Words That You Find Amusing, Bemusing or Just Plainly Entertaining

[Shak]

Words are the mainstay of chat rooms and Forums, not to mention the additional emojis.
Here are a few examples of words I personally find amusing, bemusing and plainly entertaining:
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Bear and bare - amusingly misused in many circumstances giving rise to humorous imagery.
There, their and they're - … as he 'pats the heads of the transgressors'.
You're and your - probably the most misused of homophones in chat.
Bizarre and bazaar - another homophone but with entirely different meanings.
Vulnerable - yes, there is an l between the u and the n, and IT IS NOT silent! However, the Media seem to think that they can pronounce the word without the l now. I wonder why this is becoming 'pandemic'!
Sophisticated - spelt with a ph and not an f! As is philosophical, only twice.
Circumloquacious - I put this in for obvious reasons.
Peripatetic - ?homophone of 'very pathetic' (amusing).
Misspelling - one that is often misspelled. Misspelt is also acceptable.
Accommodation - apparently one of the most misspelled words.
Rhythm, mischievous and pronunciation seem to pose problems too.
And for good measure, here are the three LONGEST words in the English dictionary:
Antidisestablishmentarianism.
Floccinaucinihilipilification.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
These words alone are often longer than sentences posted in chat rooms.
The Chat rooms and Forums are an endless source and I am sure you all have your own personal favourites.
Which reminds me that we do have u's in words ending in our.

P.S. Forums have an in-built spellchecker, so there really is NO excuse for misspelling in them!

Mispronunciation is one of the most mispronounced words.

 

[Poco_Loco]

Discombobulate - It's beautiful < 3

 

[megs233]

combustion

 

[Moriarty]

Mispronunciation is one of the most mispronounced words.

Simply because it should never be pronounced
Otherwise one is simply telling people they can't spell. which isn't productive

 

[GJ14]

Does a word you can’t stand count?!
If so.... moist

argh can hardly write it !

 

[WickedPerdition]

"Plurality" I have trouble saying that word. plural, no bother, but plurality, bit tricky.

 

[WickedPerdition]

I wonder how you pronounce the word VULNERABLE. With a silent first 'l' is my bet.
It is, regrettably, now becoming commonplace for this to be the case nowadays.
Are we breeding a country full of ignoramus. It does appear so.

 

[Clarity]

flip flop!

 

[WickedPerdition]

flip flop!

I hate to mention this but flip flop is two words and not even hyphenated.

 

[Clarity]

flipflops hows that for you ?

 

[Clarity]

I hate to mention this but flip flop is two words and not even hyphenated.

and you didn't hate to mention it you took great delight in it

 

[WickedPerdition]

and you didn't hate to mention it you took great delight in it

Yes. Alright. I did, if truth be told.

 

[Wojcik]

I'm not sure about amusing, but i find using the words effect and affect terrifying to use. I always get the two mixed up.

 

[Bad_Influence]

I'm not sure about amusing, but i find using the words effect and affect terrifying to use. I always get the two mixed up.

You can AFFECT something to good EFFECT.

I hope that clears it up for you.

 

[Jo_King]

I wonder how you pronounce the word VULNERABLE. With a silent first 'l' is my bet.
It is, regrettably, now becoming commonplace for this to be the case nowadays.
Are we breeding a country full of ignoramus. It does appear so.

Very Sherlock Holmes of you, yes, i do pronounce it "vunerable", comes of being uneducated. not my fault, went to a bad school, staffed by bad teachers, bad job all round. definitely don't speak with a received pronunciation accent, more's the pity, envy those that do.

 

[WickedPerdition]

Very Sherlock Holmes of you, yes, i do pronounce it "vunerable", comes of being uneducated. not my fault, went to a bad school, staffed by bad teachers, bad job all round. definitely don't speak with a received pronunciation accent, more's the pity, envy those that do.

No offence intended. I was just curious.
Surely, this can only be a result of either poor spelling OR frequent mispronunciation leading others to follow suit?

 

[WickedPerdition]

The word INEFFABLE is, I think, superb. It is, quite ironically, something that cannot be expressed in words.
It could, initially, be seen as a profanity, for obvious reasons.
I was prompted by watching Good Omens on Prime Video. It is a word not seen often enough in general usage.
It gives me great pleasure to give it momentary revival.

 

[smeagolsloincloth]

Gongoozler

 

[quietfem]

race car is race is the is thge same backwards

 

[WickedPerdition]

race car is race is the is thge same backwards

You have opened up a different category of wordplay there. Namely, palindromes.
There are many palindromic words but they tend to be of short length. The longest in the English language is tattarrattat from James Joyce's 'Ulysses'.
Wassamassaw and Malayalam are the longest place name palindromes, I believe.
But the most commonly accessed palindromes are sentences such as: Able was I ere I saw Elba; Madam, I'm Adam, and A nut for a jar of tuna.
There are some complex (alleged) palindromic sentences and phrases but personally I don't think they are genuine palindromes because they either use abbreviations or lack comprehension, in most instances.
I appreciate your contribution as it is relevant to word formation and wordplay, either by accident or deliberate.