I say gum it doesn't seem weird to me. But if anyone remembers the song "The Wheels On The Bus", there is one section that goes "The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish, swish swish swish, swish swish swish". I mean, you're supposed to say this at a moderate to fast pace and no matter how often I try I can't get it sound right, so if you want some weird sounding words, try saying that.

Edit: Just so you don't wonder, no I'm not a freak. I have a daughter, and we got the song book from the library, and the way it's phrased, if you want it to sound right you have to slow it down completely.... Or at least I do. :p

[yarnellcg17]

:o I got to trying that tune out..results were not very good..tongue tied myself a bit :o

[JsWoman]

I get to having weird words coming out of my mouth, that's why I put it here. And from a previous post that was put up on supercalifragilisticexpealidosious from the Mary Poppins movie, I agree that that's a weird word.

[yarnellcg17]

If anyone has seen a TV commercial that has these kids at a spelling bee.. the word is as long as supercalifragilisticexpealidosious...I keep trying to write that wierd word down..but I have no luck..let alone the kids trying to spell it out..

[JsWoman]

Yeah that is a wierd word, but I think it was a commercial on insurance... Saying how they had no complicated words in their contracts and clauses. Another wierd that I think is weird, even if it isn't weird sounding, is Santa. Where was that word/name ever thought up at?

[yarnellcg17]

Gives me something to look into

[yarnellcg17]

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS

(45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. (It is also spelled -koniosis.)
On Feb. 23, 1935, the New York Herald-Tribune reported on page 3:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis succeeded electrophotomicrographically as the longest word in the English language recognized by the National Puzzlers' League ...The puzzlers explained that the forty-five-letter word is the name of a special form of silicosis caused by ultra-microscopic particles of siliceous volcanic dust.

That word looks like files located deep in Drive C of peoples computers..

[lieandie]

this isnt just a word....a man, a plan, a canal: panama
now, take out the grammer and stuff and write it backwards
amanap lanac a nalp a nam a...............add spaces
a man a plan a canal panama I love that...it's like dad and mom only full sentences

[Otahotah]

do you ever have that feeling where you think about a word so much that it just sounds weird and not right when you say it? that happens to me all the time with "charlotte"

i think santa came from saint like how in spanish its always santa lucia or something like that

[J.J]

i think sponge is a weird word :S

[broken_x]

hmm, yeah, weird words... i think fish, hole, distilled, balls and parsnip r all weird words :p oooh and tounge.... wth?! its too confuzing for me... its only the morning too!

[JsWoman]

I think you meant tongue, but yeah, that is a weird word, or at least a weird spelling.

[Arkacia]

How about orange. Not only does it sound funny (in an Aussie accent anyway) but it is also the name of a colour and a fruit. Why name a fruit after its colour? You'd think whoever thought it up could have found something more interesting than just plain old orange.

[yarnellcg17]

Mahogany sounds a bit strange to me..although it is :rolleyes:

Any of various tropical American evergreen trees of the genus Swietenia, valued for their hard, reddish-brown wood.
Swietenia.. :eek: something fishy with that word..but anyhow I musn't digress:eek:

I better stop while I'm ahead..that last word sounds like something I seen in a biology class..and it wasn't pretty..

[JsWoman]

Am I weird for thinking slug a weird sounding word??

Weird or not, thats how I feel about that word.

[yarnellcg17]

Oh no your not weird at all in thinking slug is a weird sounding word...:D as I think it sounds weird too

[JsWoman]

Least I'm not the only one that thinks that. Here's another, that I'm not sure if it's been said, yet. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Also, where did they come up with carasuel (or however that's spelt)??

[yarnellcg17]

It's Italian on your carousel word..here is 1 I find a bit off base..

Fangled

[JsWoman]

Fangled, huh? What the heck does that mean? And ok on the word being Italian, but still.... I think it's a weird sounding word. :rolleyes:

Onto other words that I think are weird..... ROTFL

I know what it means, but who came up with only using the first letter of each word?

[yarnellcg17]

Fangled..it basically means Newmade (of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion or Newfangled)


ROTFL: those type slang are 1st letter based acronym..they go as far back as World War II and many GI's used them and even were used well after by service men and service women..
At the time the internet was being developed in the late 60's( more so for Dept.of Defense Use ) they too trickled into it..
By the time the early 90's came around and the internet became publicly allowed usable for commerce or private use..they were never forgotten and carried along to where they are being used today..

Hope that helps ya out...

[JsWoman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah... I know it's used in the military, but when was it brought into the civilian world??

[yarnellcg17]

Here is a word that is weird..

tintinnabulation

Comes from something Edgar Allan Poe described on the sound of something ringing..
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On when those words were used in the Civilian World more often..it would have been in the late 1960's...

[JsWoman]

Here's a couple weird words.....

Souffle, Wellington, Croquette, Catsup, and Quiche.

And that's just to do with cooking stuff.

[blazingeyes]

I don't know why but I find Knife a wierd word. Just because the K is silent.

Pneumonia is also an odd word...

[yarnellcg17]

I had forgotten all about this word from years past..

But is very off the wall wierd sounding..

DISCOMBOBULATE

To confuse, upset or disconcert.