What the heck?! I thought I was the only one who had that problem! I thought I was some sort of freak of nature because of it. Now I’m just a freak of nature who’s not alone. heh heh. Good question though. hmm, I’ll get back to you on it.
Knurd (different spelling) is a Terry Pratchett word for the exact opposite state to alcoholic intoxication - not only sober, but completely stripped of all the comfortable illusions in which the average person lives their life.
I think there needs to be a word for the embarassing situation where you misspell a word, erase it, misspell it the same way again, erase it, misspell it again… actually, I should make it more general… doing anything stupid, undoing it, then redoing it the exact same way.
Also, when you’re with friends and you’re singing, what’s the word for when you drop the volume of your voice bacause you’ve forgotten the words, and sing gibberish hoping nobody will notice? [sub]Or is this just something that happens to me?[/sub] It’s not quite mumbling, it’s not quite humming… so what is it?
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned Douglas Adams’The Meaning of Liff. The concept is simple: a lot of things need words for them, and a lot of words are wasted as placenames. The late, great DA simply matched them up as he saw best. Well worth a click.
We need a word for the expression the deli clerk makes when I spank the big hams at Safeway. She’s so cute, but it’s an expression like I’ve never seen before. Every time. It’s uncanny.
Urethra - noun (pl -thras or -thrae) {from Greek ourethra or French ourein - to urinate} (1634): the canal that in most mammals carries off the urine from the bladder and in the male serves also as a genital duct.
