by compound complex 33 Replies latest jw friends
Here's a word I like: butterfly.
It sounds quite nice as it is but if you switch the initial sounds you get 'flutter-by'.
How cool is that!
I also like the German for butterfly: Schmetterling.
French and Italian are beautiful languages but German can be beautiful too.
Metathesis.
Examples:
Hoppergrass, peckerwood, ragtag, shutterfly, and sideburns.
Thank you so much, everyone, for contributing to this thread!
With gratitude.
valetudinarian -- one unduly concerned with one's health (not the same as a hypochondriac)
Here's a word I like: butterfly. It sounds quite nice as it is but if you switch the initial sounds you get 'flutter-by'. -- LUHE
How about the French equivalent for butterfly: papillon
How did I miss this thread before?!
I love words like "antiquity" or "historicity ". The way they are articulated and pronounced is very cool.
Denouement.
Floccinaucinihilipilification (noun) - the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.
I can't pronounce it - but I know a man who can ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS8K5dCq71I
Antidisestablishmentarianism.
LOL.
I know this is vulgar but I find the word schlong interesting.
It means a man's penis and has a connection to the German word Schlange (snake) via Yiddish.
Once in field service, I overhead a male householder say the snake in the Garden was a euphemism for a man's penis.
An uptight elder quickly herded us away from the man's premises!
