Saturday 31 May 2014

Extream

Extream: noun. A team which has reached a high or the highest degree. In sports and especially in sports reporting and sports journalism, the term extream is used to identify teams, which are currently on top of the rankings or leading the season/league. The term was first coined by legendary sports commentator John Motson after he misspoke while commentating a football match and instead of correcting his mistake decide to play along and coin the term. The term became so popular that in the 1980's it was the fourth most popular word in a man's vocabulary, right after "beer", "damn" and "what". To this day it remains the most popular word spoken in a football stadium.

Friday 30 May 2014

Sayn't

Sayn't: verb. sayn't is a classical example of a seldom used abbreviation of two words. This category of words also happens to include comen't, amn't and willn't (which was, for some reason, ousted from common use by the completely illogical "won't"). There isn't really much else to say about the word sayn't except for the fact that it is composed of the words "say" and "not" - we hope you realised this before...

Thursday 29 May 2014

Frenchise

Frenchise: noun. An authorisation granted by France to an individual or group, enabling them to carry out specified commercial activities, as well as the right to vote in French elections. Frenchises are some of the most sought-after commodities in France and their price on the black market can soar up as high as being worth 312 baguettes. Since 2005 an official frenchise from the French government has been extremely hard to get, since the country placed specific and severe restrictions on the process, which determines if a person is eligible for a frenchise. The process involves several arduous challenges, mazes, logical puzzles, a fight to the death against the minotaur of the Parisian catacombs and cleaning up Augean stables.

Wednesday 28 May 2014

Exexistence

Exexistence: noun. The state of being permanently wiped from existence. Some philosophers believing in the immortality of the soul have argued that exexistence is impossible, while a few others believe that exexistence is the only logical effect of death. In the material world, exexistence can be used on several different levels. The first of these is when a compound changes form to such extent that it can no longer be called by its previous name, such as when a table burns - it is no longer a table but a pile of ashes and that what had previously been a table is now in exexistence. The second of these is when matter itself ceases to exist by being converted into energy. The third, and largely hypothetical, use of the word exexistence is when matter or energy ceases to exist entirely - a phenomenon that goes contrary to the laws of thermodynamics but is nevertheless theorised by physicists who have almost entirely stopped living in the real world and return from their sphere of numbers and irrational rationality (or was it rational irrationality?) for breakfast, lunch, dinner and an occasional bath.

Tuesday 27 May 2014

Marineate

Marineate: verb. To become or make something/someone into a marine, or a marine creature. This does not mean that if you throw a cow into the ocean, that is marineating. However if you attach gills to the cow and then throw it into the ocean, then that is marineating. The process of making a person a marine is actually extraordinarily complicated as it requires not only drafting by a proper military officer, but also arduous exercise, an extensive portfolio, an excellent knowledge of knots and an innate ability to recognise individual seagulls. A popular example of someone marineating comes from Finland, which in an attempt to make pork their most popular export marineated 54,000 pigs and dumped them into the North Sea. Let's just say that the Sea Cucumbers were more effective at existing underwater.

Monday 26 May 2014

Babyloam

Babyloam: Babyloam is a type of very fertile soil with a good proportion of sand, clay, silt and biotic materials obtained from babies. A normal loam can be simply turned into babyloam by adding babies to it (whether alive or dead should not matter, as if they are alive, they will fertilise by defecating and if they are dead, they will simply decompose). It is, however, far easier to purchase babyloam from the black market than to make it manually, as the former is not illegal. It is an interesting fact that babyloams are, at least according to an American poll conducted last week, most frequently made after long car rides and plane flights. One can only wonder why.

Sunday 25 May 2014

Scrab

Scrab: noun. A hard coating on skin formed during the healing procedure after a wound, which is made of paper (not the wound, the coating). The biology and physiology of scrabs is really quite complicated, as it involves the pancreas, pastellets (as opposed to platelets) and in some cases the human is required to have an entire separate organ to produce scrabs. This organ is generally known as a papier bladder and is found between the heart and the superior vena cava. Scrabs are notorious for taking a long time to disappear, the only sure way of getting rid of them involves a certain type of bacteria, which grows in Mangrove forests and can lead to an infection of the wound, if applied improperly.

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Jumping out the window, Herb landed on a carfield, which was surprisingly but understandably painful. Herb spent some time narturing his wound, hoping it wouldn't develop a scrab. Running along the street, Herb passed several people offering him snuffins. Herb ran hope as fast his puny little legs could carry him, slammed through the door and locked all 65 bolts after him. He was happy to find that everything in his house was quite normal, including the incessant chicketting from Bob, his pet chicken.

