What is the most fake sounding real word in English?

[grimsprice]

Isn't using online translational dictionaries to pursue our ever growing manly egos based upon the misinformed knowledge that the opposite sex enjoys "well-endowed" gentlemen fun?

Idk what planet you live on, but its not misinformed knowledge where i come from...

 

[Podunk]

Gasifier.
As in, a wood gasifier which is a machine that converts wood into fuel. I saw it on The Colony. It still doesn't sit right with me : /

 

[Graustein]

Arachnophobia.
I know it's technically Latin but when you think about it the number of original English words is almost negligible.

Greek, actually.

no-one has mentioned discombobulated, never looked into it myself but my old english teacher said it was a real word, I still deny it.

Discombobulated is indeed a word. A mighty fine one too.


I'll have to go with hippopotomonstrosesquipadeliaphobia. It's just stupid.

Or, spaghettification, which is basically what happens when you get sucked into a black hole. Coined by Steven Hawking, no less.

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

Arachnophobia.
I know it's technically Latin but when you think about it the number of original English words is almost negligible.

Greek, actually.

Whoops. My bad.

Wait a minute... WHOOPS! I'm pretty sure that is a real word!
[Checking...] It Is!

 

[Jedisolo75]

If you?re looking for proof that the English language is the stupidest ever conceived, just look at the word colonel. There are lots of words that don't sound like they're spelled, but come on! On the day that they were making up the correct spelling of words someone pissed off the guy in charge of military ranks.

 

[SimuLord]

Women's orgasm..oh wait thats two words. Got no idea really...

I could not have pressed that bright red button any faster if I tried.

OT: Ginormous

Was that really worth reporting for?

Depends on which mod hits it in the queue. I know nilcypher's got a quick trigger finger for anything that could be construed as sexist (he once suspended someone for making a sexist joke and probation'd anyone who quoted/laughed at it), I don't know about the others.

 

[ReZerO]

i have quite a distaste for the word "guesstimate"
i heard it used on a news program once and have not watched that program since.

 

[Calatar]

I heard this word just today from my Differential Equations teacher. He's british, and in our discussion of spirals in phase diagrams, he refers to the directions clockwise and anticlockwise. Tired of having people point out that it's called counterclockwise in America, he decided he will now call it widdershins.

 

[BlackJack47]

Bibliography

 

[Rosee]

Made me lol

 

[Zenode]

Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­parao­melito­katakechy­menokichlepikossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon

I DARE you to say it in one go

 

[Rathy]

I kinda like lisp myself. It pronounces like the problem!

But really, I say anything that ever appears in middle english and in stuff that we use today. It breaks heads.

 

[Doctor_Insano]

the word 'A"... probablly the longest dictionnary definition vs length of word...

 

[Haberley]

Gastronomy. Seriously, it sounds like every food critic in the country got together and said "Hmm, there isn't a word for enjoying food that makes us sound pretentious enough. What on Earth shall we do?". Seriously. I hate that word.

 

[Redingold]

the word 'A"... probablly the longest dictionnary definition vs length of word...

I think that would be the word up.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

"meme". No one knows how it's pronounced, still, it's used over 9000 times every day (online).

That is actualy french inculturation into English I think.

I thought it was coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene. [Roots out copy]... Yep. Meme (with one of those ^ on tne 1st e that I don't know how to type) is French for memory, however 'meme' is a shortened form of Mimeme. Meme is pronounced similar to cream and gene. 'Meem'.

OT: The word " lieutenant" Why it's pronounced "Leftenant" I shall never know.

 

[Sebass]

Women's orgasm..oh wait thats two words. Got no idea really...

I could not have pressed that bright red button any faster if I tried.

OT: Ginormous

Sounds like someone is in need of one .. ? ;D

Bad taste?

Anyway, for me probably the word flabbergasted. It just sounds wierd, reminds me of flubber.

Meme (with one of those ^ on tne 1st e that I don't know how to type) is French for memory

"Même". There you go
By the way it means 'same' not memory. Memory is mémoire, hence: memoires.