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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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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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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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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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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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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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I just love typing minimum.
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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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Spell "Mississippi" fast several times.
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It's the weird sort of symmetry of minimum that excites me.
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