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Researcher PSG Posted Jun 21, 2001
One of my favorite official English words is:
Collywobbles 
- An aprehensive feeling
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Notsteve (who is a bo selector) Posted Jun 21, 2001
A word which always struck me as being amusing was 'pidgeon'.
Has a funny sound to it and just generally makes me smile.
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Xanatic Posted Jun 21, 2001
I haven´t got the time to look through all the previous words so this might have been here. I find the word ointment really bizarre. Sounds like a word a pig would invent.
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Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' Posted Jun 21, 2001
Galoshes.
Pudding- gets me every time.
Flugelhorn
Quandary
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FG Posted Jun 21, 2001
Rapscallion--especially if you say it with a lisp.
Twaddle,
twee, and
flibbertygibbet.
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Tibley Bobley Posted Jun 21, 2001
Has anyone mentioned that place in Scotland called "Killmahog"? If I had a hog, I don't think I'd ever take it there for a holiday.
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Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' Posted Jun 21, 2001
There's a word in the Douglas Adams/Someone Else book The Deeper Meaning of Liff (in fact there's several, it being a word book):
An 'attack of the dumbles' meaning much the same as collywobbles, but a bit more embarrassing.
Word junkies, you must seek this book out.
Minestrone
Cribbage
Falsehood
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Rama - now floating around the world on Her Majesty's Finest Posted Jun 22, 2001
Linguini,
Seems to roll off the tongue.
Rama
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Phreako Posted Jun 22, 2001
I still like the word gnu the best
gnu gnu gnu gnu gnu gnu gnu gnu gnu gnu gnu gnu gnu gnu gnu
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unremarkable: Lurker, OMFC, LPAS Posted Jun 22, 2001
jalopy! thats a good one...
what about Hogey?
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trillianette Posted Jun 22, 2001
also fetid, salubrious, limpid, ink, and cheeky. 
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FG Posted Jun 22, 2001
Slaphappy (it just makes me smile saying it), noggin, tweak, shifty, gizzard, nuzzle, and snorkel.
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Yelbakk Posted Jun 23, 2001
Bujumbura - Capital of Burundi
Lubumbashi - a citiy in Zaire (Congo?)
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- 101: Researcher PSG (Jun 21, 2001)
- 102: Notsteve (who is a bo selector) (Jun 21, 2001)
- 103: Xanatic (Jun 21, 2001)
- 104: Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' (Jun 21, 2001)
- 105: FG (Jun 21, 2001)
- 106: Tibley Bobley (Jun 21, 2001)
- 107: Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' (Jun 21, 2001)
- 108: Rama - now floating around the world on Her Majesty's Finest (Jun 22, 2001)
- 109: Phreako (Jun 22, 2001)
- 110: Woodpigeon (Jun 22, 2001)
- 111: unremarkable: Lurker, OMFC, LPAS (Jun 22, 2001)
- 112: Phreako (Jun 22, 2001)
- 113: Phreako (Jun 22, 2001)
- 114: trillianette (Jun 22, 2001)
- 115: trillianette (Jun 22, 2001)
- 116: Phreako (Jun 22, 2001)
- 117: FG (Jun 22, 2001)
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- 120: Yelbakk (Jun 23, 2001)
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