Sometimes I’ll pick up on an acoustic quirk of a certain word and end up repeating it to myself fifteen or twenty times, at which point it loses all meaning and makes me giggle. A few notable examples:
Ambulance
Beige
Doug
Slippage is the king of words like this. Wasps is the queen.
Tartlet. Tartlet. Tartlet.
The word has lost all meaning.
Joe
Smock!
We have a grocery store chain called Loblaw’s.
I love to say it over and over, and faster and faster. Pretty soon it becomes “Blah Blah’s”
So now we call the store “Blah Blah’s”
Another personal favourite: oscillopsia
“College Ecology”
The keyboarding teacher at my school had to stop using the lesson that used that phrase.
Wipe.
Because.
It quickly becomes ‘Cosby’.
Speed limit.
Limit. Limit. Limit. Limit.
Wigwam.
It’s so much fun!
Carburettor
Nelson Muntz voice: HA-ha!
See how many times you can say that before cracking up.
Not so much spoken as written: Freer.
There ought to be another e in there, but there isn’t. And yet, it just seems like too many vowels.
Phenomenon
(Doo-doo doo-doo-doo! Phenomenon! Doo doo-doo doo!)
Hippocampus.
squiggle
umlaut
pebble
jingle
strawberry
brouhaha
And I’m with Alpine on “smock.” Weird.
bundle
Badger.
pants
W.