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Words that are fun to say

Willets Point
Mar 20 2006 08:22 PM

dragoons

wicker

spatula

cooby
Mar 20 2006 08:28 PM

aluminum

wanker

bugger off

Matt Murdock, Esq.
Mar 20 2006 08:30 PM

flugelhorn
ambrosia
bloomers

ScarletKnight41
Mar 20 2006 08:31 PM

Albuquerque

Yancy Street Gang
Mar 20 2006 08:37 PM

phlegm

metirish
Mar 20 2006 08:40 PM

Bollox
Eegit
Debauchery
Lumpsucker

MFS62
Mar 20 2006 08:45 PM

Metabolism

Rockin' Doc
Mar 20 2006 09:46 PM
Words that may not be fun to say, but I enjoy hearing them.

Spring training.

Opening day.

Play ball!

Mets win!

Elster88
Mar 20 2006 09:50 PM

Aniston

soupcan
Mar 20 2006 10:18 PM

Ma-nure

Johnny Dickshot
Mar 20 2006 10:45 PM

wankel rotary engine

vibraphone

Edgy DC
Mar 20 2006 10:48 PM

]Lumpsucker


You get to say this one oft'?

Oft'

Hale and hearty fellow

Morrow

Cromulent

cooby
Mar 20 2006 10:50 PM

stinky

Willets Point
Mar 20 2006 10:51 PM

pusillanimous

metirish
Mar 20 2006 10:54 PM

]Quote:
Lumpsucker


You get to say this one oft'?


nope, just now I did though...:)

Willets Point
Mar 20 2006 10:57 PM

ruckus

KC
Mar 20 2006 10:58 PM

superfluous

More than is needed or wanted.

Thesaurus: overflowing, redundant, inordinate, needless

Johnny Dickshot
Mar 20 2006 11:10 PM

Ice

KC
Mar 20 2006 11:20 PM

circuitous

Centerfield
Mar 20 2006 11:45 PM

discombobulated

Edgy DC
Mar 21 2006 09:06 AM

Peonies.

Castilleja.

Shigetoshi Hasegawa.

Bay of Fundy.

sharpie
Mar 21 2006 09:14 AM

Stevedore

RealityChuck
Mar 21 2006 09:27 AM

globulin

Elster88
Mar 21 2006 09:28 AM

soupcan wrote:
Ma-nure


It's Ma, which is good. And newer, which is good.

Willets Point
Mar 21 2006 10:10 AM

damskippy

ratfuck

cooby
Mar 21 2006 10:11 AM

yippy skippy is good too

Johnny Dickshot
Mar 21 2006 10:14 AM

Tits

HahnSolo
Mar 21 2006 10:32 AM

Goretex

seawolf17
Mar 21 2006 10:40 AM

brackish

lugubrious

puppy

SwitchHitter
Mar 21 2006 11:29 AM

uvula

prestidigitation

murmur


Rhiannon Rose

Willets Point
Mar 21 2006 12:01 PM

Rocco Baldelli

MFS62
Mar 22 2006 10:14 AM

cretin

Later

Willets Point
Mar 29 2006 10:39 AM

Bugger all

HahnSolo
Mar 29 2006 10:47 AM

Prestidigitation

DocTee
Mar 30 2006 12:24 PM

fallacious

Farmer Ted
Mar 30 2006 05:23 PM

From Arrested Development...

Bob Loblaw

Willets Point
Mar 30 2006 11:06 PM

cooby

cooby
Apr 10 2006 01:58 PM

pickle. It's fun to hear, too

martin
Apr 10 2006 02:23 PM

filibuster

papoose

TheOldMole
Apr 10 2006 05:29 PM

Ojibwa
Ogalala
Sac and Fox

*62
Apr 10 2006 08:27 PM

noodle

Willets Point
Apr 11 2006 04:55 PM

Oogey cha cha.

TheOldMole
Apr 11 2006 07:44 PM

Great googa mooga

Giant Squidlike Creature
May 18 2006 04:16 PM

Bulbous Bouffant

cooby
May 18 2006 06:44 PM

fiddlesticks

MFS62
May 18 2006 08:39 PM

Jose Lima has been released.

