What is the most fake sounding real word in English?

[NickCaligo42]

"Gazebo."

Your head says "guh-zee-bow" but your eyes say "gaze-bow."

"Schedule."

Your head says "sked-joo-uhl" but your eyes say "Skeh-doo-lee."

 

[Nimbus]

Onomatopoeias.

Seriously, what the fuck?!

 

[DuplicateValue]

Apophthegm: A blunt remark or comment.
Defenestration: The act of someone or something being thrown through a window.

I happen to adore that last one. =D

Also, perinium.......let's just say it's a body part...

 

[DuplicateValue]

buffalo, when used as a verb, makes no sense at all.

A verb?

Like "I just buffalo-ed"?

Or "I'm gonna buffalo you"?

Makes sense to me. =D

 

[chetoos]

whelmed and ert

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Wasn't "noob" made an offical English word awhile back?

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

Derailed thread has been derailed.




OT: Derailed.


It looks so stupid.

 

[Malkavian]

hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia-the fear of long words. It's so redundant because you can't say it if you have it.

IIRC, that's actually just a joke. It's not an official word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias
See Jocular and fictional phobias.

 

[UtopiaV1]

Commercialness... yea, seriously, that's a word apparently... it made my head hurt too...

 

[Minjoltr]

'Wayzegoose'. Also, 'obligated'; it sounds like a lazy, Americanized, made-up way of saying 'obliged' but apparently it's a real word.

 

[Eatbrainz]

Physics... It should be spelled FIZIX! Fizix looks way cooler.

Damn straight.

 

[Izerous]

Consternate/Consternated/Consternates - to unsettle, throw into confusion, perh. intensive deriv. of consternere to cover, spread (with) (con- con- + sternere to strew; cf. stratum ), though sense development uncert.

He a few of my more redneck friends use it, instead of constipated because they thought it was funny. Turns out it was a real word. Just has nothing to do with being constipated.

 

[VanityGirl]

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

hahhaa wow
nooo it's realll

okay enough of that
ummm
"it's pronounced 'egregious' "

Ah, good 'ol Jack Sparrow.

OT: Acetylcholinesterase
It's inhibits acetylcholine in the body.

 

[Sallix]

Dyslexia, it seems like insult to injury to me.

 

[WickedSkin]

That's just a string of amino-acids; I don't think that it really counts as a "real word".

You'd think that, but it has been used in American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts, so I believe it now counts.

There is one larger at 3561 characters, but it's never been used.

Still think it would qualify as a string of amino-acids and not a word. At least I hope so. Dictionary would gain 4 pounds if they print that shit in it.

 

[Disaster Button]

Gum. It doesn't even look like a word, it's like a dictionary threw up a smattering of letters and made that.

Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum.
Just doesn't sound right..

 

[duchaked]

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

hahhaa wow
nooo it's realll

okay enough of that
ummm
"it's pronounced 'egregious' "

Ah, good 'ol Jack Sparrow.

OT: Acetylcholinesterase
It's inhibits acetylcholine in the body.

aha, I was hoping someone would get the reference

lol how about...galumph
(to move clumsily)

 

[Luke5515]

mastication-If I'm not mistake, it means eating.