Some Of My Favorite English Wordes

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   chigau (棒や石)

   October 20, 2012 at 7:27 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   bookkeeper

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   michaeld

   October 20, 2012 at 7:56 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Vorpal

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   Crip Dyke, MQ, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden

   October 20, 2012 at 8:08 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Linoleum

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   chigau (棒や石)

   October 20, 2012 at 8:47 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   aluminum and aluminium
   (as a tag-team)

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   dlactin

   October 20, 2012 at 8:53 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Unionized or unionized.

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   chigau (棒や石)

   October 20, 2012 at 8:58 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   psychic and physics

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   Pali

   October 21, 2012 at 2:06 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Negligible.

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   SteveV

   October 21, 2012 at 2:27 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Grommet

   Equality

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   blindrobin

   October 21, 2012 at 3:31 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   All those Anglo-Saxon ones not deemed suitable for polite conversation along with obscure ones best used to create confusion in conversations with attending dilettantes too self-conscious to ask for clarification of meaning as they just nod along.
   Also anything onomatopoeic.

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    skeptifem

    October 21, 2012 at 4:09 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    unit

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    sailor1031

    October 21, 2012 at 4:34 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Pusillanimous. Whenever I hear the word ‘congress’ this word comes instantly to mind.

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    xmnr

    October 21, 2012 at 5:07 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Cellar door

    Caribou (a very woody word)

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    Rodney Nelson

    October 21, 2012 at 5:24 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Antepenultimate.

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    Lithified Detritus

    October 21, 2012 at 6:39 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Defenestrate.

    What we ought to do to those pusillanimous dickes in Congress.

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    P. Tirebiter

    October 21, 2012 at 6:41 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    roof rack. sorry, I meant roofrack.
    Or baconnaise.

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    Pyra

    October 21, 2012 at 7:13 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Orangutan.

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    arrzey

    October 21, 2012 at 10:52 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Orangutan is Malaysian:
    Orang = Man
    Hutan = Forest

    Oranghutan = man of the forest.

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    blindrobin

    October 21, 2012 at 11:58 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Noo, noo arrzey nae need fa’ pedantry, maist o’ they ither wairds urnae praiper Anglish as weel.

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    trazan

    October 21, 2012 at 2:53 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Gorn is woody.

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    skeptifem

    October 22, 2012 at 3:06 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Defenestrate.

    YES. completely. This word needs to be used more.

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    chigau (棒や石)

    October 22, 2012 at 6:39 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    ecdysiast

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    Isis the Scientist

    October 22, 2012 at 1:43 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Indignant
    Pout

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    Beaker

    October 22, 2012 at 1:56 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    pus

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    eeke

    October 23, 2012 at 11:05 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Vellum. The word “plexus” also has an appeal.

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    gingerest

    October 23, 2012 at 3:30 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Fuckknuckle. Banana. Stamp.