#27654
04/29/2001 1:43 PM
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What is the weirdest, most unusual, totally way out there word you have ever seen of heard?
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#27655
04/29/2001 1:52 PM
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Dear java: tsuwm has a site with enough weird words to keep you busy for a week. If you look at his profile, you can find the URL to his site. I have no idea how to pick the weirdest one there.
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#27656
04/29/2001 11:27 PM
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Welcome aBoard, java; don't think I've had the chance to do that yet.
I am always weirded out by hugger-mugger.
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#27657
04/30/2001 8:01 AM
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java, 'weird' is relative. Do you mean weird spelling or meaning? There's a hardware shop in these parts with a weird name (in the mystical sense): Obi.
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#27658
04/30/2001 3:16 PM
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bill, in my judgment the weirdest word there (today) is floccinaucinihilipilification. don't ask me again until tomorrow... http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/
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#27659
05/03/2001 4:52 PM
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I always get a kick out of hearing the word "sinusoidal" (describing graphs, etc.). It's not the weirdest word, but it makes the speaker sound like Bugs Bunny! 
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05/03/2001 5:05 PM
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"but it makes the speakers sound "
Sinusoidal waves make the speakers sound, and so do digitalized signals
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#27661
05/04/2001 4:14 PM
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Not very erudite, I fear, and I ask your pardon in advance but I find myself smiling when I hear the word "wriggle."
Nothing says it better when the word is needed especially when someone is trying to "wriggle out" of something!
And babies have wriggling down pat!
squirm and writhe just don't make it as exact synonyms.
Wriggle, wriggle, wriggle. Love it!
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#27662
05/04/2001 7:08 PM
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Under the same category - not unheard of but still fun - I would have to add the word "indubitably." It's so fun to say!
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#27663
05/05/2001 5:36 PM
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I find myself smiling when I hear the word "wriggle."You might enjoy the PA Dutch word "schusslich" (pronounced shoosh-lick): it's an adjective used to describe a person who is shifting restlessly in his or her seat. My parents often employed the verb form (schussle), as in "Stop your schussling! Church will be over in 5 minutes!" 
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#27664
05/06/2001 1:42 PM
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Wriggle, wriggle, wriggle. Love it! Tell me, WOW, are you the type of person who goes into convulsions after poking a lump of Jello and watching it dance? How about some weird looking words? Xerox comes to mind. And some idiot automobile factories are turning out cars named "Kil" and "Slturn" by replacing an English "a" with a Greek "lambda".
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05/06/2001 4:03 PM
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you the type of person who goes into convulsions after poking a lump of Jello and watching it dance?
Jell-O doesn't wriggle, it jiggles! And I don't convulse -- well maybe just a few lady-like giggles!
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#27666
05/06/2001 10:18 PM
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Jell-O doesn't wriggle, it jiggles! And I don't convulse -- well maybe just a few lady-like giggles!No cachinnation? Only titters? Hmmm.... the latter evokes images of a feather-lined brassiere , which gets us back to what jiggles and doesn't wriggle.  Oh - I see I've made your point! Ah, well, I'l never see Jello in the same light.
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#27667
05/07/2001 7:31 PM
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schusslich
This is interesting, Rapunzel. In my PA Dutch family, schuschlig (pronounced shushlee, 'u' pronounced as in 'put') means 'careless', 'sloppy', or 'lazy'. If one of us did a poor job on a chore (gave it a lick and a promise), my mother would say, "Don't be so schuschlig." The word for antsy, or squirming, was rütchig, pronounced with the u-umlaut sound midway between 'rutchie' and 'richie'. There is also a noun rütchig denoting a smoothed area, such as one on ice or snow, for kids to slide on, like you read about Bob Cratchit using in Camden Town on his way home from the office on Christmas Eve. The verb is rutschen, as in, "Don't rutsch about so!"
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#27668
05/08/2001 3:09 AM
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Dear java: tsuwm has a site with enough weird words to keep you busy for a week. If you look at his profile, you can find the URL to his site. I have no idea how to pick the weirdest one there.
That's what I call kindness to strangers.
Thankswhh for taking the time.
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#27669
05/08/2001 7:50 PM
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Schuschlig and RutchigAs it turns out, I must have misunderstood the word schuschlig when my parents used it. I just asked my mother, and she concurs with your post. She even mentioned the sled track that you talked about. We do use the word "rutsch" to mean squirming around in your seat. I guess I got the two confused. By the way, thanks for saying "this is interesting, Rapunzel" instead of "No, no, NO you've got it all wrong!" or something like that. You're very kind.
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#27670
05/09/2001 1:07 PM
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I just love typing minimum.
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#27671
05/09/2001 6:08 PM
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typing minimum
I like typing committee; besides being easy, the double letters are interesting. This has to be the only word in English with 3 sets of double letters (if not, I'm sure some of you will say so.) This was also on the famous "50 Most Misspelled Words" list.
