# Words that are funny if you say them over and over and over
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 12, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869 "2009-01-12T03:17:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Influential\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Influential_Panda)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/1 "2009-01-12T03:17:32Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/2 "2009-01-12T03:36:35Z")
Slippage is the king of words like this. Wasps is the queen.
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/3 "2009-01-12T03:37:10Z")
Tartlet. Tartlet. Tartlet.
The word has lost all meaning.
Joe
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### Author:  [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/4 "2009-01-12T03:42:06Z")
Smock!
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### Author:  [@Abraca\_Deborah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abraca_Deborah)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/5 "2009-01-12T03:44:40Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/6 "2009-01-12T04:43:04Z")
“College Ecology”
The keyboarding teacher at my school had to stop using the lesson that used that phrase.
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### Author:  [@bink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bink)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/7 "2009-01-12T04:44:24Z")
Wipe.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/8 "2009-01-12T05:03:07Z")
Because.
It quickly becomes ‘Cosby’.
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### Author:  [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/9 "2009-01-12T05:06:35Z")
Speed limit.
Limit. Limit. Limit. Limit.
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### Author:  [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/10 "2009-01-12T13:25:57Z")
Wigwam.
It’s so much fun! 😃
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### Author:  [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/11 "2009-01-12T13:28:18Z")
Carburettor
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/12 "2009-01-12T13:50:35Z")
_Nelson Muntz voice_: HA-ha!
See how many times you can say that before cracking up.
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### Author:  [@Marienee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marienee)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/13 "2009-01-12T14:22:58Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/14 "2009-01-12T15:12:10Z")
Phenomenon
(Doo-doo doo-doo-doo! Phenomenon! Doo doo-doo doo!)
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/15 "2009-01-12T16:04:23Z")
Hippocampus.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/16 "2009-01-12T16:21:03Z")
squiggle
umlaut
pebble
jingle
strawberry
brouhaha
And I’m with **Alpine** on “smock.” Weird.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/17 "2009-01-12T16:32:12Z")
bundle
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/18 "2009-01-12T16:38:18Z")
Badger.
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### Author:  [@prodicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/prodicus)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/19 "2009-01-12T16:40:26Z")
pants
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### Author:  [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-funny-if-you-say-them-over-and-over-and-over/480869/20 "2009-01-12T16:43:04Z")
W.
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