Saturday 24 May 2014

Imfusion

Imfusion: noun. The removal of an element or quality from something, as well as a drink prepared by the grounding of the leaves of a plant or herb into a liquid. The process of imfusion is very popular and important in the petrochemical industry, where something happens with oleum or something and then something else and you know...The liquid imfusion is very popular in a certain part of Cambodia, where the entire local culture is based on the process of destruction, which is why imfusion is the perfect drink for the people.

Friday 23 May 2014

Malsai

Malsai: noun. A quite ugly looking miniature tree fashioned in a Japanese manner or at least slightly resembling it. A malsai used to be the traditional counterpart to a bonsai; bonsai obviously being the pretty tree, malsai the ugly one and nonchasai something in the middle. However, after Japan´s Meiji Reforms and its opening up to the West, its industry and economy was strengthened to such an extent that it was no longer profitable to make pots for malsais and nonchasais and so they were quickly disposed of in the process of their making. This eventually led to these words being completely eliminated from the vocabulary of ordinary humans and the tradition was only kept alive by the efforts of Japan´s traditional bonsai-producing families such as the Kaba from Osaka, the Yanagi from Honshu and the Unmei-no-ki from Hokkaido. It is also worth mentioning that some linguists have put forward the idea that malsais should be renamed to mauvaisais, but these propositions were rejected for their obvious attempts at surreptitiously establishing French cultural dominance over the bonsai industry.

Thursday 22 May 2014

Flinsult

Flinsult: noun. A flattering insult. This is a common form of pleasantry exchanged in arguments with a mortal-enemy or a very good friend. The Oxford Dictionary of Conversational Etiquette states that "a flinsult can only be used when at least 3 other people are present in the room along with the speaker, it isn't snowing outside and no werewolves have been spotted in the last month." However these rules are often disobeyed, as can be seen from the case reported in Romania, where two werewolves threw flinsults at each other alone in a forest in the middle of winter. A statistician from the University of Botswana reported that a flinsult is the highest form of wit and anyone capable of using it must be an intellectual equal to at least Galileo.

Wednesday 21 May 2014

Pole

Pole: verb. To pole is to slowly and surreptitiously occupy an area by moving up poles that mark the end of one's property and the beginning of another's. This occurrence was obviously begun in Poland, where neighbours would compete against each other in this odd sport, eventually taking over each other's houses by sticking poles inside and moving them along the floor without anyone noticing. Some historians suspect that the reason why Poland is so oddly giant for a country of less than forty million is exactly large-scale poling, in which territory is not only expanded by moving poles and changing signs, but also by building settlements on wheels that are slowly moved in the general direction of expansion. According to the Polish government, the practice was outlawed in 1989, but some suspect that it is still happening, especially considering the strangely incongruous amount of Polish people on the British isles.

Tuesday 20 May 2014

Presalent

Presalent: adjective. This word has two distinct, which will be briefly summarised now:

1. Describing something, where presents are the prevalent object. This is especially true of the rooms of people under 18, old-people homes, homeless shelters and the homes of upper-class citizens of Miami Beach at Christmas. A word used very often in National Geographic, an infographic published by National Geographic in June 2004, showed that the word is used as often in National Geographic as the word "truth".
2. Describing something which is prevalent in the present but is subject to change very soon. A common example given to students of Orthography and Ornithology is snow in late March, it's prevalent now, but by tomorrow it's going to probably be slush.

Monday 19 May 2014

Vakuum

Vakuum: noun. A place devoid of the letter K, such as not Slovakia or car park. It is, however, quite difficult to find a place devoid of the letter K entirely, for example, China is an almost complete vakuum, though there tend to be some rare occurrences of the letter in fast food restaurants, such as KFCs which are almost like oases in an otherwise K-less place.  

Sunday 18 May 2014

Pung

Pung: noun. A pung is a truly and utterly terrible pun that on a scale from one to ten goes into negative numbers. The first recorded occurrence of the word was in a Budapest journal commenting on a show of a certain British comedian who came to the capital in 1992, his opening line for the night of pung being: "I was talking to a friend recently and 'e asked me where I was going for the 'olidays. I told 'im 'ungary. And 'e said: 'wut, you 'ung Garry?'" The only audible response the comedian received for the whole night came from a small child that broke out crying once it realised that its parents had abandoned it in an almost empty hall with the comedian and a newsreporter from the aforementioned journal (this newsreporter was the only person who remained by the time the first fifteen minutes passed, as the child then proceeded to run away screaming).

