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List of unusual words
dhenderson
Sunnyvale, CA
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2010/05/17 - 6:27pm

Here's an interesting (to me, anyway) list of unusual words that might be a challenge to work into daily conversation, e.g. "I suffer not from colposinquanonia; I have a profound appreciation for the callipygean quite as much as the bathykolpian form."

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

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