Reply to: Words that sound wrong

[Platypus]

effulgent

doesn't sound right for its definition: 'shining forth brilliantly; radiant'

[Doggy Styles]

Well, it's probably to do with the fact that you're not going to hang around and think of something clever, just quickly scribble a load of letters in a random order before barging into the bogs with your kaks around your ankles...

Perhaps he scribbled it so quickly, it just LOOKED like 'diarrhoea'. I wonder how he meant to spell it?

[Julius Caesar]

A good agent.

Oh sorry, wrong thread.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Flange

[hyperD]

Whoever invented diarrhoea, why did they spell it like that?

Well, it's probably to do with the fact that you're not going to hang around and think of something clever, just quickly scribble a load of letters in a random order before barging into the bogs with your kaks around your ankles...

[northernladuk]

An hotel.

That definitely doesn't sound right and yet I see it everywhere in the press and on the BBC. The practice was probably invented by a daft pedant somewhere. I refuse to use it.

Rant over, I need an holiday...

Probably inveted somewhere around Yorkshire as An 'otel and an 'oliday sounds fine t'me.

[Doggy Styles]

An hotel.

That definitely doesn't sound right and yet I see it everywhere in the press and on the BBC. The practice was probably invented by a daft pedant somewhere. I refuse to use it.

Rant over, I need an holiday...

[Doggy Styles]

Whoever invented diarrhoea, why did they spell it like that?

[Gibbon]

Oxymoron, how can two opposites be used to describe one thing!?

council worker ?

[BolshieBastard]

Oxymoron, how can two opposites be used to describe one thing!?

[scooterscot]

Wrong - it just does not sound right...

[Mich the Tester]

Onomatopoeia doesn’t sound like what it is.

[Spacecadet]

Awaiting

[Scary]

Albeit

[OwlHoot]

Paediatrician