(I can dream, can't I?)

Sandgnat
May 19 2006 11:04 AM

Onomatopoeia

Butrous Butrous Ghali (fun to say and sing)

Centerfield
May 19 2006 11:06 AM

Hail!

soupcan
May 19 2006 11:47 AM

HAIL!

Willets Point
May 19 2006 11:52 AM

Hail!

It is fun to say.

Edgy DC
May 19 2006 01:33 PM

Know what's fun to say? "Wassail."

I can say that all day.

Willets Point
May 19 2006 01:51 PM

Do you say it like those guys in the Budweiser commercial? (I wonder if those marketing geniuses ever thought of a Christmas variation to their "Wazzup" campaign).

Another word:

sinews

ScarletKnight41
May 19 2006 02:25 PM

Hail!

OlerudOwned
May 19 2006 04:20 PM

Gubernatorial

(Hail!)

Vic Sage
May 19 2006 04:58 PM

"pu pu platter"

its not a word, but it is the name of a particular menu item.
does that count?

Willets Point
May 19 2006 05:00 PM

The precedent for phrases has already been set and there's no thread police patrolling here anyhow.

Real restaurant in Cambridge: Pu Pu Hot Pot.

Willets Point
May 19 2006 05:22 PM

Kibosh

(What is a kibosh anyway - even the OED doesn't know?).

TheOldMole
May 19 2006 06:42 PM

Old mole

Gonif

DocTee
May 19 2006 10:02 PM

Cellar Door

cooby
May 19 2006 10:08 PM

Djibouti?

DocTee
May 19 2006 10:13 PM

]Djibouti?


I hardly know ya!


HAIL!!

cooby
May 19 2006 10:24 PM

Doc Tee, your mind obviously works just like mine, lol...

Willets Point
May 20 2006 12:29 AM

DocTee wrote:
Cellar Door


The most beautiful combination of English words.

DocTee
May 20 2006 09:58 AM

]DocTee wrote:
Cellar Door


The most beautiful combination of English words.


And the fact that they describe something that is generally not beautiful makes them, well, even more beautiful.

DocTee
May 20 2006 10:13 AM

Quote:
DocTee wrote:
Cellar Door


The most beautiful combination of English words.

Dorothy Parker disagrees. (She said the most beautiful combo in English was "cheque enclosed")!!

Elster88
Jun 09 2006 11:47 AM

albeit

Edgy DC
Jun 09 2006 11:55 AM

Cleave.

It's violent and all, but nothing beats a fay knight in an old movie threating to "cleave you atwain."

MFS62
Jun 09 2006 12:05 PM

Bristopherdon. (That may not be the way its spelled, but its the way its pronounced)

No, it is not the name of an extinct reptile.
It is an adjective.
It was used in the old days of office systems and means bi-directional. That is the way the print head moved on word processing impact printers.

Later

seawolf17
Jun 09 2006 12:16 PM

MFS62 wrote:
Bristopherdon. (That may not be the way its spelled, but its the way its pronounced)

No, it is not the name of an extinct reptile.
It is an adjective.
It was used in the old days of office systems and means bi-directional. That is the way the print head moved on word processing impact printers.

Later

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon]Boustrophedon[/url]. Good spelling bee word.

MFS62
Jun 09 2006 12:25 PM

Thanks, Wolf. I always wondered how to spell that sucker.

LAter

seawolf17
Jun 09 2006 12:59 PM

You're welcome.

-Seawolf
CPF Resident Spelling Dork

Elster88
Jun 15 2006 10:31 PM

conundrum

Edgy DC
Jun 15 2006 10:43 PM

"Uribe"

"Corncrakes" (A lot of bird names are fun to say, like "Tanagers" and "Towhees.")

You know what's fun to say? "Eight-game win streak."

Willets Point
Jun 16 2006 01:30 PM

Ivoirian - apparently what you call people from Côte d'Ivoire.

Elster88
Jul 27 2006 01:00 PM

Constantinople

ScarletKnight41
Jul 27 2006 01:07 PM

And Timbuktu!

cooby
Aug 09 2006 09:28 AM

skippage

Johnny Dickshot
Aug 09 2006 09:36 AM

mellophone

ScarletKnight41
Aug 10 2006 11:21 AM

Theremin

Elster88
Aug 10 2006 11:57 AM

Willets Point wrote:
="DocTee"]Cellar Door


The most beautiful combination of English words.


