# Kerfuffle or kerfluffle?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerfuffle-or-kerfluffle/307654
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 9, 2005, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerfuffle-or-kerfluffle/307654 "2005-06-09T21:50:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerfuffle-or-kerfluffle/307654/21 "2005-06-10T14:58:12Z")

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> [@Sattua](#):
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> the OED says it’s kerfuffle, but it’s wrong.

Yeah.

What you said.  
😛

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### Author: ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerfuffle-or-kerfluffle/307654/22 "2005-06-10T15:01:59Z")

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> [@Queen Tonya](#):
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> Got room in that corner, **Sattua**?

Eh, I’ll join you. Kerfluffle sounds better.

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### Author: ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerfuffle-or-kerfluffle/307654/23 "2005-06-10T17:01:17Z")

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Definitely “kerfuffle.”

Get the “l” out of here! 🙂

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### Author: ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2005, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerfuffle-or-kerfluffle/307654/24 "2005-06-11T07:53:53Z")

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I knew it as kerf **l** uffle.

And since it might be a regional thing, I was raised in California (i.e. on the opposite side from that facing Oxford where the OED was compiled.)

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### Author: ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2005, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerfuffle-or-kerfluffle/307654/25 "2005-06-11T08:19:02Z")

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I’m a born and raised Californian and I say kerfuffle. So I don’t think it’s regional.

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### Author: ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2005, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerfuffle-or-kerfluffle/307654/26 "2005-06-11T12:43:13Z")

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No, ten years in Colorado don’t count. :dubious:

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### Author: ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerfuffle-or-kerfluffle/307654/27 "2005-06-11T21:47:19Z")

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It was only seven! Ok, almost 8.

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