FANCY WORDS you think everyone should know.

recalcitrant - difficult to correct (from an attitude perspective).
obtuse - not willing to understand (like being thick).
BT - short for Bill Tracy (my nickname that comes from how I used my initials on architectural drawings....)

 

I finally understand that scene in The Shawshank Redemption!

"How could you be so obtuse...?"

 

I did a special senior project on coelacanth eggs in college.

I found the caloric content of them using bomb-calorimetry.

The world is a safer place.

 

nope, sorry

I prefer,

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!

 

That sentence may cover every possible sound represented by the "-ough-" combination of letters in the English language! I could be wrong, though...

To me, it is a clear sign of a person who is both educated and intelligent when that person has a broad vocabulary but knows when not to use it.

 

There is only one word in the English language that is 9 letters and only 1 vowel. Any guesses?
BT

 

It would require me to draw on all my internal powers and abilities, all my strenghts to answer that.


Oh, and Google, fer shure.

 

True, but I learnt it in camp.
BT

 

Plethora and/or myriad.

 

The Three Amigos!!

Jefe: I have put many beautiful pinatas in the storeroom, each of them filled with little suprises.
El Guapo: Many pinatas?
Jefe: Oh yes, many!
El Guapo: Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?
Jefe: A what?
El Guapo: A *plethora*.
Jefe: Oh yes, you have a plethora.
El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?
Jefe: Why, El Guapo?
El Guapo: Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has *no idea* what it means to have a plethora.
Jefe: Forgive me, El Guapo. I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education. But could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?

 

For some reason I liked this word (after looking it up years ago!).
vicissitude

Main Entry: vi·cis·si·tude
Pronunciation: \və-ˈsi-sə-ˌtüd, vī-, -ˌtyüd\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French, from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim in turn, from vicis change, alternation — more at week
Date: circa 1576
1 a: the quality or state of being changeable : mutability b: natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs
2 a: a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition <the vicissitudes of daily life> b: a difficulty or hardship attendant on a way of life, a career, or a course of action and usually beyond one's control c: alternating change

 

Here is one that is particularly germane to this board: Inamorata.

Inamorata: Pronunciation: \i-&#716;na-m&#601;-&#712;rä-t&#601;\ Function: noun Etymology: Italian innamorata, from feminine of innamorato, past participle of innamorare to inspire with love, from in- (from Latin) + amore love, from Latin amor — more at amorous Date: 1651

Inamorata: a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations

We named the 442 "Inamorata" as my wife calls it "the other woman," or "the redhead."

Shiny Side Up!
Bill

 

....Slubberdegullion(on squeaky feet)?

 

Stewardesses. Hows that for a slow response?

Here's a favorite:

defenestrate

verb
throw through or out of the window; "The rebels stormed the palace and defenestrated the President"

 

"conflagration"

synonym for fire

 

"Do you theenk sheee weel open up jheerr flower to you El Guapo? "

"Jes, or I will kill jhher!"

 

Sp: Strengths

 

I am currently trying to work the word codswallop into every conversation with a certain coworker, and seeing how long it takes him to use it for himself...

 

It's not a fancy word but one that I hear people pronounce incorrectly almost daily. Nuclear..... there is only one U and it is NOT pronounced Nook-you-lar.

More of a pet peeve than a fancy word.

 

Who is that? Older brother in Romeo & Juliet?

 

Out side of Texas, Alabama and SC, "yes sir" and "no sir" seem to be too fancy for most kids to know.