The perfect word. It sounds and it is spelled in a way that can only be described as what it means — awkward. What other word could possibly be spelled with wkw in the middle of it?
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It’s a fever that sailors would sometimes get where they would see the ocean as a huge, rolling sea of green grass, and leap off the ship to run across it, and drown. Giles Tweet Pin It I enjoy the idea of confusion bestowed from a spiritual origin. Jared Tarbell Tweet Pin It Cwm, pronounced “koom.” Why? Because it is the only English word without a vowel. It means “valley.” Grand, isn’t it? Tim Nayar Tweet Pin It You can’t say it without smiling. Gather together your family and friends and have them say this magic word and you’ll be presented with a dozen smiling faces. Words that can do this are rare indeed. p.s. Its meaning has something to do with rocky debris found at the foot of a cliff, a [...] The word rolls from the front to the back of the mouth in its utterance, activating the entire mouth, tongue, and jaw. It begins with a slithering “sss” progresses to a wide-mouth “aaa” and and then strikes with a harsh “k” before slithering away. It would be onomatopoeic if it were a word involved [...] Swahili for traffic roundabout. I love it for the origin (Keep Left signs placed by the Colonial authorities) and the way it has become Africanized. There is a class of words (Ki is singular, Vi is plural) that fits and Swahili always adds a vowel at the end. Andy Carling Tweet Pin It Start with infinite, without end or limit. Now go to the other end of the spectrum. Still without limit, but so small, so close to being/meaning nothing, but still possessing some positive value: infinitessimal. Jay Steichmann Tweet Pin It It’s a place and a feeling. It suggests all things nefarious and yet within culture it is where we usually find hope for the future. People disappear there. Friendships are cemented. The Fall have a groovy song about it. It’s a slightly queasy-filled Murakami novel. Most people probably imagine the letters forming the shape [...] |
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