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I say "bum" and my wife says "boob"

Interested to hear what you think.

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[-] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

As a mountaineer I enjoy the word "cwm". Sounds like it should nasty but in reality it's just Welsh for cirque.

[-] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

How do you pronounce that, is it something like "coom" ?

I can totally get why it would sound gross

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[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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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[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
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[-] DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Berk

(It has a very rude etymology)

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[-] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

This is kind of blowing my mind that a word that long is only one syllable

[-] Redacted@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Always appreciated the levels of drawl it takes to squeeze this into one.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Funny, I drawl it into one syllable, but I read it as two. Didn't understand how it fit the rule.

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[-] weew@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Scrunched

Longest syllable I can think of, rather ironic

[-] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If people pronounce squirrel as one syllable, then I guess squirreled could be as well, but it’s not in my dialect.

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[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

poop (or fart); they're such universal words that everybody, kids and adults alike, just understand how gross and funny they are instantly.

[-] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I like to yell " HULST ! " whenever i see it, and then point at it. It's dutch for holly

[-] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] kindenough@kbin.earth 4 points 2 months ago

Shmeckels, nick name of my cat when he eats...and shmecks

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