# The Funny Word Thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 14, 2001, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511 "2001-07-14T21:31:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lady\_Juliet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Juliet)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2001, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/1 "2001-07-14T21:31:05Z")
I don’t know why, but I just realized that “spork” is a really funny word. I know, its a mixture of “spoon” and “fork”, but still…its just damn fun to say. Spork.
Another one is “snuffalufagus” (the thing from Sesame Street). I always loved saying that too.
I bet you guys can come up with more…
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### Author:  [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/2 "2001-07-14T21:51:19Z")
I’ve always thought the word “falafel” was fun to say.
Plus (and I think this may just be me) the words “impala” and “Malibu.”
I especially like Malibu. Mal-i-booooooo.
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### Author:  [@girlwithwings](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/girlwithwings)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2001, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/3 "2001-07-14T21:53:25Z")
I always thought the word “particularly” sounded really funny.
Mirriam-Websters’ online dictionary just got audio, so if you go to [http://www.m-w.com](http://www.m-w.com) you can hear your funny words pronounced by one of two people who had to say all the words in the English dictionary into a microphone. Call me easily amused, but _I_ had fun with it. 🙂 Also call me immature, cause my favourite one is “boobies.” 😃
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### Author:  [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/4 "2001-07-14T21:56:51Z")
**Thesaurus** , since my son went through his dinosaur stage, the word just tickles me. When someone takes it and doesn’t put it back in it’s assigned spot, I say, “Where is Thesaurus Rex?” It used to dissolve him into giggles (and it is a heavy beast) but alas (also a funny word) now the kid just rolls his eyes. Someday he will post that it to a thread titled, Silly or Stupid things your parents say.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2001, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/5 "2001-07-14T22:07:53Z")
Well, my favourite word is also convienently(sp?) fun to say: FLINGE!
(don’t be suprised if it’s not in the dictionary, me and my friend made it up (it means to attach a flange onto something.))
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### Author:  [@KillerFig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KillerFig)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/6 "2001-07-14T22:10:45Z")
Y’know what word I’ve always found really funny?
“Both.”
It doesn’t look that odd, but say it a bunch of times and you’ll see what I mean. God I hate that word.
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### Author:  [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2001, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/7 "2001-07-14T22:21:03Z")
Road. Rooooood. Rowud.
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### Author:  [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/8 "2001-07-14T22:38:58Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by girlwithwings \*
> \*\*Mirriam-Websters’ online dictionary just got audio, so if you go to [http://www.m-w.com](http://www.m-w.com) you can hear your funny words pronounced by one of two people who had to say all the words in the English dictionary into a microphone. \*\*
Yes. Mr. killdare discovered this feature while I was on the phone with my mother. I could hear a strange voice saying “Motherf$#ker” over and over and over, while he howled with laughter.
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### Author:  [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2001, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/9 "2001-07-14T22:50:18Z")
[m-w.com](http://m-w.com) has two sounds for “son of a bitch.” One normal, and the second one is “sumbitch.” Hehe.
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### Author:  [@virtee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/virtee)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/10 "2001-07-14T22:52:00Z")
“elope”
“cantaloupe”
“pungent”
“unguent”
“salve”
…and for **edwino** and **Rasa** …
“omatidia”
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### Author:  [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/11 "2001-07-14T22:59:19Z")
I have one word.
**drapes**
I know I’ve mentioned it before, but God, that word kills me and I don’t know why. Ever tried to go shopping for curtains when you giggle like a schoolgirl every time you say “drapes”? (Heehee.) It’s awful.
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### Author:  [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2001, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/12 "2001-07-15T01:17:30Z")
Wankle Rotary Engine . . .
Especially when spoken with a British accent.
Credit: Monty Python)
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/13 "2001-07-15T01:31:18Z")
**Crunchy** : If you like Malibu so much, have you tried caribou? Sing it like Frank Black from The Pixies. Caribooo-ooo-ooo!
Personally, I’ve always liked sputnik. Sputnik, sputnik, sputnik. I want a wire-haired terrier named Sputnik.
I think this may very well be my most deranged post to date.
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### Author:  [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/14 "2001-07-15T02:51:37Z")
I think **futon** is a funny word. Not only that, but I think it sounds like a bad word too.
“Futon me? Nooooo, futon you!”
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### Author:  [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/15 "2001-07-15T03:03:34Z")
Tansania. Fun to say.
Squash. Funny sounding.
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### Author:  [@Mortish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mortish)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2001, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/16 "2001-07-15T04:58:12Z")
“Pamplemousse”. French for grapefruit.
“Desodorisant”. Missing the accent over the first e. Sorry. That is also french, and means deodorant.
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### Author:  [@Mortish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mortish)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2001, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/17 "2001-07-15T04:59:14Z")
“Pamplemousse”. French for grapefruit.
“Desodorisant”. Missing the accent over the first e. Sorry. This is also french, and means deodorant.
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### Author:  [@Mortish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mortish)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/18 "2001-07-15T05:00:38Z")
My first double-post. Don’t I feel like a fool. 🙂
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### Author:  [@dorkbro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkbro)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2001, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/19 "2001-07-15T05:21:28Z")
I’ve been found of heteroscedasticity (an important concept in inferential statistics) since hearing it. It’s a big long word, that I can never spell correctly unless I look it up (I always want to spell it …os **k** ed… instead of using the letter “c”), but for all of that rolls off the tongue surprisingly easily.
Unfortunately, this one doesn’t make the online Webster’s.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2001, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-funny-word-thread/72511/20 "2001-07-15T05:27:44Z")
Smock!
Smock Smock Smock Smock Smock
Don’t knock my smock or I’ll clean your clock!
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