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Word's the point in that?
BillieTheBot
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Language - it's a good thing, but some of it is no use at all. What do you believe is the most pointless word in the English language?
Answering my own question - myrrh. I was taught at the age of six what this word meant and how to spell it. And I've never needed to spell it since or use it in a sentence. Has anyone ever had to use the word 'myrrh' in any sentence since you were seven years old? I seriously doubt it. "Myrrh" - the most pointless word in the English language.
What's your nomination?
Answering my own question - myrrh. I was taught at the age of six what this word meant and how to spell it. And I've never needed to spell it since or use it in a sentence. Has anyone ever had to use the word 'myrrh' in any sentence since you were seven years old? I seriously doubt it. "Myrrh" - the most pointless word in the English language.
What's your nomination?
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Oh learned something new. I thought it was simply just a sound spelled out. :thumb:
A neighbor whose house is burning down.
It'll be used (the word, as well as the substance) in the incense industry.
yes, and by the vast majority of primary school teachers.
and priests.
those welsh really go on..
I thought this was about the English language. And isn't that a place name?
and the old ladies that help in schools/other nativity places.
And those of us who played Balthazaar in said nativity.
I was Casper.
So close. :crazyeyes
Depends, in everyday use it is but there are medical terms that have 90 letters long.
Stupidest word has to be Lisp. No-one with a lisp can say it. How fucking harsh was making that word?
Thats why its so funny. High five to the inventor of that one!
The Mail.
Good god, that word haunts me....
My sad act deputy head of year made us memorize that word on our very first English lesson with him in Year 8. We learnt it, ow to spell it and its meaning. Then, for the next 2 years, he would suddenly halfway through a lesson - even if he was halfway through reading something! - just point at someone and ask them to spell it, or its meaning. We lived in fear of that word.
Don't ask me what it means now though
lmao, I saw that one coming
let him remain in a state of having built a circular wall by the light of a crescent moon.
And that's one word.
My least favourite English words... hmm. Probably Coldplay.
Moist pointless word ever, schoenobatic, which is the adjective pertaining to tight-rope walking. Who the fuck in the history of mankind has ever used that word?
Actually that would be a compound word, making it, in fact, one word. It is an incorrect compound word, but one all the same.
I get bored at work and subscribed to Merriem Websters word of the day. They have some real fun ones. My favorite being... (Yes, I do save them)
The Word of the Day for October 28 is:
valetudinarian \val-uh-too-duh-NAIR-ee-un\ noun
: a person of a weak or sickly constitution; especially : one whose chief concern is being or becoming a chronic invalid
And bumbershoot is an umbrella.
nice isnt a word so im told so it must be pretty stupid when people say that.