# Words that are fun to say

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 25, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997 "2004-09-25T03:33:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji_Kitakyusho)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/81 "2004-09-26T20:23:27Z")

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bludgeon

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**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/82 "2004-09-27T00:32:06Z")

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Adenoid

Anechoic

Bombastic

Cannonical

Conniption

Contrapuntal

Indigenous

Lancastershire (because it’s not pronounced even close to how it’s spelled)

Plenum

Uvula  
My SO contributes: “discombobulated”

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**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/83 "2004-09-27T00:33:30Z")

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Shuriken

“No you can’t!”

“Shuriken!”

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**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/84 "2004-09-27T01:30:45Z")

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I remember seeing this list on Letterman, but I didn’t realize it was 10 years ago. I found it archived [here](http://www.echonyc.com/~barnhart/daveware/top-ten-1994).  
—\> January 5, 1994 \<—  
Top Ten Words That Sound Great When Spoken By James Earl Jones

**As read by James Earl Jones himself!**

1. Mellifluous
2. Verisimilitude
3. Guppy
4. Stolichnaya
5. Boutros-Boutros Ghali
6. Neo-Synephrine
7. Pinhead
8. Mujibur and Sirajul
9. Heebie-Jeebies
10. Oprah

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/85 "2004-09-27T01:59:11Z")

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tintinabulation

spiffy

and I’m sorry, but fuck is just too short, too abrupt - it’s like the sound of chucking a rock at a rusty corrugated iron wall - you have to add it to something, like

fuckitall

that’s the sound of release, there: fuckitall

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/86 "2004-09-27T02:03:32Z")

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Ganglion, as in cysts.

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**Author:** ![PhalPhoto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PhalPhoto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhalPhoto)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/87 "2004-09-27T02:39:31Z")

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Mojave

_Bacillus subtilus_

Aurora borealis

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