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It must have been at least fifteen minutes that Herb, Albert and the hidden Draculaic hummbug spent hidden from the hambourgeoisie. The time they spent waiting was used by Albert to make some unintelligible pungs (or at least that is what Herb presumed they were meant to be after hearing the one about the mlmth that mlmlmlmuuum the mmmmnnn to mnmumnmn). However, after some time passed and Albert's allergic reaction subsided, Herb realised that the pungs he was laughing at out of kindness weren't in fact stupid puns, but Albert admitting to his thesbianity, which made Herb feel slightly ashamed - not because of his own laughter at this profound moment of self-revelation, but rather because he felt ashamed for Albert who evidently didn't realise that his partiality towards chicken would only make him a thesbian if he were an actor. As the case stood, Herb decided that he would leave Albert behind, as he himself had a pet chicken at home and being around Albert made him feel a bit awkward. With a swift movement, he jumped through the first floor window of the rather forty building and ran for his life. 

Saturday 17 May 2014

Greta

Greta: adjective. A euphemism for the word great. In some cultures it has supplanted the common word "great" and is used on a daily basis by the entire population of the culture. Commonly thought to be a simple misspelling there are many conspiracies surrounding this seemingly innocent mistake. Since the authors of this blog value their lives, they will not delve into these conspiracies and instead here is an interesting fact about slugs: Only 5% of the slug population is above ground at any one time. The other 95% is underground digesting your seedlings, laying eggs, and feeding on roots and seed sprouts.

Friday 16 May 2014

Slove

Slove: noun. A slove is, quite conventionally put, a slave to love - a person who cannot imagine life without being constantly infatuated with romance. However, the former meaning of the word was far more prosaic. Up until the 1980s, a slove was simply a slowly working stove - something that, however, became so rare by the end of the decade that in order to save the word, the MREL decided to change its meaning to make it suitable for more widespread use. This change was very welcome by a nation up in the Balkans that was for a long time unsure what to call itself. It just so happened that the recent change of the word's meaning made the Yugoslavian headlines and a new nation was born - Slovenia, the land of the sloves (it seems that they must have misinterpreted the word, thinking of it far more positively than it truly was).  

Thursday 15 May 2014

Anacondise

Anacondisation (British sp.), Anacondization (American sp.): noun. Being constricted, suffocated and consumed by an anaconda. The first recorded case of anacondisation/anacondization comes from the middle 1850's from the Amazon Rainforest near Manaus, Brazil. It occurred to a native of the region, who happened to disturb the strangling of someone else, thereby having snake's wrath move onto him and being strangled himself in the end. See also deanacondisation/deanacondization and reanacondisation/reanacondization.

Wednesday 14 May 2014

Crat

Crat: noun. The word crat has so many unbelievable meanings that... that you wouldn't even believe them:
1. A rat in a crate.
2. A crate in a rat.
3. A crate specifically designed for a rat.
4. A rat specifically designed for a crate.
5. A crabby rat.
6. A ratful crab.
7. A Croatian rat.
8. A ratty Croatian.
9. A euphemism for a rat's excrement.
10. A euphemism for an excrement's rat.

Tuesday 13 May 2014

Lolspeak

Lolspeak: noun. The language used by the current generation in an attempt to make communication shorter. Examples of dis be including liek such wow, but jk not rly. Thnx grd dis hasnt bekom pop. Doge. Oneth rekrds of dis languge r frm 1999 aftr it origin8d in Trenton. Mah homies in Trenton b liek waddup, we has langeuage, lols. Dem fools in dem bookhousz b liek it be no speak, but we aint carin.

Monday 12 May 2014

Herzegovernor

Herzegovernor: noun. A Herzegovernor is an archaic term for someone who is culturally far more Herzegovine than Bosnian. What is interesting about this is that in modern terms, Herzegovernor is not a demonym and the Herzegovine part of the name for the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina itself is derived from a region called Herzegovina and not from an ethnically distinct minority. Still, though there is no evidence that any true Herzegovernors exist, the word has survived to be used about 1.02 times per year in professional publications.

