# Uxbridge English Dictionary

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**Created:** [February 27, 2024, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uxbridge-english-dictionary/998158 "2024-02-27T11:43:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uxbridge-english-dictionary/998158/1 "2024-02-27T11:43:03Z")

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The thread on easily confused words is a treasure trove of quirks of the English language; it also reminded me of this radio comedy game, which involves rather more radical confusions, as follows:

Capability: what good matadors have  
Capable: what good matadors try to do  
Inescapable; what Ines was told to do on her first day at matador school  
Convertible: of butchers, to produce steaks  
Digestible: to enjoy a steak

Incompetent: Bad at camping  
Arrow: Where cockneys go to school  
Fearsome: bad at maths.

Carbolic: humorous vehicle accessory, often found on trucks.  
Diabolic: To make an ill-judged attempt at body art  
Shambolic: On closer inspection, a gooseberry.

Any more?

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Creche: a posh road accident

Abominable: a round explosive device

Abundance: the hokey-cakey

In case any explanation needed:

- ‘Arrow: Where cockneys go to school’; Harrow is an English school and cockneys drop their 'h’s
- ‘Abundance: the hokey-cakey’; hokey-cokey is a dance