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By Jon Naismith.

Looks pretty funny, it gives words new meanings based on what they sound like.

A couple of examples I've seen are:

Arsenic - Having sat on a razor blade

Bedlam - A very favourite sheep

Marinade - A soft drink for weddings

― Rumpie, Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Looks pretty funny

Based on those examples, I humbly beg to differ.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

hmm... i have to agree.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Rummage - when you get a glass of drink thats

actually, let's not.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Gimme a break, I'm of small and easily amused mind.

There were other funnier ones (honest), I wish I could bloody remember. Help me out here.

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue to thread.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Johnney, yeah, that's where it all kicked off from. Y'all get the gist.... nobody got any exmaples of they're own?

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

OK, try again.

Hemel Hempstead.

ach.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

One-trick pony.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0330281216.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

(yes, i know it's not the same thing. but it is cleverer and funnier.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Spot on, Grimly. (It was in fact exactly what I thought of when I read this thread earlier.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Similar but different (placenames used for words that should exist but don't):
http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html

aka Snigglets in the states.

(ah, xpost)

STURRY (n.,vb.)
A token run. Pedestrians who have chosen to cross a road immediately in front of an approaching vehicle generally give a little wave and break into a sturry. This gives the impression of hurrying without having any practical effect on their speed whatsoever.

WOKING (participial vb.)
Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

i first read "liff" in 1988 and i still use some of the words today. "polperro" is a particular favourite.

thinking about it, i could make a strong case for it being my favourite book of all time. the joyous genius of the index adds a whole new dimension. time to get my copy back from the friend to whom i lent it four fucking years ago :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

The only ones I remember from "Liff" are:

Minchinhampton - the expression on a man's face when he does up his trousers without due care and attention

and

Royston - the person in the pew in front of you in church who sings very loudly but a quarter of a tone off the note

prolly only remember the second one coz my sister lives near Royston.

I *did* actually find the Uxbridge examples funny. Maybe I have the sense of humour of a sodding nematode.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 7 May 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

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