Words that don't exist

[jackfaire]

ELECTRONICAL is not a freaking word.

Electronic is a word

Electrical is a word

ELECTRONICAL IS NOT A BLOODY WORD!!

[bunnyboy]

Neither is Irregardless (it's the word minus the ir- you're thinking of)

The word picnic comes from French Pique (to nibble) Nique (nonsense-rhyme)

and yes the balls on a brass monkey that it's close enough to freeze off ARE the very same balls Lance Armstrong lost one of.

[Nyoibo]

and yes the balls on a brass monkey that it's close enough to freeze off ARE the very same balls Lance Armstrong lost one of.

Huh? I was under the impression that that saying came from old naval warfare days, cannon balls were kept in racks called brass monkeys and when the weather was cold enough the contraction of the metal would make the cannon balls fall off.

[Slytovhand]

Huh? I was under the impression that that saying came from old naval warfare days, cannon balls were kept in racks called brass monkeys and when the weather was cold enough the contraction of the metal would make the cannon balls fall off.

Snopes indicates that's unlikely. IIRC, Firstly, there are no references to the rack being called a 'Brass Monkey', secondly, it's a bloody stupid place to put them, cos they'll go rolling around anyway, and thirdly - they didn't!


Disorientated - (FTR, I just did a Google, define: - no hits! ) The correct word is 'disoriented'!

[XCashier]

Nucular. (It's nuclear!)

[DrFaroohk]

Jewlery!

Bronichal!

Vice-A-Versa!

Cock-a-roach!

[Fryk]

Oh sweet, chainsaw-juggling Tchernabog I hate crap like that!!! The one that used to really drive me up a wall was how people living around New Orleans used to pronounce "mayonnaise".

Mai-nezzz. GRAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Even if you're trying to be pseudo-french, there'd be an 'o' in there.

[AdminAssistant]

Mai-nezzz. GRAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Even if you're trying to be pseudo-french, there'd be an 'o' in there.

That's how I say it. I'm Southern, we run words together - it's a regional accent thing.

[joe hx]

Those are all perfectly cromulent words!

Strange new words and word pronunciations don't bother me. I mean, we ain't been talking in this here style of English since the beginning of time!!

[Fryk]

Don't you think that's totally spam? It's lubricated! Well, I'm phasing :: )

[Bloodsoul]

Ain't it the truth, though?

[protege]

That's how I say it. I'm Southern, we run words together - it's a regional accent thing.

Not just the Southerners do that... Many people in the North do that too I've posted the link to "Pittsburghese" many times on CS. Most of that dialect came about, simply because Pittsburgh literally was a "melting pot" of different cultures and languages. But, if I hear one more local call the town "Picksburg," I'm going to fucking hit them

[AdminAssistant]

I have a friend from Pitt! Yeah, we joke about our various regionalisms all the time - HYD!

[Talon]

Truthiness! [/colbert]

[Wingates_Hellsing]

Truthiness! [/colbert]

Which brings us to tonight's word: copywright

Anywhoo (there's one I use all the time), there's no greater a non-word used as a word in all of history than lol.

When someone nearby utters the phrase "I lolled so hard at that"... I want to stab them in the soul...