River Cottage

I love the word cantankerous. (whose spelling doesn't look right to me, but there's no squiggly red line so I'm guessing it is). I hate words like 'chillax'!

Most of the modern language the kids use today make's me cringe.. initdow   yagetme....aaaarrgghh!!

I use to find some word where very funny when said slowly and making a face in the mirror while saying it was always a good one..ooorrrr have you ever looked at someone upside down and watch them speak.. this can be done with the said person's head on you lap. Their bottom lip becomes their top  lip and it looks very weired, but hysterical.   A group of us girls, usually drinking copious amounts of wine and usually at the end of the evening we would start this game of saying silly words, which usually ended up with one of us urgently needing a wee!

I like round juice words, which must be said slowly,eg Marshmallows... and spiky words which should be said quick and higher pitch then usual. eg Squeaky...mm very good thread Tb will need to give this some thought on what word make my smile etc..

My maiden Aunt Virtue would stare at us across my Grandparent's dinner table and almost shout an order to us.

'Masticate'

As 13 year olds my cousin and I would explode with laughter; much to her annoyance.

ooohooh just thought of a word which was read from a book by a very stern male teacher to a class of hormone raged kids.. 'Billy was a spunky chap... The whole class erupted in snigger's.

The only words that annoy me are those that are misapplied - for example saying 'decimated' when the intent is to describe total destruction. Or spoonerisms that are actually creeping into text with no intention to be humorous.

And one author whose work I otherwise enjoy uses iris to describe pupil, and vice versa on a regular basis - it makes me want to throw the book away!!

'I will bludgeon you with a pungent cudgel'.

That's all.

Juice - makes me feel queasy hearing the word!

I think because as a child a bad chest infection was referred to as 'juicy' so now i just think phlegm.    

"Philip neglects me terribly" said in a confiding stage whisper to acquaintances.

This is neither true or particularly fair but it makes me chuckle, not least because of the sympathetic glances I can elicit and OH's exasperated tutting beside me.

TopBannana

gusset..........need i say more................................and  newly invented word as far as i know....floordrobe, where people just drop their clothes all over the bedroom floor?...

Almost had hot chocolate over the key board.... soo funny.   aaaaaahhh I need a wee.