Lieu. Lieu has four letters, yet only one is a consonant.
Possess. Four times the s in five times the space. Not a bad deal.
Amalgam. Is there a word that means "a word that evokes its own concept without explanation"? If there is, please use it to describe this word.
Ergo. The perfect word to add that extra dash of pretentiousness to your speech.
Banana. Three different letters, used once, twice, and thrice.
Pharaoh. Admit it. Whenever you write this word you hear "Fair-ay-oh".
Karaoke. I can only assume that we English-speakers have slaughtered the pronunciation. But it endures.
Thing. I will allow English majors to contest the usefulness of "stuff", but "things" is a holy word.
Deus ex machina. The phrase evokes imagery of some sort of steampunk gears birthing a deity. Of flames.
The pharaoh thing is true. And whenever I type "karaoke," I think, "kair-ay-o-kee." :P What does "Deus ex machina" mean?
ReplyDeleteLook it up. It's a more standard Latin phrase, especially in film and literature.
ReplyDeleteI tried. It wouldn't translate.
ReplyDeleteLook up the phrase. It's extraordinarily common.
ReplyDeleteFound it! So, it's like every episode of Fairly Oddparents and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch ever aired?
ReplyDeleteI prefer to think of it more like Gandalf coming back from the dead just to save everything.
ReplyDeleteOr when Harry Potter "dies" for a minute, and he sees Dumbledore and Dumbledore explains everything. Or that bit with the Elder Wand.
ReplyDeleteOr when Athena visits Telemachus to give him all the answers. I never think of "Fair-ay-oh" when I write Pharaoh. I just see a guy with a weird thing coming out of his throat and a cool hat.
ReplyDeleteWhy the thing coming out of his throat?
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