FANCY WORDS you think everyone should know.

Forte: pertaining to streangth or talent. pronounced 'fOrt' not 'fOrta' i know it's probably pedantic.

the pronunciation of 'fOrta' is in reference to a musical note.


my personal pet peve.

 

Nobody understood my stinking smut thread

 

I understood your corn smut and will go there now.

 

To pronounce them as "fawr-tey", or "fôrt-tay" is also considered correct. Both the one and two syllable pronunciations are considered standard.

 

That reminds me of a Family Guy clip....anyone know what I am talking about?

 

Embiggen

Crumulent

 

If you don't know what a clodpate is, you are a clodpate.

 

I know what you're talking about. Family guy is the best.

 

"Well, Lois, I find this food to be rather shallow and pedantic."

 

I've always found 'anile' and 'scrofulous' to be worth working into an insult or two.

 

I'm still amazed how many young people (in the US) don't know "Alfa Romeo".

Watch guys get angry when you ask "Are you rally homologated?"

Let's get egregiously abstruse ...

 

Peculiar

Secluded

 

you must have lived a secluded life because there's nothing peculiarly fancy about those words

 

The Superior Person's Book of Words is a great read...

-R

 

Ummmm...read below (from Dictionary.com)...

forte1  /fɔrt, foʊrt or, for 1, ˈfɔrteɪ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fawrt, fohrt or, for 1, fawr-tey] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. a strong point, as of a person; that in which one excels: I don't know what her forte is, but it's not music.
2. the stronger part of a sword blade, between the middle and the hilt (opposed to foible).


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[Origin: 1640–50; earlier fort < MF (see fort); disyllabic pron. by assoc. with forte2]


—Synonyms 1. talent, skill, excellence, strength, specialty; knack, bent.
—Pronunciation note In the sense of a person's strong point (He draws well, but sculpture is his forte ), the older and historical pronunciation of forte is the one-syllable /f&#596;rt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fawrt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation or /fo&#650;rt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fohrt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. The word is derived from the French word fort "strong." A two-syllable pronunciation /&#712;f&#596;rte&#618;/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fawr-tey] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation is increasingly heard, especially from younger educated speakers, perhaps owing to confusion with the musical term forte, pronounced in English as /&#712;f&#596;rte&#618;/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fawr-tey] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation and in Italian as /&#712;f&#596;rt&#603;/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fawr-te] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. Both the one- and two-syllable pronunciations of forte are now considered standard.

 

Myopic.

 

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

 

assuage
"these words cannot assuage the thirst for peace in your soul"

self-aggrandizing

"The primary purpose of the P&R section is often the self-aggrandizing of the right-wing poster over his proletarian opponents"

 

Badonkadonk [buh-donk-uh-donk] n. A big ol' juicy bootay.

ex. "Dayaaaam shoh-tee dat badonkadonk be stupid fly! How boutchoo lemme ride up on dat bumpa an smack dat monkey?"

 

crapalicious
purpletastic
crapperdoodle
fark
antidisestablishmentarianism*
gottapee


my pointless words+ one real one*

 

Holy Sh*t I really did LOL. Dont forget Sacrelicious.

 

defenestrate tr.v. de·fen·es·trat·ed, de·fen·es·trat·ing, de·fen·es·trates
To throw out of a window.

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[Back-formation from defenestration.]