Your favorite strange sounding word

Originally posted by whaaa
SPHAGNUM

how do you pronounce that??



Roswell.

I think it's.......

sssss...fag...num....a type of moss

new word.....


fracas

So there I was out scraping ice off the windshield of the pickup and like a bolt of lightning a word popped into my head. Naturally like a flash I rushed back to my computer to share my vision. And here it is.....



Sprinkle

Originally posted by whaaa
So there I was out scraping ice off the windshield of the pickup and like a bolt of lightning a word popped into my head. Naturally like a flash I rushed back to my computer to share my vision. And here it is.....



Sprinkle

LOL

is that a dipthong?

I've been using hiatus all day today.

Appropriately and inappropriately.

Chrismonhunaquansadarmarama

Somthin like all the relgion's holidays during the Xmas season wrapped into one.


Go crazy with it,

Peace,
Naz

When i was an engineer i wanted to know what the PTFE in the PTFE tape mean't
Polytetrafluoroethelyne
its just a beautiful word, rolls right off the tongue.

superb.

greatest word ever invented.

diplomat

let's break that down

Dip - lo - mat

d i p l o m a t

It sounds like a degrading term for someone in such a prestigous position.

dip- well that's self explanatory
lo- not hi?
mat- something you step on.

This thread has begun to haunt my very soul. As if my language wasn't colorful enough with my liberal use of profanity; now I listen to others conversations hoping to gleen yet another gem. Here's the latest from a chamber maid talking to her paramour.

squeegee

homobasidiomycetes

Alice sat on one.

reply to post by Badge01


Sat on one? I think she ate one... or two.

The English language has so many words! So many ways to express ones self.

Floccinaucinihilipilification

"United States Senator Jesse Helms proclaimed his floccinaucinihilipilification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in a July 1999 hearing."

I was gonna say deoxyribonucleic acid, but than that's not exactly English. So I'll settle for this instead:

Spelunking. Only second to the word squeegee.

*looks at whaaa