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humanodon  ·  4203 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Illustrations of Unusual and Rarely Spoken Words

Some words, like this one kind of make me scratch my head. I would guess that an ultracrepidarian is someone unlikely to know the word "ultracrepidarian." In a somewhat related way, a person with a rhotacism is unlikely to be able to say, "rhotacism." The word "abbreviation" is long. The word "diarrhea" has been chosen by non-English speakers as a beautiful sounding word. There is an unintentional . . . not cruelty, but perhaps a contrariness in certain words where it makes me wonder why that word happened to be the one chosen for what it describes.

I realize that these words are not connected in the same way or analogous to each other. I wish I had a word to describe what I'm trying to say!