Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

Saturday, August 8, 2015

How do you even prounounce these words ?????

There is one word in particular that I have always had trouble prounouncing - "Suite".

Is it "Sweet" or "Soot" or ?? and my obviously incorrect pronunciation ( a hash of sweet/soot and please don't ask how many to mess that up :D)  has got me many funny looks.

So I decided to look it up and along with it look up a few more of the "funny" ones and write up the phonetic way of prounouncing the words.

1. Suite - Yup it is "Sweet" and not "Soot" or my mish mash version

2. Scion - "Sion" ( easy for mumbaikers to remember).

- A young member of a rich and famous family.

3. Cynosure - "Sign-a-sure".

- A person or thing that is so good that it attracts a lot of attention.

4. Circumlocution - "Sir-come-lok-u-shun"

- An indirect way of saying something - especially something unpleasant.

5. Albeit - "All-be-it". 

Means - Although.

One of the few words which is actually a phonetic set up albeit with a missing L but we tend to mess it up.

6. Macabre - "Mah-Kaab". This is the English prounciation while the American sounds like " Muh-Kaab-Rahh."

- Used to describe something strange and unpleasant because it is connected with death or violence.


Please add on or send me words to add on.


Thursday, April 9, 2015

You would not believe such words exist - Part 1 !!!

While searching for the meaning of a word that I now forget, found the first word in the list below and that sparked my interest about finding weird and wonderful words that describe events/things/activities/phobias that one would not believe existed. 

What marvelous things exist and we know so little about so many of them.

Here goes and have fun trying to pronounce some of them. Please add to the list in the comments section or send me a message so I can add them to Part 2 and more.
 
Batrachomyomachy: A military engagement between frogs and mice
  
Batrachophagous : A person who eats frogs
 

Arachibutyrophobia: One having fear about peanut butter sticking to the mouth roof
 

Automatonophobia: One having fear about dummies, animatronic creatures, statues of wax
 

Autotonsorialist: A person who cuts his own hair
 

Automysophobia: Fear of getting dirty
 

Caesaropapism: Secular ruler having control of the church
 

Cheiloproclitic: One who is attracted to lips
 

Quomodocunquize: Making money in any possible way
 

Venustraphobia: or Caligynephobia : Being scared of beautiful women