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05/09/2001 6:15 PM
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Spell "Mississippi" fast several times.
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05/09/2001 6:30 PM
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It's the weird sort of symmetry of minimum that excites me.
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05/09/2001 7:53 PM
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i like perennial and parallel for the double letters in the middle-- and parallax-- the last is a favorite word to whip and and impress someone with... the effect can be commonly seen.. and make for an interesting discussion over drinks..even if they are just water or iced tea.
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#27675
05/10/2001 1:19 AM
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three sets of double letters -
How about bookkeeper?
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#27676
05/10/2001 10:45 AM
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I'll see your parallax and raise you a parallelepiped, which scores well for spelling, pronunciation, and meaning.
I admit I've never actually seen its adjective parallelepipedal but I offer it from my reserve stock anyway.
Then there's:-
Burkism, Cranioclasm, Gloppen, Gnof, Hagseed, Jackpudding, Kecklish, Malashaganay, Metemptosis, Outpassion, Pectoriloquous, Splanchnotomy, Surquidry, Unseven, Vomiturition
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#27677
05/10/2001 12:14 PM
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I'm sorry, I can't help this:
"parallelepipedal"
Banana-fana-bipedal
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#27678
05/10/2001 12:27 PM
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OOO! thank you! I have a use for parallelepipedal I have a a small wooden puzzle that is a striped parallelepipedal knick-knack when assenbled-- and difficult to pick up with out disassembling-- and after guests have tried for 30 minutes or so-- i take it from them, assemble, and put away-- I love 3-D puzzles.
I always just called it a "squished square" shape! (when i really meant cube for square!)
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05/10/2001 12:55 PM
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paralelipipido is Brazilian Portuguese for 'cobblestone.' It's one of my favorite words (for pronouncing) As for typing 'minimum' ... my fingers stumble over each other. Strange symmetry indeed, Faldage.
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05/10/2001 1:04 PM
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m i n i m u m
d u d u d u d
2 2 1 2 2 1 2
It's a 3 against 2 rhythm. Ya get that in Brasilian music?
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#27681
05/10/2001 3:11 PM
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The OED has quite a few bona fide quotes of parallelepipedal, not to mention parallelepipedous and parallelepipedonal. (Oops, I mentioned them.) (I haven't managed to say any of them yet.)
The word minimum, or ones very like it, is why we have dots over i's. In Gothic script it's a sequence of fifteen effectively identical strokes.
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05/10/2001 3:42 PM
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I gotta say, unseven is incalculably eldritch... To render other than seven; to make to be no longer
seven. [Obs. & R.] ``To unseven the sacraments of the church of Rome.'' --Fuller. [dictionary.com] this one's going into the wwftd queue with a bullet
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#27683
05/10/2001 4:14 PM
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The word minimum, or ones very like it, is why we have dots over i's. In Gothic script it's a sequence of fifteen effectively identical strokes.
In Italian cursive writing, the m's are often written as w's and the n's are often written as u's. (They make the round part into a point.) So you need to have some inkling of the word you're reading. Gets confusing when there are i's and t's nearby, like in my dad's name, Antonio. It looks like Autouio. Weird, eh?
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#27684
05/11/2001 8:47 AM
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Gets confusing when there are i's and t's nearby, like in my dad's name, Antonio. It looks like Autouio. Weird, eh?Weird? Bean, it's positively gothic!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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05/11/2001 8:42 PM
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Faldage analogizes: It's a 3 against 2 rhythm. Ya get that in Brasilian music?
Sim, but I'd only give it about a 6. You can't dance to it.
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#27686
05/13/2001 1:59 AM
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tsuwm wrote: this one's going into the wwftd queue with a bullet
sorry...what's wwftd?
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#27687
05/13/2001 4:24 AM
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sorry...what's wwftd?
Worthless Word For The Day and well worth subscribing to.
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05/13/2001 3:30 PM
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Sounds like a waltz to me!
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05/14/2001 1:48 PM
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The noted Mac flatliner, AnnaS whines: You can't dance to it.
Yeahbut®, kin ya unnerstan the words?
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05/14/2001 8:19 PM
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Musick: Sounds like a waltz to me!I dunno, for me a waltz has to be 3/4 so's I *can dance to it. Faldage's "minimum" reminds me more of, say, "America" from West Side Story. And my fingers stumble on the syncopation. 
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05/14/2001 8:23 PM
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Faldage: Yeahbut, kin ya unnerstan the words?I *don't whine. I merely harrumph. And yes, I can, with a minimum of effort 
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05/14/2001 10:55 PM
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05/15/2001 1:16 AM
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GAH!!!!!!! You...you...used THAT NON-word!!! OH!!!
How COULD you! I am NOT, and never will be one of those!
But, outrage aside, I had to laugh at the appropriateness of what happened: I still had my window to the parallel universe open, and wwftd showed up there! Fitting retribution, perhaps...
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