Words that are just darn fun to say

Zimbabwe! Just try saying it. It’s like bouncing on a trampoline. Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe…

Also, schwa. It’s so cool. Schwaaaaaaaaa.

Deepthroat.

Chihuahua. Potrzebie. Pindick. Tit. Farquarharson. Walnetto. Bowersox. Blasbalg (German = “bellows”, like in a furnace). Quorn. Cruft. Vladivostok. Mpingo (a kind of African hardwood). Eleëmosynary (charitable). Flange. Recrudescence. Gravlax. Pazuzu (a winged demon of Mesopotamia). Expunge. Spume. Rimsky-Korsakov.

Bustamante. As in, “¡Ay, que bustamante! Es muy rico y suave!”

I like the way Madagascar just trips off the tongue. All those hard consonants and short vowels…wheee!

Kalamazoo!

ACHTUNG!

The Sith Lord of words!

On another message board, someone got a package from germany that had “Achtung!” on the front. We all thought it was so cool to get such a thing. The Germans among us didn’t get why we all thought that it was so awesome and none of us could articulate the sheer coolness of receiving a package with such formidable wording.

opt

why would anyone opt to say choose when they could opt to say opt?

Spoon
Raspberry
Rhubarb
Sphincter
Dicey
Jib and/or Boom

tintinnabulation
sophistry
weed whacker
robinet
cephalapod
zojirushi
trichotillomania
funicular
yobbo
gratuitous
malarkey
vamoose
hoosegow

Don’t knock my smock or I’ll clean your clock.

Cooter

Snicker la-la (thanks to whoever first coined this one!)

Gibber.

cacahuates (peanut). Sounds dirty, doesn’t it?

beagle

**abecedarian
**

there is no better word.

ever.

Zetteln (might be misspelled) It’s German for small slips of paper.

curmudgeon
incorrigible
cheese
kaboodle

I think words with the ‘oi’ or ‘oy’ diphthong are fun to say.
Zoid
Asteroid
toy
soy
Come to think of it Diphthong is fun as well.

kerfuffle!

You must love this individual, then…

Adam

Y’all would love a book that print artist Ben Shahn wrote (for kids, but trust me – it’s great for anyone) back in the '50’s (IIRC). It’s called Ounce Dice Trice.