[TheConservator]

Really?

How about yclept?

Or callipygian?

Or queueing?

Or borborygmus?

[big truck]

Then there’s:

Balderdash
Persnickety
Discombobulate

[jmacusa]

“Could’’, would’’, ‘’should’’.

Why are these words spelled with an ‘’l’’ in them but the ‘’l’’ is never pronounced?

[mabarker1]

What the heck, I'll jump in on this, I must add that I had some assistance from other FReepers before deciding that it was complete.

demonratcommieblmantifaterrorscumfeminaziguanopathicpedophilegoatrapers

[21twelve]

I think we said kitty wampus. Or perhaps I’m thinking of kitty corner. (Or was that catty corner??)

[Texas Eagle]

Gardyloo

Added to the English language by the Scottish people of Edinburgh, gardyloo is similar to the golf term ‘fore’, but much grosser. Invented at a time when chamber pots were common, the word is an amalgamation of ‘guard below’ and ‘loo’ a British term for the toilet.

Scottish people would shout gardyloo before emptying their chamber pots out of their bedroom windows, giving the people below a few seconds to get out of the way.

Say what? People threw their crap out onto the street???

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Gerrymandering

[BamaBelle]

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.

[heartwood]

How about the ordinary sounding, but obscure?

Drey.

Delope.

[albie]

Hemidemisemiquaver

[DAC21]

Zzyzx,

Unincorporated town in the California desert with a population of 1.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Ointment

[nonliberal]

Defenestration: to throw someone out of a window. This happened with such frequency that we needed a word in English for that particular occurrence.

[Track9]

I misunderestimated that

[FlingWingFlyer]

Number one is “immigration” and number 2 is “asylum.”

[ArtDodger]

The ever popular, ‘blurb’

[Sirius Lee]

I hope this thread doesn’t turn into a donnybrook, fisticuffs and all.

[Hyman Roth]

Colonel Angus.

[Hyman Roth]

Scrawberry Skreet. Skrimp. Oh wait. That’s Ebonics.

[FreedomPoster]

You might have an opportunity to weigh in here.