Sounds Funny

 

 

The written word itself may or may not be interesting.

But how it sounds when spoken–can be downright engaging!

Some words are short.  Abrupt.  Smacking you upside the head with purpose.  While longer words can have an ebb & flow.  A cadence which carries you along with a venacular rhythm.

 

I love words, names, places that possess a little extra somethin’ somethin’.  And I have been collecting them for quite a while now.  So here, in no particular order, are those I think sound funny…..

• Abu Dhabi (Ah-boo Dah-bee)

• Charcuterie

• Benjamin Netanyahu (Net-in Ya-hoo)

• Iliac (the bone)

• Ampersand

• Clavicle (another bone)

• Machu Picchu

• Gina Lollabrigida (RIP)

• Yak (the animal, not digestive disorder)

• Sickle Cell Anemia

• Didgeridoo (didg-er-re-doo)

• Marsupial

• Alexander Solzhenitsyn (soul-zuh-neat-sn)

  The Russian writer & beard grower

 

• Spam

• Proboscis

• Bronko Nagurski (HOF football player)

• Kazakhstan (Kaa-zuhk-staan, the country)

• Twinkie (the snack cake)

• Whooping Cough

• Zydrunas Ilgauskas (Zah-dru-nus Ill-gal-scus, basketball great)

• Albuquerque

• Macaque (ma-kack, the monkey)

• Hoboken

• Goiter

• Rutabaga (fun to say, not to eat)

• Harry Belafonte

• Goose (the fowl AND the gesture)

• Oboe

  

   

• Amoeba (I LOVE science words!)

• Duodenum (doo-an-DEE-num)

• Cucamonga

• Rocky Marciano

• Uvula

• Ogre

• Guacamole (better with a chip!)

• Spackle (the pasty hole filler)

• Sheboygan

• Platypus (a marsupial if you are keeping track)

• Djibouti (Ji-bootie, the country)

And lastly,

• Dick Butkus (HOF football great)

Who knows, you may have your own list of quirky words.  If it sounds funny, I’d love for you to share them in a comment.

Till next time, keep moving…and word-up!