# Words that are fun to say **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 16, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600 "2001-08-16T18:32:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![malaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@malaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malaka)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/61 "2001-08-17T15:59:05Z")
Guggenheim ---
**Author:** ![Arwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Arwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwen)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/62 "2001-08-17T16:16:39Z")
**Endoplasmic Reticulum bouillante** (French for “boiling”…it’s been my favorite ever since my high school teacher described it as “like having a party in your mouth!”) **kumquat** and **uvula** are fun, too! **antidisestablishmentarianism** I really enjoy that one 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Arwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwen)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/63 "2001-08-17T16:19:37Z")
oh, and **balalaika** just wounds like it would be fun to play! (hai! hai! hai! hai!) ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/64 "2001-08-17T16:30:21Z")
pulchritude defenestration asinine snarky coniption (sp?) And in the multicultural category; oy agita (heartburn --\> Italian (although maybe only in a Sicilian dialect, since I learned it listening to dad’s family). And along those lines, fungul (sp?) You know, as in, “Bah! Fungul!” (accompanied by rude gesture) babushka ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/65 "2001-08-17T16:39:02Z")
oscillating acetylsalicylic acid Baby - say it over & over & it loses its meaning. Of course, a lot of words do that for me… ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/66 "2001-08-17T17:56:15Z")
Pituitary…Pituitary…Pituitary ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/67 "2001-08-17T18:31:41Z")
mellifluous jejune masticate ---
**Author:** ![Kbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Kbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kbean)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/68 "2001-08-17T18:51:09Z")
Spork (I can’t belive no one else said this!) Quark ---
**Author:** ![anenquiringmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anenquiringmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anenquiringmind)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/69 "2001-08-17T19:21:52Z")
Whisper ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/70 "2001-08-17T19:43:27Z")
\*Italian for butterfly: _ **farfalla** _ Italian for eighty-eight: _ **ottantotto** _ Italian for synthesizer: _ **sintetizzatore** _ Italian for vulva: _ **vulva** _ ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/71 "2001-08-17T19:48:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cosmopolitan \* > **fungul (sp?) You know, as in, “Bah! Fungul!” (accompanied by rude gesture)** This is a dialectal contraction of _va fa un culo_, literally ‘go make an asshole’ (implying ‘bend over, you’re gonna get it up your poop chute’). How rude can you get? I don’t know if there is any way to spell it. Maybe “_vaffa ‘ncul’_.” ---
**Author:** ![psychogumby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@psychogumby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychogumby)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/72 "2001-08-17T22:05:52Z")
malarky sausages bollocks shenanigans shite ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/73 "2001-08-17T22:26:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Slacker \* > Hahhah I actually can pronounce that one. That’s my home state’s state fish 🙂 So can I…in just under two seconds. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/74 "2001-08-20T20:39:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Philster \* > \*\*Ask any non-doper (we’re too smart) how their uvula is hangin’ and they’ll think you are nuts or perverse. \*\* I like to ask girls if they know where their _fovea_ is. Some blush, some look like they want to slap me. It’s the ones who do know that I take interest in. And it’s the one who actually saw that I was trying to have fun at her expense that I’m currently “significant” with! PS - the fovea is the central area of the retina, the high resolution part that you use when you look directly at something. But it sure sounds to a lot of people like it’s somewhere between the legs. ---
**Author:** ![xanadu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c4cdca/32.png) [@xanadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanadu)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/75 "2001-08-21T02:37:47Z")
dipsomaniac inebriate exuberant dim sum tira misu cognac (not only is it fun to say, but it’s fun to drink, too!) ---
**Author:** ![IceQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/34f0e0/32.png) [@IceQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IceQueen)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/76 "2001-08-21T03:42:25Z")
\ heeeelp weeeird \ ---
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/77 "2001-08-21T04:18:58Z")
clackamas quiliute puyallup sequoia ---
**Author:** ![gorewonfla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@gorewonfla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gorewonfla)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/78 "2001-08-21T05:11:44Z")
Ask someone from Massachusetts to say “Saugus” (a town north of Boston) in their thickest accent. It’ll have you rolling on the floor. I’m originally from Taunton (south of Boston, it’s pretty much equidistant from it, Providence, and the Cape. I got out quickly) and that’s a pretty funny name to say in a New England accent. ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/79 "2001-08-21T05:27:29Z")
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**Author:** ![shell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@shell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shell)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/80 "2001-08-21T06:03:14Z")
sphygnonmometer (my very, very favorite) aluminum bituminous calliope dessicate effervescent felonious glial hellacious ichthus jello knead lambaste mirage nubile oblisk preternatural quip rhythm scythe torque ululate vessitude wrangle xenophile yen zeke [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600.md?page=5)