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The strangest words in the English language
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| Updated February 25, 2025
| Dr. Thomas Kenny
Posted on 08/08/2025 12:04:37 AM PDT by kawhill
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To: 21twelve
I grew up using kitty corner and cattywampus, and tump, as in “the potted plant was tumped over”.
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posted on
08/08/2025 2:35:03 AM PDT
by
FamiliarFace
(I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
To: kawhill
I say thingamagig and doohickey a good bit. Discombobulated is something I used to hear a lot. My mammaw used to refer to smelly stuff as “stinks like karn” (that’s the way she pronounced it...which one day I tried looking that up and realized that maybe she was referring to cairn which can be a burial place in Scotland. She is Irish-Scot with some Dutch origin.
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posted on
08/08/2025 2:37:25 AM PDT
by
BamaBelle
(Psa 143:8 - ...cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.)
To: Dr. Franklin
In Britain you pee in the water closet, which is located in the toilet.
To: kawhill
How about the ordinary sounding, but obscure?
Drey.
Delope.
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posted on
08/08/2025 3:08:45 AM PDT
by
heartwood
(Please blame all ridiculous or iinappropriate words on autocorrect. Thank you. )
To: kawhill
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posted on
08/08/2025 3:10:03 AM PDT
by
albie
To: kawhill
Zzyzx,
Unincorporated town in the California desert with a population of 1.
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posted on
08/08/2025 3:12:01 AM PDT
by
DAC21
To: kawhill
To: kawhill
Defenestration: to throw someone out of a window. This happened with such frequency that we needed a word in English for that particular occurrence.
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posted on
08/08/2025 3:26:51 AM PDT
by
nonliberal
(Russia is not my enemy.)
To: kawhill
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posted on
08/08/2025 3:27:16 AM PDT
by
Track9
(Make haste slowly. )
To: Daveinyork
"water closet"
I had to look that one up a couple of weeks ago.
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posted on
08/08/2025 3:44:25 AM PDT
by
Bikkuri
(I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
To: kawhill
Number one is “immigration” and number 2 is “asylum.”
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posted on
08/08/2025 3:53:06 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(They brought down the WTC now we're electing them to all government positions in the U.S.)
To: kawhill
The ever popular, ‘blurb’
To: kawhill
I hope this thread doesn’t turn into a donnybrook, fisticuffs and all.
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posted on
08/08/2025 3:56:49 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
To: Sirius Lee
Fustian, you sialoquent blatherskite. What kind of tatterdemalion ninnycock do you take me for?
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posted on
08/08/2025 4:19:09 AM PDT
by
Eepsy
To: kawhill
To: kawhill
Scrawberry Skreet. Skrimp. Oh wait. That’s Ebonics.
To: Lazamataz
You might have an opportunity to weigh in here.
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posted on
08/08/2025 4:29:52 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: BamaBelle
My Granny used to say that she was going to “bobscribble” me.
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posted on
08/08/2025 4:33:12 AM PDT
by
fredhead
(Duty, Honor, Country - Words to live by.)
To: Bikkuri
Labels on the heads on Navy ships stated, “Crew WC, WR and SH”
Water Closet, Wash Room and Shower.
BTW for you landlubbers, Head is the restroom.
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posted on
08/08/2025 4:35:46 AM PDT
by
fredhead
(Duty, Honor, Country - Words to live by.)
To: Texas Eagle
“People threw their crap out onto the street???”
I’ve heard that’s the reason why, when a lady and gentleman are walking together, the man is on the outside. It started because the trajectory of the crap thrown out the window would be more likely to hit the far side of where people were walking.
IDK if true — just what I’ve heard.
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posted on
08/08/2025 4:45:46 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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