As a mountaineer I enjoy the word "cwm". Sounds like it should nasty but in reality it's just Welsh for cirque.
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How do you pronounce that, is it something like "coom" ?
I can totally get why it would sound gross
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That’s the only word in the (American) English language that uses w as a vowel (I hope British English has a stronger Welsh influence, but I can’t say). If you learned “and sometimes y and w” as part of your vowels, that’s the reason why.
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Scrunched
Longest syllable I can think of, rather ironic
I think 'scrunched' is the longest one I've seen in this post, I can't think of a longer one.
In a similar vein, it feels really wrong that 'abbreviate' is such a long word.
If people pronounce squirrel as one syllable, then I guess squirreled could be as well, but it’s not in my dialect.
Peh
pink
Not the color. The sound of something tiny-yet-structurally-significant snapping under pressure; juuuuust before the most chaotic gosh-damned thing you've ever seen in your life happens. Car accidents, roller coaster failures, towers collapsing (not those ones) - it's pretty much always preceded by a tiny little pink
Squirrel
This is kind of blowing my mind that a word that long is only one syllable
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Boof
poop (or fart); they're such universal words that everybody, kids and adults alike, just understand how gross and funny they are instantly.
I like to yell " HULST ! " whenever i see it, and then point at it. It's dutch for holly
Whenever I see holly my brain says "do it, eat the berry." It's not fair that they're so red and plump
I think my brain's trying to kill me
In commonwealth culture where I come from, "loo" is the slang word for toilet, and it's always funny out of context.
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