Baker’s Dozen III

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7021

Unusual or uncommon words

  1. Tintinnabulation
  2. Meldrop
  3. Detritus
  4. Dalmatic
  5. Flummery
  6. Philtrum
  7. Penultimate

Next to last.

7022

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

7023

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

7024

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”-

7025

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

7026

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.

7027

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

7028

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.

7029

Words commonly mispronounced

1 Cavalry
2. Edinburgh
3. Coupon

7030

Words commonly mispronounced

  1. Cavalry
  2. Edinburgh
  3. Coupon
  4. Nevada
7031

Words commonly mispronounced

  1. Cavalry
  2. Edinburgh
  3. Coupon
  4. Nevada
  5. Raymond Luxury Yacht
7032

Words commonly mispronounced

  1. Cavalry
  2. Edinburgh
  3. Coupon
  4. Nevada
  5. Raymond Luxury Yacht
  6. library

It’s not liberry, dammit!

7033

Words commonly mispronounced

  1. Cavalry
  2. Edinburgh
  3. Coupon
  4. Nevada
  5. Raymond Luxury Yacht
  6. library
  7. ask

Ugh! It’s not axe!

7034

Words commonly mispronounced

  1. Cavalry
  2. Edinburgh
  3. Coupon
  4. Nevada
  5. Raymond Luxury Yacht
  6. library
  7. ask
  8. Arctic
7035

Words commonly mispronounced

  1. Cavalry
  2. Edinburgh
  3. Coupon
  4. Nevada
  5. Raymond Luxury Yacht
  6. library
  7. ask
  8. Arctic
  9. nuclear
7036

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!

7037

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”-

7038

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.

7039

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.

7040

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”