[Graham]

My favoutrite words are Australian place names. Sadly unless you can hear them pronounced correctly in proper strine they may be lost on many posters here. Have a go anyway:

Gulargambone,
Coonabarabran,
Wooloomooloo,
Murrurundi,
Gnowangerup,
Wujal Wujal,
Coolaburragundy,
Oodnadatta

I haven't watched The Simpsons in years, but one joke that I occasionally recall is the Australian man saying 'Frog? At's a funny name. Ida called it a chazwozza.'

There's something very true about that joke.

Woodworking has some unusual words, like spelching and chamfer.

[PenitentWoman]

I'm expanding my vocabulary by learning toddler-speak, which is a precious variety of English.  Hope you don't mind if I share my daughter's favorite words/phrases.

Kee-  kitty

Nooo!  - snow!  (You could assume her pronunciation was a clever way of indicating she would prefer to move to Florida, but she is typically pointing out the window and proclaiming it gleefully)

Wee me-   read me (this book)

Nam- lamb (or possibly just the given name to a particular stuffed lamb. We would have to encounter a different lamb to be sure)

Izbeebee-  it's a baby??

Sooz- shoes


Mama, no, byebye, and ball are pronounced perfectly! :)

[Thursday]

That was truly halarious. read that in a taxi and was busting a gut.

But back to favorite words.

Admonish, as in admonish the sinner.

Admonish: to express warning or disapproval to, especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner

Has anyone admonished anyone recently?

[Kazimierz]

Pusillaminous

lugubrious

fissiparious


As for Aussie possibilities

Didjubringabeeralong....from a novel by Terry Pratchett  :dancing:

[jen51]

I'd say I've had to look up about 60% of the words people posted on this thread. I need to grow my vocabulary, obviously.

For those of you posting what seem to be to common folk obscure words, do you actually use those words when you're talking to people? Or do you just like them because they're different? Just curious.