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What are some words that seem weird when you think about them a lot
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futz
futz
Highwayman35
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Roads
Limit
Limit
Ro-wads
Canal. Ever since a friend in college always pronounced Canal Street as See Anal Street, I cannot see that word without thinking of it having the word anal in it.
Rushie
Poster
Why do you park in a driveway but drive on a parkway???
TJHall1
Legendary
Wait you say it "Tha" instead of "The"The.
It rhymes with duh, yet it is such an important and oft used word in our language.
Peach-head
Poster
Chigger
The phonetic spelling of "W", duh bow U.
Never could wrap my heard around a 3 syllable letter.
Never could wrap my heard around a 3 syllable letter.
Aggie
Seminole88
Poster
Weirdly awesome how you can use the word "fuck" in any context
Been my go to vocabulary for decades.
The spelling of moist bothers me
Knob
PleasureMoose
Legendary
Caulk
Sphincter
non-profit
I like to call the moist towels, moisties
Nayat
Elite
And why isn't it called "double V" instead?
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Nayat
Elite
But it comes after V... S.T.U.V.VV.X.Z. Its not S.T.U.V.UU.X.Y.Z.
Nayat
Elite
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•Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
"The place with the longest single word is; Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu."
"At 85 letters, this Māori name for a hill in New Zealand is often truncated to; Taumata."
Naming random hills in NZ was a significant endeavor in this nations history.
It was a long and arduous process overall, butt eventually they succeeded—with the help of Tama-the spastic monkey, mashing a keyboard.
"At 85 letters, this Māori name for a hill in New Zealand is often truncated to; Taumata."
Naming random hills in NZ was a significant endeavor in this nations history.
It was a long and arduous process overall, butt eventually they succeeded—with the help of Tama-the spastic monkey, mashing a keyboard.
In French, it is pronounced dooblah-vay.
I've always been fascinated how the English language has limited actual mouth movements. We use "voiced" and "unvoiced" sounds to make our speech more efficient. Examples:
-J is the same as Ch. First is voiced, second not
-D is the same as T
-B and P
-Z and S
-G and K
-Th is voiced at the beginning of a word and unvoiced at the end. Thumb vs teeth
-J is the same as Ch. First is voiced, second not
-D is the same as T
-B and P
-Z and S
-G and K
-Th is voiced at the beginning of a word and unvoiced at the end. Thumb vs teeth
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