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Your word of the day.

Fug

Septonn said:
You mean Fernseher?

The Germans make up some fantastic words with way too many letters, try pronouncing Rechtschutzversicherungsgesellchaften (legal protection insurance companies) for example :)

edit: a guinea pig is a Meerschweinchen in German
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I suppose I do but was longer and more elaborate in memory than fact it seems. (Very) vaguely recall it being used as an example of the way many German words are formed by mixing bits of other words together so although a complete pain in the arse to learn to spell and pronounce (for me anyway - never did get the hang of German but do like lots of the words as long as I'm not tested on them on a regular basis on pain of detention) the meanings tend to be rather pleasing, rich and complex. At least that's what I've decided is the case on the basis of several fine words that I'm quite fond of. Still sure the word that I never did quite get the hang of spelling must've been trickier than that though - may not like having extra languages forced on me purely cos you had to more than one if you got good at one (not objecting to learning German, just of having to do an extra lesson I could have not done if I were thicker and/or shitter at French which just happened to be taught first).

And yup, that's the sneezy guinea pig word. Dunno if it always sounds like a sneeze but in the instance I first heard it it sounded very much like a sneeze and made me =D on more than one occasion so will always be a sneezy word in my mind if not elsewhere. Nope - does sound like a sneeze unless it's pronounced in deliberately unsneezelike manner - ie pronounced wrongly. Meer-shwinchen (that's how it sounds in my head not how it's spelt I know - German spelling is a blind spot for me even when copying from the screen).
 
The Germans may make up some fantastic words with way too many letters, but Shambles just makes up way too many letters. Garrulous dolt.
 
Circumloquaciousness

If it's not yet a properly worded word it should be. It's mostly word with only a light smattering of letter excess - rather tastefully done lettery excess I'd say. But I would say what I would say wouldn't I.
 
spudgun said:
Portmanteau
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^ ace word 'cos it brings back memories.

My aunt always had one and called it so too, despite being a lowly commoner like myself. She was a Matron/Sister in A & E. I have another aunt who was a Consultant Doctor in A & E before she retired. Dunno if she had one, but she was more posh and didn't get sacked for nicking an old aluminium jug that was gonna get dumped, like the Matron one did.
 
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