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There's no medical term for what I've got.
But perhaps nothing speaks more clearly for the absurdities of English pronunciation than that the word for the study of pronunciation in English, orthoepy, can itself be pronounced two ways.
Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.
Klunk's another word for poo. Poo makes a klunk sound when it falls in our pee pots.
I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.
Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.
I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the voice, picking up a new key, in the treatment of the ritual chant, and overcoming vocal difficulties that lie in the words rather than in the music.
See, my strumpf is in my hair. Now, I don't know what strumpf means. It's just a term some brothas gave me.
Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident.
Noise: a stench in the ear.
I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.
What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?
Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump ...
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").
It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
I like that word," Pandora mused. "Strumpet. It sounds like a saucy musical instrument." "It
There was a long pause. "Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English."
"The word for what?"
"I just said I don't *know* it!
I fink it is a femuw. A femuw of a winowcowus ... A a-stinct winocowus.
When you can hear someone giving head but can't see them, it sounds terribly like a child eating spaghetti.
I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.
...habit of speaking in paragraphs.
The phlegamtic female is a weepy, bug-eyed, fat, lumpy, fleshy German. She looks like a sack of flour. She is born in order to become a mother-in-law. That is her whole ambition.
Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena.
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
... [T]he letters of the alphabet (two Cs, a large D; the combination of Y, S, and L) belong on an ophthalmologist's chart. For the Parisienne, luxury should never be spelled out.
The word within a word, unable to speak a word
Sconser n. A person who looks around while talking to you to see if there's anyone more interesting about.
contemptuous cough
Hear the meaning within the word.
Insomnia, from the Greek word meaning I can't fucking sleep!
Wilson has some fancy name for it, but
I call lit macanaccady. Anything I can't analyze in the eating
line I call macanaccady and anything wet that puzzles me I call
shallamagouslem.
It's called Seflish, which is fitting
Things that go bump in the brain.
Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say it does not sound in the smallest degree like German.
My mum refers to female genitalia as scones.
Guess what hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia means? Fear of long words. Isn't that the coolest?" - Kevin McGill in Madhattan Mystery
Weltschmerz, basically, is the depression we feel when bamboozlers, fanatics, manipulators, trolls, bigots, demagogues, fear-mongers, liars and prigs threaten to take over the world, and there's nothing, we think, we can do about it.
case with Cocodrie Bayou, which Solomon must have heard with a starting "p." Here is a list
What is the sound of one hand?
ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.
You snorted. And you call a dick a schlong.
There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about.
From nowhere, a word appears: Mesozoic. He can see the word, he can hear the word, but he can't reach the word. He can't attach anything to it. This is happening too much lately, this dissolution of meaning, the entries on his cherished wordlists drifting off into space.
In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars ...
IwantedtoshowmyuniformtomymomthismorningsoIwenttogetmytrashbagand-
Gibbering case of Oh, Shit! I believe that's a bona fide psychological term; if it isn't, it should be.
Serge's attention-deficit disorder was the first of many hyphens. Obsessive-compulsive, manic-depressive, anal-retentive, paranoid-schizophrenic. He was believed to be the only self-inflicted case of shaken-baby syndrome.
Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.
I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
He wanted to give her another word to say, something like luscious or whisper or strawberry. Hell, antidisestablishmentarianism would do it.
A linguist who specialised in the languages of incense and burnt offerings, of moths and radial cremations.
A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment.
SCHISMATRIX is a creeping sea-urchin of a book - spikey and odd. It isn't very elegant, and it lacks bilateral symmetry, but pieces of it break off inside people and stick with them for years.
Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.
Miss von Osterloh had looked through it once during an idle fifteen minutes and pronunce it "quite sophisticated," which veredict was her euphemism for "inhumanly boring.
Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.
I hate that word, by the way. Retarded. I
The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
An unpopular apres-garde filmmaker (Watt) either suffers a temporal lobe seizure and becomes mute or else is the victim of everyone else's delusion that his (Watt's) temporal lobe seizure has left him mute.
meinstein n. My son, the genius.
If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear - such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with.
Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.
I think my mate may be mentally retarded, either that or she has a severe inner ear imbalance.
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'
I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
He has a lower occipital proturbance!
that I - I have not 'heard' . . . What is it?
Actually just has a born tech-science wienie's congenital impatience with the referential murkiness and inelegance of verbal systems.
Vocabularian (n.) One who pays too much attention to words. In the past I have been accused by various parties of paying too much attention to words. Which is true, I suppose; but what else do I have to pay attention to? Vomiturient
The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea.
German reminded her of an old man hacking up phlegm.
As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen - at the same time all together.
I'm not entirely sure what your problem is, but I'm sure it's really hard to pronounce.
What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man.
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
This is certainly that kind of masterpiece, and a new name should be created for such an all-frequencies assault on the sensibilities. I propose the name blivit. This is a word which during my adolescence was defined by peers as two pounds of shit in a one-pound bag.
What is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?
Add one little bit on the end ... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else ... ? There ya go ... alright!
Yiddish is a cheerful language of not so happy people.
In every country is a word which attempts the sound of cats, to match an inisolable portrait in the clouds to a din in the air. But the constant noise is not an omen of music to come.
I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon
may shorten life.
All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life ...
The ear may be a more open organ than the eye when it comes to the pleasure of words.
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.
Westside Hochdeutsch mafia, biggest of the big, construction, savings and loans, untaxed billions stashed under an Alp someplace, technically Jewish but wants to be a Nazi, becomes exercised often to the point of violence at those who forget to spell his name with two n's. What's he to you?
My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds
When Frieda, Trude, Lucy, and I walked to work, the German children hooted at us: "Jewish swine!" In town, the shopkeepers would not even sell us a beer. I wrote to Mama that Osterburg was a friendly town.
...romantic weltschmerz, a state of feeling thought to be basically subversive yet in most cases, like 'beat' rebelliousness today, adolescent and harmless.
My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.