The Most Beautiful Sunding Word, that's quite obscure, You've HeardiO!

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― jah, Friday, 24 June 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Right now it's a close tie between 'sunding' and 'HeardiO'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

"Raggett"

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

An extremely beautiful word!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Ned OTM.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

tyramine

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Furisode. Also tisane and cephalopod.

― Arachne, Friday, 24 June 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Electocephaligraph...

(As heared on Radio Stars' "Nervous Wreck")

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 24 June 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Actually, smugsonians (Ned in particular), both "sunding" and "heardio" are examples of olde Listswainian dialect, most oft heardio in folks songs, don't you knowzio!

― jah., Friday, 24 June 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

"Smugsonian" has entered the running.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 June 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

"The Smugsonian Institute opens new history museum, Institute head claims 'Oh man, it's going to be so much better than all those other shitty museums.'"

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 June 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

What was that funny word that was on the Kylie Minogue poster-Vhaataastic?

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 24 June 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm thirding Smugsonian here, it is a beautiful word indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

i once saw the word 'scarified' on a road construction sign in northern maine. wow.

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 24 June 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

amblyopia

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 24 June 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

It's a borborygmus day here in Hampshire, smugsonians! Quite forky, it is, and no mistake!

― jah., Friday, 24 June 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

What a perfectly cromulent sentence!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 June 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Thank you, gentle rank of man!
Thank you, Ned and thank you, Dan -
The epoch of fecundity looms!
The push-to-release hub
In my CD's jewel case blooms,
And the barstool in the pub
Is a beanstalk!

― Jah., Friday, 24 June 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Fermity and curdio!
The age of freak fecundity,
Of words that sund so sweet;
Words you'd never heardio -
Spoken by the elite,
Till now ...

― Jah., Friday, 24 June 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Cellar Door

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Friday, 24 June 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

"Stop making fun of me, you smugstonians"

http://www.blackmailmag.com/images/CINEMA/DonnieDarko.jpg

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Friday, 24 June 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

I invented "ovirapture" today.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Celler doordio!
The picture has audio -
It's a talkie!
The barstool is beanstalky!
O' borborygmus and forky
Day!

― Jah., Friday, 24 June 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

The Amazing Jaxon is not the brightest.

― undertone gal, Friday, 24 June 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Quisquose. Thank you, Elizabeth Fraser.

― Ian Riese-Moraine eats nation-states for breakfast! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I Heardio the Sund of Thunder!!

The age of freak fecundity looms!
The push-to-release hub
In my CD's jewel case blooms,
And the barstool in the pub
Becomes a beanstalk!

Fermity and curdio!
The age of freak fecundity,
Of words that sund so sweet;
Words you'd never heardio -
Spoken by the elite,
Till now ...

Cellar doordio!
The picture has audio -
It's a talkie!
The barstool is beanstalky!
O' borborygmus and forky
Day!

― Jah., Friday, 24 June 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

cephalopod

hmm, that is nice. as words go.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

I am a fan of pod-ending words: Pseudopod is also nice.

― Arachne, Friday, 24 June 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

The Amazing Jaxon is not the brightest.

why thank you! i'm a darkie

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Friday, 24 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Ian Reise-Moraine I love you will you have my children.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 25 June 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

Aikea-Guinea means "flat shells that have been bleached and smoothed out by the sea and the sand".

― Obby Avenian, Saturday, 25 June 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

Unwinese. Look it up smugsonians!

― Dununstable, Saturday, 25 June 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

Obby - really? oh wow cool.

I love how the entire lyrics of "Mellonella" is a listing of Latin butterfly names. wonderful.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 25 June 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

Yeah - more generally it's an old Scottish colloquialism for a seashell. "Aikea-Guinea": achingly beautiful word, ain't it, Trayce!?

― Obby Avenian, Saturday, 25 June 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

We trudge through thokish fens. Thockish.

― Middel Tme, Saturday, 25 June 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

"Tadpolehood".

― Owen, Saturday, 25 June 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

"Teapotful".

― Owen, Saturday, 25 June 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

things that sparkle darkly, with flashes of darkness, as it were, "darkle".

― Pic, Saturday, 25 June 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Tennyson's "Delayingly".

― Owen, Saturday, 25 June 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

"Deleteriously".

― Pic, Saturday, 25 June 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

This thread is heading abysswards; abysswards with this thread! Flush it out!

― jah., Saturday, 25 June 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

What a perfectly cromulent sentence!

I liked it so much, I bought the domain.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 25 June 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

Hesperiidae
Papilionidae
Hyblaeoidae
Epiplemidae
Notodontidae
Nemeobiidae
Eupterotidae
Callidulidae

Dioptidae
Lymantriidae
Noctuidae
Endromidae
Oxytenidae
Lycaenidae
Argyresthiidae
Ctenuchidae

Nepticulidae
Hieroxestidae
Symmocidae
Blastobasidae
Heliozelidae
Limacodidae
Agonoxenidae
Compsoctenidae

Neopseustidae
Incurvariidae
Oecophoridae
Stenomidae
Thyrididae
Heliodinidae
Glyphipterigidae
Dudgeoneidae

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 25 June 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

Sing it. You'll see it works. Totally. Shes a goddess.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 25 June 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

"Aeolist": One who pretends to have inspiration or enlightenment.
"Lucubration": The act of studying by candlelight; nocturnal study;
meditation.
"Effroyable": Frightful.
"Verbochromia": Attributing colours to words.
"Thrion": Adam and eve's fig leaf coverings.
"Quiggiligus": One of the individual holes in the mesh on most speakers (plural - quiggiligi).
"Swansea": City in Wales

― Lio, Thursday, 1 September 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

Agraffe- the correct name for that bit of wire around a champagne cork.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 1 September 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

Is that true? Same word as for 'staple' in French. Though maybe that has just the one 'f'.

I have just had an interesting discussion with a colleague about kissing, or OSCULATION.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

It is true - Rogan Whitenails uses this word in his poem called "Her Name Is Camelopardlis":

"On Oxford Street, a wire artist
Hears her name, and starts to twist
A wine bottle's agraffe
Into the shape of a tiny giraffe."

An Agraffe:
http://www.flaschen.de/bottle-shop/images/mittel/10001.jpg

― jah, Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

I rather like sesquipedalian...Which seems entirely apposite here.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

How fantastic is it that Swansea gets into the above list.

"Sudbury"

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

why thank you! i'm a darkie

This almost made me spray my monitor with coffee.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

Lance Percival.

― Will Wool, Thursday, 1 September 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Beautiful sounding? Quite obscure? Then I'd have to go with:

infindibula

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

The Moro reflex

― Kit Hendageenodak, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Hear hear. I would say allll the baby reflexes are skipper-flashers, Kit.

My favourite is (personally that I have heardiO): Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex.

― Owen, Sunday, 1 January 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

best thread title ever! i've missed it

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 04:51 (fourteen years ago)

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