Is there any particular reason why?

ScarletKnight41
Aug 10 2006 11:59 AM

I don't know why, but my mother always said that studies identified Cellar Door as the most melodious words in the English language. So that goes back a ways.

Willets Point
Sep 11 2006 03:32 PM

juggernaut

bitch

Edgy DC
Sep 11 2006 03:33 PM

Pillage.

Humber

stoudt

cooby
Sep 11 2006 03:40 PM

Sniffy

Valadius
Sep 11 2006 04:09 PM

Willets Point wrote:
juggernaut

bitch


Goddamn right.

Willets Point
Sep 11 2006 05:09 PM

Valadius wrote:
="Willets Point"]juggernaut

bitch


Goddamn right.


Which is also fun to say.

old original jb
Sep 11 2006 11:10 PM

Surly.
Behooves.
Duvet.
Poopie! (but please, not ON the duvet).

Edgy DC
Sep 11 2006 11:20 PM

Funiculi, funicila.

cooby
Sep 14 2006 09:43 AM

he who?

Edgy DC
Sep 14 2006 10:34 AM

"They Walked Away From It"

Willets Point
Sep 14 2006 10:54 AM

(This is my favorite thread of all time)

MFS62
Sep 14 2006 11:10 AM

Willets Point wrote:
(This is my favorite thread of all time)


Did you have fun saying those words?

Later

SwitchHitter
Sep 14 2006 11:23 AM

Babylon


rivulet

MFS62
Sep 14 2006 01:56 PM

Malomar

Later

ScarletKnight41
Sep 14 2006 02:25 PM

Benign

cooby
Sep 14 2006 02:26 PM

It's 5 o'clock

ScarletKnight41
Sep 14 2006 02:42 PM

Happy Hour


Tequila

Willets Point
Oct 06 2006 04:27 PM

Cornelius.

metirish
Oct 06 2006 04:36 PM

I expected to see Bump here.

Bump

Willets Point
Oct 07 2006 11:58 PM

Sweep.

Valadius
Oct 08 2006 12:08 AM

Damn you Willets, you beat me to it.

Nymr83
Oct 08 2006 12:17 AM

"theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee yankees lose"

see? that was fun.

Willets Point
Oct 15 2006 10:43 PM

Shitpuddles


Bildungsroman
-- Fun word to say because it's so funny looking, but also because it has "dung" in it.


Dung

metirish
Oct 15 2006 11:03 PM

eegit
bollox
wanker

Valadius
Oct 16 2006 05:19 PM

Curmudgeon.

Willets Point
Oct 16 2006 05:23 PM

metirish wrote:
eegit
bollox
wanker


metirish enjoyed saying two of these words back when the thread started but apparently no longer enjoys saying lumpsucker or debauchery as much.

ScarletKnight41
Oct 30 2006 12:31 PM

Penumbra

cooby
Oct 31 2006 11:25 AM

SNIKT

THWIP

Willets Point
Oct 31 2006 11:27 AM

mischief

Giant Squidlike Creature
Nov 29 2006 02:00 AM

pterodactyl

madness

cooby
Nov 29 2006 02:13 PM

platypus

metsmarathon
Nov 29 2006 04:07 PM

kumquat

patona314
Nov 29 2006 04:09 PM

great googley moogley

metsmarathon
Nov 29 2006 05:05 PM

TheOldMole wrote:
Great googa mooga


mumbo jumbo

Edgy DC
Nov 30 2006 09:16 AM

Bobblehead.

cooby
Nov 30 2006 09:19 AM

Bubblebutt

Willets Point
Jan 10 2007 01:25 PM

gigglesnort

goo gone

soupcan
Jan 10 2007 03:27 PM

Joumana Kidd

Edgy DC
Jan 16 2007 03:09 PM

Mook.

Willets Point
Feb 08 2007 03:40 PM

patois

Edgy DC
Feb 08 2007 03:49 PM

Paul Rusesabagina.