The End Justifies the Memes
By Mitch Berg
It’s been a while, but I got this one from Red:
Words that always look misspelled to me:
Sergeant, Weird, cemetery
Words I enjoy saying:
buncombe, barrage, scabrous, hamster, bollocks, vacuous, lambaste, donnybrook.
Words I enjoy hearing:
“You were right all along”, “On the house!”,
Abbreviations I dislike:
“nbr” for “number”, “etc”.
Proper nouns I enjoy:
Phuket, Bannockburn, Ouistreham, Zap, Amelie,
Words I associate with happiness:
guitar, vacation, talk show (I know, a phrase. So sue me).
Words I always misspell:
Weird, Vacuum (whaddya mean there’s only one “c”?).
Words I enjoy spelling correctly, every time:
Sphygmomanometer.
Words that, though I love their meaning, I’m too embarrassed to say out loud:
Can’t think of any.
Words I can never remember the meaning of no matter how many times I look them up:
Syllogism, Teleology.
Words that sound like what they mean:
goulash, leprosy, abortion, phlegm, vellum, invincible, velvet.
Words that sound like something other than what they mean:
Enervating. Gets me every time.
What are some of your favorite words?
ethereal, ether, fart, guffaw, chard, talus, scree, chum, warm.
Your least favorite?
Nubbin, Tomkat, Bebop (and Bebopareebop), boogie.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Hawaiian placenames that are hard to pronounce correctly:
Pu’u A’awa, Anaehoomalu, Pu’u Honua O Honaunau (where I got married), Aeiea.
Hawaiaan placenames that sound neat and are fun to say:
Kipuka Ki,Namakani Pai’o
November 21st, 2006 at 1:25 pm
My favorite Hawaiian word from 8th grade
Kaumonawannalaia
November 21st, 2006 at 2:23 pm
I love the name of the mountain in the dentist office fishtank from Finding Nemo:
Mount Waunahakalugie
Word I always mispell: Occasion
one mf my least favorites: crunch
abbreviation I hate: ck for check (however, I am a prodigious user of internet acronyms in writing: TTYL)
word that sounds like what it means: precisely/precision