- Frisbeetarian, one who believes that when you die tour soul goes up on the roof ans gets stuck.
- The Houston Chronicle, 1994 - coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon. - The Washington Post - 1998
- asterisk (v.), to inquire about danger. ibid.
- esplanade (verb form of the noun), to attempt an explanation while drunk, ibid.
- negligent (adj.), a condition in which a woman absent-mindedly answers the door in her nightie. ibid.
- abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. ibid.
- artery: The study of paintings. Saul Ricklin, 2001
- bacteria: The back door to a cafeteria. ibid.
- Cesarian section: A neighborhood in Rome. ibid.
- dilate: To live long. ibid.
- nitrates: Cheaper than day rates. ibid.
- node: Was aware of. ibid.
- outpatient: Someone who fainted.ibid.
- postoperative: Letter carrier. ibid.
- terminal illness: Getting sick at the airport. ibid. or Nausea from too much internet. Don Ricklin, 2001
- Sarchasm: sär-ˌka-zəm: noun; the gap between someone being ironic and the person who doesn't get the joke. Stolen from Richard at SmugMug
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Quodlibet
quod·li·bet \Quod"li*bet\ (kw[o^]d"l[i^]*b[e^]t), n. [L., what you please.] 1. A nice point; a subtilty; a debatable point.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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English Spelling? Does English really work this way?
* Pronounce "ghoti".
* Pronounce "Phtholognyrrh".
* Spell "coffee" completely wrong.
Go to the bottom of the page for answers!
* Pronounce "Phtholognyrrh".
* Spell "coffee" completely wrong.
Go to the bottom of the page for answers!
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Daffynitions:
A category that The Washington Post calls "redefinitions".
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- ghoti is pronounced: fish, 'gh' as in tough, 'o' as in women and 'ti' as in motion! Attributed to George Bernard Shaw by some. Visit GHOTI for a rant against this "joke" about english pronuciation.
- Phtholognyrrh pronounced: Turner, According to a Mr. Turner who insisted on signing his name that way according to Robert M. Rennick in I Didn't Catch Your Name, Verbatim® Vol. XXix, No2. Mr Turner explains: " Look, the phth is like phthisic, which is pronounced t; olo is like colonel, which is pronounced ur; gn as in gnat is pronounced n; and yrrh as in myrrh, is pronounced er. So you have Turner. Nothing could be simpler." Reader's Digest, Jan . 1941, p. 42
- coffee spelled completely incorrectly is kauphy! or kaughy!