# Words (and expressions) that look or sound funny...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 14, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-expressions-that-look-or-sound-funny/532441 "2010-03-14T14:53:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-expressions-that-look-or-sound-funny/532441/61 "2010-03-19T22:35:24Z")

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Macabre. And god help me if I ever try to order capicola at the Italian deli.

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**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-expressions-that-look-or-sound-funny/532441/62 "2010-03-20T02:18:39Z")

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I was talking to my brother about it, but the word

**YOU**

looks weird. It doesn’t sound like it looks. I looks odd. I’ve seen the word a million times in my life, but just today realized how odd the word is.

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-expressions-that-look-or-sound-funny/532441/63 "2010-03-20T03:07:57Z")

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> A friend was wondering what word his uncle (or some other relative) was trying to say when he uttered po-du-shay. Any ideas?

FWIW, I thought portico when I first read this.

Mine is the word ‘indicted’. When reading it, I always think “indick…indited”.

I have the same trouble with infrared.

The other day, I heard someone pronounce ‘tarantula’ tar-an-TOO-la.

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**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-expressions-that-look-or-sound-funny/532441/64 "2010-03-20T03:16:58Z")

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Yo, howz my homie doin…  
They was some wicked good clams ma…  
Going down to Joordan Maarsh to get some jewry…

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**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-and-expressions-that-look-or-sound-funny/532441/65 "2010-03-20T09:42:11Z")

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> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#):
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> Meanwhile, in literature, every **noun then** someone would r’neej on a promise or something.

That’s deliberate, right?

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