Fnord!

[dendritejungle]

It has been a fun word week here in the Jungle, and I simply must share a few of my favourites. So, with no further ado, two words I'd never heard before but now love:

• Ganked
• Fnord

...and three words where I knew the phenomena they're describing, but never had the proper label for them before:

• Pareidolia
• Apophenia
• Backmasking

I love random surfing at lunch.

Comments

[dendritejungle.livejournal.com]

Oooo, that is good. Thanks!

I am also having trouble with the pronunciation. Once upon a time I knew what those phonetic symbols meant, but that boy can I not remember now. On the upside, it's such an obscure word, who's going to correct me?

That does sound like a ridiculously obvious one for them to have missed. You should edit the Wikipedia entry! Just because you can!