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Originally Said by ablethevoice
Borborygmus (n)
Background:
From the Greek word meaning "to rumble." Borborygmus is onomatopoeic – because it sounds, at least to the Ancient Greeks, just like the thing it describes.
Simply put:
The noises your stomach makes when you're hungry
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For the record, that's pronounced: bawr-b
uh-
rig-m
uhs.
It seems that it's still pretty onomatopoeic (YES, first-try spelling succeed!) in English. That's magical.
And, Sketch, lovely choices! I actually don't recall those being posted before--they are "the good."
Now, try this on for size:
Dord
(n?)
1934, a ghost word printed in "Webster's New International Dictionary" and defined as a noun used by physicists and chemists, meaning "density." In sorting out and separating abbreviations from words in preparing the dictionary's second edition, a card marked "D or d" meaning "density" somehow migrated from the "abbreviations" stack to the "words" stack. The "D or d" entry ended up being typeset as a word, dord, and defined as a synonym for density. The mistake was discovered in 1939.