# Words that just sound funny.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 12, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572 "2012-02-12T01:31:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/1 "2012-02-12T01:31:44Z")
Recompense is such an odd word, as is cacophany.
Without tit it would be tilate.
Got any?
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/2 "2012-02-12T21:15:03Z")
Gazebo.
I can’t explain why it sounds funny to me, it just does.
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### Author:  [@ballardfam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ballardfam)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/3 "2012-02-12T21:23:37Z")
Condiments. I have a bad habit of pronouncing it “Where are the condom…ents”. I don’t know why, just have a little hesitation there.
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/4 "2012-02-12T21:24:52Z")
_Peculiar_-it sounds like what it means.
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### Author:  [@Jilaad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jilaad)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/5 "2012-02-12T21:44:56Z")
Breakfast
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### Author:  [@florez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/florez)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/6 "2012-02-12T21:52:48Z")
cavalcade. When I heard that word coming out of my mouth to describe something, I had to stop and chuckle.
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/7 "2012-02-12T23:13:07Z")
When I was a kid and the country existed I thought Czechoslovakia sounded funny.
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### Author:  [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/8 "2012-02-12T23:19:42Z")
My favorites are lugubrious and autochthonous.
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### Author:  [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/9 "2012-02-12T23:42:08Z")
calliope, carillon, micturation, eponymous, prostheses
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### Author:  [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/10 "2012-02-12T23:46:45Z")
Trousers
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### Author:  [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/11 "2012-02-12T23:51:44Z")
Dongle.
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### Author:  [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/12 "2012-02-12T23:54:02Z")
Gubernatorial
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/13 "2012-02-12T23:57:37Z")
“Thrombosis.” The word makes me think of a short, fat clown playing a trombone.
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### Author:  [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/14 "2012-02-13T00:20:24Z")
Polyp. I like the sound of it, but never really have occasion to say it.
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/15 "2012-02-13T00:22:34Z")
The word “barn”, if you repeat it a few times, roll the “r” around your mouth a bit, and think about it too much, starts to sound really weird…
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### Author:  [@figure9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/figure9)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/16 "2012-02-13T02:55:40Z")
Moot. Makes me think of a cow with a lisp.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2012, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/17 "2012-02-13T03:22:47Z")
Croup and mumps. They sound like laugh riots! I am guessing they are not.
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### Author:  [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/18 "2012-02-13T03:27:46Z")
> [@ballardfam](#):
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> Condiments. I have a bad habit of pronouncing it “Where are the condom…ents”. I don’t know why, just have a little hesitation there.
How about condom mints?
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/19 "2012-02-13T03:58:01Z")
Brouhaha.
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### Author:  [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/20 "2012-02-13T04:36:12Z")
purple and if matched with trousers and said in a pommy accent
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