I got my dad a book titled "The Superior Persons Book of Words" and have "borrowed" it and found these words:

xanthodontous : having yellow teeth and

apocolocynposis: fear of turning into a pumpkin!

from ilovespike (since moy is on holiday in hawaii, lucky cow!)



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"What I need is a strong drink and a peer-group." -Ford Prefect

lutraphobia - fear of otters

I would love to hear a story about how someone got that.



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Probably was tortured by the evil king of the otter underworld...

how about this : yburpananseca, the stealing of a calf or lamb.



"What I need is a strong drink and a peer-group." -Ford Prefect

It's from the Latin. The word "Lutrine" means "pertaining to otters".

Similarly I quite like the word "Fringillaceous" which means, oddly enough, "pertaining to finches", although it always sounds like it should come from the world of haberdashery.

Two of my favourites:

steatopygous -- having a large backside

hodmandod (or hoddydoddy) -- a kind of small garden snail



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

pognophobia - fear of beards

Smuck - a group of jellyfish

In Spanish, "esposa" means wife or handcuffs

Guess how you pronounce the name Phtholognyrrh?

(it's Turner)

Rename this topic hippopotomonstrousquipedalianism - the word for the practice of using long words.



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If you suffered from lutraphobia, you would be worried if you found any spraints.

Any guesses from those who don't know?



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Plural of otter?

Fforde gets e-mails from intelligent 12-year-olds who get a kick out of spotting the jokes and puns

Not you, is it ilovespike?



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Me know spraints (this what reading Henry Williamson and Gavin Maxwell at a young age does for you. How was I to know the one was a fascist and the other a paedophile?).

It's otter crap, I tell you. Also utter crap is Holt (where an otter lives).



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

good medical word to know: borborygmi--those noises that your tummy makes when you're hungry. (it rhymes with pygmi)

I knew borborygmi from an early age, comes with having a professor of physiology as a Grandad. He also used to say, prior to letting out one of his virtuoso burps, "pardon me one moment while I eructate" which has passed into common use amongst the family. I also used to astonish visitors by mentioning that my dolly had perineal stitches, the plastic join between her legs had come undone, and Grandad fixed her with some copper wire.

Great story, MissP.

Micturate is a good word, too--wee.

Reminds of the guy who got himself elected as a Congressman for some rube district by claiming his opponent had matriculated, was in favour of elocution for children, and was secretly a student of psephology.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Nup Intrigue, not me! Hmmm...


multiloquous - very talkative

mussitation - mumuring, grumbling


What does Phtholognyrrh mean?



"What I need is a strong drink and a peer-group." -Ford Prefect

ILS - Phtholognyrrh doesn't mean anything, it is a "sound game", like Ghoti = fish

"Phth" - "T", as in phthisis (an infectious disease of the lungs)
"olo" - "ur", as in colonel
"gn" - "n", as in gnat
"yrrh" - "er", as in myrrh



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Ohhhhh....

On the topic of word games (not that we were or anything), solve this riddle:

A man is in a room with a mirror, and a desk. There are no windows or doors, no obvious ways of escape. How does he get out?



"What I need is a strong drink and a peer-group." -Ford Prefect

Rub his hands together to make them sore. Use the saw to cut the desk into two halves. Two halves make a whole. Crawl through the hole and escape? (don't know what the mirror is for though)

I'd go with KT's answer. Here are some questions taken directly from the school website. If I answer them all correctly, I can get $20 off WOLP!

Solve the following cryptic clues.

Eg Great gap appearing in baby’s shoes (5) - ABYSS
Racecourse salts (5) - EPSOM

1. Legal relative (2-3) _________________________

2. Result of using new blade near miss (5,5) _________________________

3. Practical joking, as by crocodile perhaps? (3-7) _________________________

4. It gets beaten by 2 cats (6) _________________________

5. Aristocracy enjoying a bit of a loaf (5,5) _________________________

6. Chemical obtained from trees (5) _________________________

7. Used to measure a bit of fish (5) _________________________

8. Sought by Mother Hubbard (the skinny one!) (3,2,5) _________________________

9. Nothing due to an unused writing tablet (5,5) _________________________

10. Throw out a food remnant (5) _________________________

11. Breathes quickly into some clothing (5) _________________________

12. With which to pick up exclusive news (5) _________________________

13. Plenty for an Australian insurer and the French (5) _________________________

14. It was a cicatrix on Chirac’s lower back (4) _________________________

15. See Spooner pull Ben somewhere away from the cows (7) _________________________

16. What a fisherman does for a percussion instrument (8) _________________________

17. The beads thrown about Jerusalem pool (8) _________________________

18. Diet Oprah organised for Greek goddess (9) _________________________

19. Clever dick fixed our helicopter (7,6) _________________________

20. Study for a mummy’s boy (10) _________________________



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I knew one similar to that. It ended screamed until he was hoarse. Got on the horse and rode away. Don't know what the mirror was for.

Sorry, Intrigue, no time now. I'll take a look at them at work.

N.

I can't be bothered editing my post, but my word became the subject!



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