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Post 1

Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress'

I'm responsible for this, aren't I? Sorry, it appears that in my blind enthusiasm, I forgot to actually add an entry. It must have been those accursed fish- such a distraction.
In the meantime, please feel free to savour the following lexical sparklers...
Rotunda, jitty, podium, hiatus, miasma/ic, chicken, hollow, fox, sheep-dip, troglodyte, strata, soapstone.


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Post 2

The 1 and only Elkherd

Stubborn, buggies, Vladivostock... can't think of any more right now, but I filled the back pages of my old school books with these. Poorly, refuge, refuse, etc.


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Post 3

Queex Quimwrangler (Not Egon)

You can go back and edit the page, but sadly not remove these spurious forum entries.
And how about Nosecone, Brouhaha, Tsktsk, Nurdle, Trinket and Burgeoning?


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Post 4

Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress'

No, don't worry about being spurious, I'm quite used to it. These words are all quite toothsome and nice.
You spelled a word wrong in another entry, by the way. Don't worry. I won't tell anyone.


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Post 5

Queex Quimwrangler (Not Egon)

I didn't. My fingers did. BAD fingers (slap).


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Post 6

Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress'

Oooh, you liar! I've seen you at your worst. Tsktsk isn't a word, it's an onomatopaeic assimilative utterance. Anyway: bassoon, faggot, myrtle, suppository, facade (forgive the lack of a gubbins), gubbins, tricycle, mangold-wurzel, gombroon, cathode, anaphylactic shock.
Thankyou for your time.


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Post 7

Queex Quimwrangler (Not Egon)

Tsktsk is a verb, meaning "to say 'tsk'". So, while Tsk is an onomatopaeic interjection, tsktsk is a word.


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Post 8

Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress'

No, I think you'll find it isn't. It's just a REPETITIVE onomatopaeic assimilative utterance.
Philomel, banal, scumbag, extreme unction.


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Post 9

Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress'

I can reply to me because I am alone. Yes, Queex is a bit of a dolt, isn't he? Absolutely. Where were we... right: bugle, oblong, shoddy, Hob-Nob, gnome, toddler, bitching, sarcophagus, scarab, tumescent, fellabella, toffee, Hovis, toilet.
Now, try putting them into sentences.


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