h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A few useful words to greet you in the morning.

horse (unbeatable as a funny word. Just repeat it a few times out loud)

jentacular- relating to breakfast
flatus- bowel gas
fardel -a parcel
horriplilation- goosebumps
poetaster-a bad poet
pogonophile - a beard-lover
smellfeast -an uninvited dinner guest
bibliobibuli - people who read too much

curmudgeon
skrimanger
Herring
Cuttlefish
doolally
woopsy
daschund

They just seem to crawl out of the woodwork ...

talking of woodwork i'd say that was pretty amusing.......and how about tinkle?

How about

expung
diatripe
cuddling
ravioli
titilate
string
fiddling
rasp
cardigan
snaffle
scuttle

I think rhinoscerus is funny (unless I am in the presence of one)also rhetoric and precocious and Oxymoron.

Resurrecting this and thinking it has probably been mentioned somewhere:

"blubber"


Y.

I always found the verb 'fling' or 'flung' to be innately amusing.

And 'collided' has has hidden comedy depths.

Compare the following.

Their heads hit making a hollow knocking sound.

Their heads collided making a hollow knocking sound.


I think the second sentence is funnier.

I remember a conversation once where we decided that for some reason double barrelled English place names sounded funnier than single ones, for example: Chipping Norton sounds funnier than Abingdon, Potter's Bar sounds funnier than Barnet.

There are plenty of "double barrelled" place names that make me smile inside.

Bishops Itchington.
Cerne Abbas
Farleigh Wallop

but I want to live in:-

Burton Coggles.

And then there are funny sounding words that are far from funny. I hesitate to mention, "colostomy".

PP

"but I want to live in:-

Burton Coggles."

You don't you know, I know the place well

BTW, its proper name is 'Burton-Le-Coggles' - it is one of those places that the county council is trying to rename through omission when they print the village sign up. Although there's always an enterprising local with a bit of paint or masking tape to put it back in

Limpley Poke I mean Limpley Stoke

of course no discussion of funny soundimng double barrelled place names is complete without mention of Little Sodbury

There's also Chipping Sodbury I believe. (I say, this would make a fine expletive. 'Oh, Chipping Sodbury!'

... reminds me that Dorset has Piddlehinton, which sits on the River Piddle. I'm sure I once read somewhere that some entrepreneur bought a former brewery set up on the R.Piddle, and started bottling and selling...



... 'piddlewater'

However, I've tried googling this to no avail. Surely I couldn't have dreampt it

Stomach.
Panties.
Log.

PP