How bout fluky?

Thank you Mr. Brazilian Dude. And I guess I was wrong about serendipity and happenstance, since serendipity doesn't seem to allow for negative eventualities. Happenstance does, but I have decided that it is not the best portmanteau word ever. It seems an unwieldy choice over 'chance,' and doesn't ju...

i like this word, seems like a less dippy way of saying serendipity, which always felt awkward to me. just looked up that word, and it comes from a story "The Three Princes of Serendip" (Horace Walpole). Serendip is Arabic for Sri Lanka, which all y'all smart folk probably knew already, bu...

hey, what is this "us"? quit othering me. but really, i don't mind. she ain't heavy, she's my other. tee hee. but my point was not to take anyone too seriously, seriously. and my question stands: what is semantically valuable in the words we hate? hate is not anathema to lexical quality or...

maybe i'm just a cheapskate-liberal (oxymoron? not me, the word) but what is it about these words that you hate? are words that we hate more or less valuable? my guess is more, since they would tend to be more expressive, at least in a personal, ideolectical, if that's a word, way. i hate the word '...

Thank you. I wonder about the English influence. The unvoiced affricate seems to pop up right often in strange places, i.e. "chree" (supra), which I hadn't thought of before, but seems to be part of my ideolect. In both cases (chree and porchmuf), we see a slide back, from the dental to th...

Here in south east VA there is a town called Portsmouth, which you can sometimes hear pronounced as "Porch-muf"
This pronunciation is pretty rare, and you hear it more in the rural areas than in Porchmuff itself.