# Baker’s Dozen III **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 22, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093 "2022-08-22T15:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 352
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7021 "2025-03-13T17:05:32Z")
**Unusual or uncommon words** 1. Tintinnabulation 2. Meldrop 3. Detritus 4. Dalmatic 5. Flummery 6. Philtrum 7. Penultimate Next to last. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7022 "2025-03-13T18:54:56Z")
**Unusual or uncommon words** 1. Tintinnabulation 2. Meldrop 3. Detritus 4. Dalmatic 5. Flummery 6. Philtrum 7. Penultimate 8. Orrery An apparatus for representing the positions, motions, and phases of the planets, satellites, etc., in the solar system ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7023 "2025-03-13T20:07:42Z")
**Unusual or uncommon words** 1. Tintinnabulation 2. Meldrop 3. Detritus 4. Dalmatic 5. Flummery 6. Philtrum 7. Penultimate 8. Orrery 9. Sesquipedalian literally, measuring 1.5 feet; figuratively, polysyllabic or long-winded ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7024 "2025-03-13T21:54:34Z")
**Unusual or uncommon words** 1. Tintinnabulation 2. Meldrop 3. Detritus 4. Dalmatic 5. Flummery 6. Philtrum 7. Penultimate 8. Orrery 9. Sesquipedalian 10. Cruciverbalist Someone who is skilled at creating or solving crossword puzzles _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7025 "2025-03-14T00:06:00Z")
**Unusual or uncommon words** 1. Tintinnabulation 2. Meldrop 3. Detritus 4. Dalmatic 5. Flummery 6. Philtrum 7. Penultimate 8. Orrery 9. Sesquipedalian 10. Cruciverbalist 11. Zyzzyva a genus of South American weevils ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7026 "2025-03-14T00:08:32Z")
**Unusual or uncommon words** 1. Tintinnabulation 2. Meldrop 3. Detritus 4. Dalmatic 5. Flummery 6. Philtrum 7. Penultimate 8. Orrery 9. Sesquipedalian 10. Cruciverbalist 11. Zyzzyva 12. Vuvuzela An ear-piercingly loud South African plastic horn. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7027 "2025-03-14T00:32:55Z")
**Unusual or uncommon words** 1. Tintinnabulation 2. Meldrop 3. Detritus 4. Dalmatic 5. Flummery 6. Philtrum 7. Penultimate 8. Orrery 9. Sesquipedalian 10. Cruciverbalist 11. Zyzzyva 12. Vuvuzela 13. Columbarium A place in, usually, a church, where cremains are deposited and memorialized. Sometimes individually… sometimes a common patch outside. **Words commonly mispronounced** 1 Cavalry ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7028 "2025-03-14T00:47:54Z")
**Words commonly mispronounced** 1 Cavalry 2. Edinbrugh Not sure if a city counts as a word but it is hard to find an American who doesn’t pronouce it Edinbro, Edinborough, Edinburrow or similar. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7029 "2025-03-14T01:05:28Z")
**Words commonly mispronounced** 1 Cavalry 2. Edinburgh 3. Coupon ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7030 "2025-03-14T01:10:09Z")
**Words commonly mispronounced** 1. Cavalry 2. Edinburgh 3. Coupon 4. Nevada ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7031 "2025-03-14T03:06:41Z")
**Words commonly mispronounced** 1. Cavalry 2. Edinburgh 3. Coupon 4. Nevada 5. Raymond Luxury Yacht ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7032 "2025-03-14T03:29:37Z")
**Words commonly mispronounced** 1. Cavalry 2. Edinburgh 3. Coupon 4. Nevada 5. Raymond Luxury Yacht 6. library It’s not liberry, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7033 "2025-03-14T13:46:30Z")
**Words commonly mispronounced** 1. Cavalry 2. Edinburgh 3. Coupon 4. Nevada 5. Raymond Luxury Yacht 6. library 7. ask Ugh! It’s not axe! ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7034 "2025-03-14T14:59:40Z")
**Words commonly mispronounced** 1. Cavalry 2. Edinburgh 3. Coupon 4. Nevada 5. Raymond Luxury Yacht 6. library 7. ask 8. Arctic ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7035 "2025-03-14T15:28:06Z")
**Words commonly mispronounced** 1. Cavalry 2. Edinburgh 3. Coupon 4. Nevada 5. Raymond Luxury Yacht 6. library 7. ask 8. Arctic 9. nuclear ---
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**Words commonly mispronounced** 1. Cavalry 2. Edinburgh 3. Coupon 4. Nevada 5. Raymond Luxury Yacht 6. library 7. ask 8. Arctic 9. nuclear 10. Mischievous Not miss-chee-vee-uss! ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7037 "2025-03-14T17:13:00Z")
**Words commonly mispronounced** 1. Cavalry 2. Edinburgh 3. Coupon 4. Nevada 5. Raymond Luxury Yacht 6. library 7. ask 8. Arctic 9. nuclear 10. Mischievous 11. February and with regards to #3 – are you talking about the western state, or the small town in Iowa near Ames? _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7038 "2025-03-14T17:30:47Z")
Actually, I meant “coupon”, an ad you clip to save money. Pronounced “koo-pon” and mispronounced “key-pon”. Everything else had been capitalized up to then, so I capitalized it. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7039 "2025-03-14T18:31:34Z")
> [@Bicycle\_Bill](#): > > with regards to #3 – are you talking about the western state, or the small town in Iowa near Ames? Are you referring to #4? There are, I believe, a fair number of towns sharing that name across the USA. I’ve been to the town in Missouri, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/7040 "2025-03-15T03:40:33Z")
**Words commonly mispronounced** 1. Cavalry 2. Edinburgh 3. Coupon 4. Nevada 5. Raymond Luxury Yacht 6. library 7. ask 8. Arctic 9. nuclear 10. Mischievous 11. February 12. etcetera As for “Cavalry”, that was the name of my son’s Boy Scout troop, and it drove me crazy to hear the scouts and scoutmaster mispronounce and misspell it as “Calvary” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=351) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=353)