{"id":3685,"date":"2010-05-19T23:02:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T03:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2015-03-18T23:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:24:36","slug":"aside-unusual-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/aside-unusual-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside: Unusual Words?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am unable to resist &#8220;obscure words&#8221; lists, and generally most of the words on them are actually familiar to me. Not so with <a href=\"http:\/\/users.tinyonline.co.uk\/gswithenbank\/unuwords.htm\">this list<\/a>, on which I knew these ones from prior encounter: <em>agraffe<\/em>, <em>bathykolpian<\/em>, <em>blandiloquent<\/em>, <em>callipygean<\/em>, <em>defenestrate<\/em>, <em>mumpsimus<\/em>, <em>slubberdegullion<\/em>, and <em>yclept<\/em>. These, while I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen them before, were obvious in their meaning from their components: <em>autohagiographer<\/em>, <em>autotonsorialist<\/em>, <em>batrachophagous<\/em>, <em>cruciverbalist<\/em>, <em>dephlogisticate<\/em>, <em>interfenestration<\/em>, and <em>preantepenultimate<\/em>. And the rest were new to me. I think the most fun one to say, although rarely called for, would be &#8220;<em>zenzizenzizenzic<\/em>&#8220;, the one with the most fun definition is &#8220;<em>sphallolalia<\/em>&#8220;, and the one least likely to come up in my life is &#8220;<em>mallemaroking<\/em>&#8220;. There are several, though, that I could easily see coming up in my life, not least of which are &#8220;<em>gambrinous<\/em>&#8220;, &#8220;<em>philosophunculist<\/em>&#8220;, and &#8220;<em>ultracrepidarian<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I am unable to resist &#8220;obscure words&#8221; lists, and generally most of the words on them are actually familiar to me. Not so with this list, on which I knew these ones from prior encounter: agraffe, bathykolpian, blandiloquent, callipygean, defenestrate, mumpsimus, slubberdegullion, and yclept. These, while I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen them before, were obvious in their meaning from&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/aside-unusual-words\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[331,16],"tags":[50,279],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-aside","category-one-and-done","tag-deep-geekery","tag-language","post_format-post-format-aside","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-Xr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}