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Monday Night Owls - 12 March 2018 - Silly sounding words
We read an article which explained why there are lots of silly sounding words in British English:
Vocabulary Top 10:
barmy - crazy or foolish
balderdash - foolish words or ideas; nonsense
whimsical - unusual in a playful or amusing way : not serious
coinage - the act of creating a new word or phrase that other people begin to use
pervasiveness - existing in every part of something : spreading to all parts of something
willingness - quick to act or respond : doing something or ready to do something without being persuaded
fanciful - coming from the imagination; showing imagination : unusual and appealing
epoch - a period of time that is very important in history
cringe - to feel disgust or embarrassment and often to show this feeling by a movement of your face or body; to make a sudden movement from fear of being hit or hurt
gobsmacked - very surprised or shocked (US English - dumbstruck)
What was your favourite silly sounding word from the article? (check out the video in the article for some words with their definitions)
What other silly sounding words do you know?
Challenge: write a story using as many of these words as you can!
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Tom: That sounds a little balderdash, but I like these fanciful ideas!
How can I join your Group Please.
Thansk a lot.
At first, I think you should download the app, Discord. Then, ask Lynne to add you to the group (send her a private message). Good luck!
When I first heard this word "fakakta" I wasn't sure that I heard it right. but after I search It exists so it might be on my silly sounding words
fakakta: a word used to describe something that is not working well or is really crap
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What kind of wazzock would do it ? Let alone that in the majority of cases you suddenly would be choked to death even if it were just a piece of it.
what a sticky wicket to get sight of the man rolling and writhing on the floor, trying to clear his throat.
He ought to have been taught, when still a child, that you have to take your time, patiently and carefully chew any chunk of food you bring up to your mouth.
That's especially true, if the food being talked is tasty and appetizing as well: cod in question most likely was.
Then, what if the man had be presented, instead, with such dishes as dead man's arm and toad in the hole ?
Well, in this case, I suppose, just a toad-eater would have praised the cook, while dissimulating his disgust by grinning and bearing it.
Just hope the cod hasn't settled around his waist though; if the situation was to go pearshaped, in fact, the man would turn out hopelessly pearshaped.
Maybe if someone had done it to gazump him to the cod, at the restaurant, he wouldn't now be cringing and snorting at the missed snog.