"of"
It's just odd that you're supposed to say it like it rhymes with "love". It's also almost always with other words, so by itself it truly looks suspicious.
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I dunno if it's the weirdest but "pronunciation" is pretty weird.
Why is it "pronUnciation" but "pronOUnce"?
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Most of the examples here are perfectly cromulent words.
"Though"
The first two letters don't sound like themselves, and the last three are silent. The word is 83% lies.
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Glossolalia
Awkward is spelled awkwardly.
I'm a big fan of the following weird words:
Indubitably
Discombobulated
Colonel. Why is it pronounced like kernal?
Is this universal or are there places where they pronounce it closer to its spelling?
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Counterpoint - Bureaucracy.
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Onomatopoeia - the word for making a word for a sound
Pick any of them, and repeat it over and over again. It'll quickly become the weirdest word in the language, at least for a while.
I'm pretty sure "Purple" stops making sense faster than others. Just wtf? Pur-pull. Prrr-plll. What is wrong with people?
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Hip.
Bowl
This is called "semantic satiation" which are both pleasingly weird words now that I think about it...
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"Sphere"
That pronunciation ... like WTF ... did word inventors just figure we had totally exhausted the sound combinations that we could splice together?!
Sounds like the linguists got drunk.
"No no no no no... iss'not a ball, issa sphhhere"
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Anything that shows the awful inconsistency in phonetics.
Epicaricacy. We chose to use a German loanword instead.
Or words that came from fiction like cromulent and thagomizer.
For others about to look up the word:
Epicaricacy is Rejoicing at or derivation of pleasure from the misfortunes of others
In its defence
Schadenfraude is a really fun word to say.
Absolutely, certainly when shouting with a harsh voice.
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"Weirdest"
Sardoodledom