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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20166 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Mon Apr 11, 2016 5:47 pm | |
| - Supercilious
- Restive
- Niggardly
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_Howard Admin
Posts : 8734 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 79 Location : California
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Mon Apr 11, 2016 9:13 pm | |
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- Noisome
- Fungible
- Crapulous <ba-da-bing>
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20166 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Mon May 30, 2016 1:26 am | |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20166 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Wed Jun 15, 2016 2:53 pm | |
| - ravenous - nothing to do with ravens... or ravines
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20166 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Fri Jun 17, 2016 11:10 am | |
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_Howard Admin
Posts : 8734 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 79 Location : California
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Fri Jun 17, 2016 12:23 pm | |
| Why is this not a cross between a peccary and an armadillo? |
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Jenni Admin
Posts : 1448 Join date : 2013-01-16 Location : Jackson, MS
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Sat Jun 18, 2016 4:27 pm | |
| driveway parkway
And for no particular reason I hate the word moist. |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20166 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Sat Jun 18, 2016 4:37 pm | |
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Jenni Admin
Posts : 1448 Join date : 2013-01-16 Location : Jackson, MS
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Sat Jun 18, 2016 4:42 pm | |
| Wow. I don't think of sex I think hot, rashy, uncomfortable. But that's after thinking, the adverse reaction is very instant. |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20166 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:34 am | |
| - debride - nothing to do with weddings
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20166 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Sun Jul 17, 2016 10:42 am | |
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- injurious - nothing to do with a jury
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_Howard Admin
Posts : 8734 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 79 Location : California
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Sun Jul 17, 2016 4:19 pm | |
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- furuncle - has nothing to do with your parent's brother; what he wears or how hairy he is
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20166 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Mon Jul 18, 2016 11:59 am | |
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- avuncular - of or like an avuncule?
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20166 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Mon Jul 18, 2016 12:05 pm | |
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_Howard Admin
Posts : 8734 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 79 Location : California
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Mon Jul 18, 2016 12:12 pm | |
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- carbuncle - has nothing to do with your parent's brother's diet
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_Howard Admin
Posts : 8734 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 79 Location : California
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:25 pm | |
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- prandial should be a baby buggy
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20166 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Mon Jul 18, 2016 9:47 pm | |
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- parsimonious - similar to a persimmon
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_Howard Admin
Posts : 8734 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 79 Location : California
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Mon Jul 18, 2016 9:53 pm | |
| Parsimonious is the taste of a persimmon.
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20166 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:59 am | |
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_Howard Admin
Posts : 8734 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 79 Location : California
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Sun Jul 24, 2016 1:55 pm | |
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- geoduck - it should have feathers.
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20166 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Sun Jul 24, 2016 4:36 pm | |
| And be slimy.
Oh wait. They are. |
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Jenni Admin
Posts : 1448 Join date : 2013-01-16 Location : Jackson, MS
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Wed Jul 27, 2016 2:35 pm | |
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_Howard Admin
Posts : 8734 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 79 Location : California
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Wed Jul 27, 2016 3:21 pm | |
| Formication is a new one for me. Never heard the word before.
delight - to make dark? |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20166 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Wed Jul 27, 2016 3:26 pm | |
| "Delight Switch - pull lever down to make dark" |
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_Howard Admin
Posts : 8734 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 79 Location : California
| Subject: Re: Words That Don't Mean What It Sounds Like They SHOULD Mean Fri Aug 05, 2016 10:15 pm | |
| To make a bully nice, you would demean him. The worse of two bullies would be demeanor one (probably should be in the puns thread). |
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