Or is the word plinth funny?

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I can’t explain why, but I’ve always found the word plinth deeply funny. When we were organising the kitchen, I kept sniggering whoever we talked about fitting the units.
I also laugh at crayon.
Does anyone else have words that make them smirk?

You're not wrong OP.

No other words to add, but I've been nodding my way down all the posts.

I remember having to write out words you found funny as part of English homework at primary school. My teacher couldn't understand why I found 'ripple' funny, but it's still one of those words to me. Same with nipple.
Also for some reason I struggled to keep a straight face during our wedding vows at the word 'impediment.' It makes me think of feet. I know I'm crazy

Fulcrum

Vestibule.

I love the words "oblong" and "parallelogram".

The two worst words, especially when said together are "moist" "gusset"...heave

@DottieLottie1 you are right! I did feel like it was something to do with a cartoon in my dim and distant past

Great thread, many giggles!!
I’m voting for moist, flange (can’t ever say that out loud😁) and flaccid... a word never used for anything to do with females..

Oooh, also can’t say ‘gusset’ without smirking!

I've always had a problem with the word 'booth'. I don't know why, it's just a bit nauseating.

Macaroon makes me laugh out load....

Is that you Miranda?

The words 'flaccid' and 'plunge' always make me laugh.

Another one for pith but also myth.

Agreed that 'purchase' is prissy!

The word 'spectacle' always tickles me, as does the name Geoffrey. No idea why

This thread desperately needs to be read out loud by Rowan Atkinson!

Another vote for flange

Yay to ‘plunge’😁

I’ve not listened to I’m sorry I haven’t a clue for years, not since Humphrey Littleton died. I miss Mornington Crescent. I used to play it with my BIL.
None of the words have any innuendo, they just sound funny for reasons I can’t explain. Gusset is funny, but again not in a ‘schoolboy’ way, it’s just funny. Mauve is also hilarious...

Shrubbery

The more you say it, the funnier it sounds...

Yes! Rowan Atkinson would say them in the right way to make me wee myself. I remember Michael Palin saying crayon in one of the Monty Python sketches, in a way that stayed with me.

Shrubbery! Yes!

I find the word holdall funny as it reminds me of Hodor (GoT), so that’s what it has become in our house.

Bugle

Flange definitely wins this thread

'Structure'.

Only because we had a neighbour at a previous house who didn't like our new fence, and used to refer to it as our 'structure', overly enunciated. Still has me in hysterics.

My late DF had an elderly maiden aunt who used to refer to certain buildings as 'mighty erections'.

He couldn't figure out a way to explain to her that the meaning of that word had evolved ... so he just didn't. But we now all refer to large/significant building (or indeed any 'structure' ) as 'mighty erections'.