Words that don't exist in English:

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Alot
Eachother
Ect
Inbetween
Infront
Non
Thankyou
Que
Wether

Please feel free to add your own.

@IpanemaPeaHen

Saudade (Brazilian Portuguese) an intense sadness or longing, kind of melancholy.

It's also in Portuguese Portuguese. A lovely concept. Nostalgia is the closest thing in English, I suppose, but it's not the kind of jolly, flag-waving nostalgia the English generally go in for.

Anyway, in the spirit of the thread, "aswell" is not a word, and when I see it, I hear it with a hard "s" - "a swell".

I wish there was a word for a ‘present’ that someone gives pretending to be generous but really just wanting to get rid of an unwanted item.

@Thefartingsofaofdenmarkstreet

I love wallah!

Why?! It's hideous! It's meant to be "voila' which is French.

@Andante57

I wish there was a word for a ‘present’ that someone gives pretending to be generous but really just wanting to get rid of an unwanted item.

That’s called re-gifting. Although it could be argued that’s a made up word too.

Non is a word, or a prefix at least and is in front of hundreds of words.

Pomped

From Chinese

姗姗 (shanshan) the sound of a woman walking in a shuffly way

抱不平 (bao buping) to be offended on behalf of somebody else

白左 (baizuo) a self-important, moralistic Western leftist

@Sparklfairy yes, limbo works but doesn’t imply the intense discomfort.

Or maybe I just intensely dislike being in limbo.

@Andante57

I wish there was a word for a ‘present’ that someone gives pretending to be generous but really just wanting to get rid of an unwanted item.

Isn't that a white elephant?

I thought wallah was a real word from India. I'm sure I've seen it in books about the British Raj - a servant who makes the tea referred to as the tea wallah for instance.

Dinning.

As in Dinning Table Needs Gone.

@TranquilityofSolitude

Not quite where you started, but I want a word for my daughter's MIL. We're friends and live around the corner from each other, so often need to introduce the other to someone and there's just no good word for our relationship. We end up saying "our children are married to each other", which feels a bit inadequate.

I think Russian has a word for this, but it might only work when there are grandchildren in common.

Hiraeth in Welsh has no direct English translation. It's like a deep longing and want for home (Wales)

That's exactly what a wallah is @MrsAvocet and I use it all the time.
I love it! Did the person above really mean wallah or voilà?

Definately.

@MrsAvocet

I thought wallah was a real word from India. I'm sure I've seen it in books about the British Raj - a servant who makes the tea referred to as the tea wallah for instance.

It is. But that's not how most people are using it. They are misspelling Voilà. But not everyone has had a decent education so it's not always their fault.

The wallah was the servant. The chah wallah made the cha (tea), the punkah wallah gently raised and lowered the big fan, the punka/punkah, in the corner of the room to make a breeze and I think the dhobi wallah did the washing, and now I'll have to look them all up. Nice thread.

Particuly

Pecularly

Febry

Libry

The habitual use of ect rather than etc really bothers me - it's not even an auto correct

白左 (baizuo) a self-important, moralistic Western leftist

OMG the Chinese invented a word for Little Owen Jones?

@Standrewsschool

Que really annoys me. I’ve seen it a lot recently.

Took me a while to figure this one out.

Was pronouncing it Kay similar to the spanish way

@IpanemaPeaHen

Saudade (Brazilian Portuguese) an intense sadness or longing, kind of melancholy.

Isn't that nostalgia?

Agujetas: muscular pain that comes specifically from exercise. As in 'Tengo (I have) agujetas'
From Spanish

English would benefit from an impersonal version of the word ‘you’, to be used when speaking to someone who is acting as the representative of an organisation. For example ; when a business has messed up and a customer wants to complain about the service without seeming to personally blame the individual they are speaking to.

@SpangoDweller what is wallah used for?