# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![okielady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/fbc32d/32.png) [@okielady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okielady)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/81 "2001-08-21T13:16:20Z")
Epiphany And one of my favorite dopers, Lolagranola ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/82 "2001-08-21T15:02:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by shell \* > **torque** Why, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/83 "2001-08-21T17:43:26Z")
Duct-tape. Mope. Knot. ---
**Author:** ![okielady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/fbc32d/32.png) [@okielady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okielady)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/84 "2001-08-21T22:27:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Philster \* > \*\*Oh, let me add one more: Uvula. Ask any non-doper (we’re too smart) how their uvula is hangin’ and they’ll think you are nuts or perverse. \*\* That’s a good word to get people with. My oldest sister asked me one time what the name of that little thingy hanging down in the back of the mouth is (she was reading a trivia question, I believe.) When I told her, she freaked out and thought I was nuts for saying that word in front of mom. I explained it further after mom and I were done laughing enough that we could talk. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/85 "2001-08-21T22:31:24Z")
ameliorate ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/86 "2001-08-22T04:50:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by shell \* > knead Thanks, **shell**! ---
**Author:** ![darkgarden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@darkgarden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darkgarden)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/87 "2001-08-22T12:01:30Z")
copacetic eclectic bucolic idiotic kinetic enchilada Montauk guacamole plate tectonics empirical narf! disenfranchise nitrous oxide knight-errantry fascist Branch Dividian Pasquale linear foo ---
**Author:** ![darkgarden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@darkgarden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darkgarden)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/88 "2001-08-22T12:07:07Z")
And I’ve always try to slip the words ‘Anheuser-Busch’ into casual conversation. I think that’s one of the prettiest name combinations in existence. Another is Ingersoll-Rand, but that one’s prettier to look at than to say… ---
**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 22, 2001, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/89 "2001-08-22T12:08:56Z")
Ouagadougou Popocatépetl Zonguldak ---
**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 23, 2001, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/90 "2001-08-23T16:45:55Z")
Ouagadougou Popocatépetl Zonguldak ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600/91 "2001-08-23T17:26:38Z")
I love to use any word that usually only exists in the negative, e.g. great hair day= hair is “ruly”. Feeling fully part of the group=“franchised.” Got everything together?= You’re “combobulated” etc etc. also— meshuggah Yonkers obstreporous I 2nd my fave- fiduciary persnickety parsimonious fustilarian strumpet [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/76600.md?page=4)