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If you have the right kind of friends you can play "Who knows the most obscure word?". Everyone picks a word from memory, check each word's position (We used t
by te_platt 12y ago
If you have the right kind of friends you can play "Who knows the most obscure word?". Everyone picks a word from memory, check each word's position (We used to use google ngrams, but this would work well.), whoever gets the least common word wins that round, repeat until it's not fun anymore. That's how I learned defenestrate, obsequious, and a few other words.
- pdpi 12y agoFirst word I tried wasn't even present in the list (equivocate). How do you score that?
- te_platt 12y agoEquivocate came up in https://books.google.com/ngrams https://books.google.com/ngrams. Looks like the linked tool isn't quite up for it after all.
- sdsykes 12y ago"Kajagoogoo" is the 96,714th most common word in the English language.
- HeyLaughingBoy 12y agoThat's cuz it's so shy...
- Terr_ 12y agoI love "sesquipedalian", because it's so self-referential.
- vorg 12y agoI love "non-self-referential" because if I use it enough times with all the correct stresses and pauses, I can build a computer.