Sunday 11 May 2014

Stickly

Stickly: adjective. To have the properties or appearance of a stick. Among these are being brown and sticky, as a stick is both the color brown and capable of sticking things. Human limbs have an average of 0.82 on the stickly scale, as it does share many similarities to a stick but is also too flexible and covered in a soft material to get a higher stickliness rating. this scale is based on an ancient stick taken from an oak tree, this branch is kept underground and will be preserved indefinitely in a vacuum, this was thought to give the perfect example to define a stick but it has an issue where some sticks will score as low as 0.992 on the scale

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Herb soon remembered that he was quit hungry and realized for the first time that day that he was quite thrusty. He turned to Albert to ask if he happened to have the ability to change the day from Wednesday to Thursday or at least had a tangerine on him, but Albert was grabbing his mouth. With a quick inspection Herb deduced that Albert was bitten by a hummbug, which it would seem he was allergic to. His tongue swelled to an impressive size, unintelligibilizing him. The hummbug could not be seen could have crawled anywhere. This did not concern Herb though; what did concern him was that his friend's tongue was at such a size that he would be unable to eat anything larger than micaroni making an invitation to lunch awkward.

Saturday 10 May 2014

Curmuffin

Curmuffin: noun. The breakfast food being eaten by your person at this very moment. This is only applicable if it is currently breakfast. This does not have to be in the morning, simply at a time, when you break fast after having fasted for a period of time. Originally the word was used to refer only to muffins being eaten by your person at this very moment, however the International Bagel Society opposed this and so had the definition expanded.

Friday 9 May 2014

Bellgrade

Bellgrade: noun. Bellgrade is a measure of the quality of the tuning of bells of different shapes and sizes. In technical terms, the Bellgrade scale goes from one to eighty four with one being the highest tuning quality and eighty four being the absolute worst. However, this scale is rather theoretical as there have been no bells so far that have been tuned so badly as to earn a bellgrade of eighty four and there have been none that have gained a bellgrade of one either. The worst recorded bellgrade was given to a bell in Serbia which was tuned so badly that it only made a "clunk" noise, thereby earning a grade of sixty two. The best bell, on the other hand, exists in Kathmandu with a bellgrade of four, but its sound has only been estimated as no one ever dared to ring it because of its extreme holiness. The reason for the lowest bellgrade being eighty four is not too scientific though. In fact, the absolute minimum was completely arbitrary just like forty two, the answer to the universe.  

Thursday 8 May 2014

Acycle

Acycle: noun. A cycle without without any wheels. One can imagine that an acycle looks like a bicycle without wheels, or maybe a monocycle without wheels, or maybe a tricycle without wheels, we aren't entirely sure. It is however important to remember that when racing in a marathon an acycle is a permitted companion and can be used to gain an advantage over all the other racers and beat all those losers, I mean who'd want to run in a marathon, honestly?

Wednesday 7 May 2014

Undermountain

Undermountain: noun, adjective or verb. Depending on its use, undermountain has a variety of pronunciations. As a noun, it is read simply as "under-mountain." As an adjective, it could be read either as "under-mountained" or "under-mountainous" where the obviously unwritten "ed" and "ous" act as a counter-balance to the many times when English has silent letters. As a verb, on the other hand, the word is read as "under-mountayn." These varying pronunciations, though they may be confusing, serve to distinguish the different meanings listed below:
1. As a noun, the word simply denotes a place that is under mountains. We can use it in sentences like the following "In the undermountains of Switzerland, there was a village where dogs ate cats, horses ate dogs and humans ate (and still eat) the horses."
2. As an adjective, the word refers to a place that is deemed to have too few mountains to function properly, for example Holland.
3. As for the verb, to undermountain means to be creating too few mountains in an area, which is what the Dutch have often been complaining to God about in several public letters. 

Tuesday 6 May 2014

Dreath

Dreath: noun. A death in a dream. There have been various theories about dreaths which have originated in different cultures and pseudosciences. The infamous-psychologist Sigmund Freud firmly believed that if one suffers a dreath he himself must die in real life in the upcoming week. The majority of the scientific community has agreed that this is utter poppycock and leans more towards the belief of the Ndebele people of Botswana, who belief that a dreath is the promise of double rainbows in the upcoming weeks. Statistically speaking, they're probably more correct than Freud.

Monday 5 May 2014

Woop

Woop: verb. For the first time in the history of ever, this blog has finally come up with a word relevant to... well anything (giant gasp!)... perhaps except for suckerfish. Some people might actually use that. Anyway, take notice of this momentous ... moment, citizens of the internet! Now as for the word, anyhow, to woop is to evade a topic like one evades poop on the ground - gracefully and often pretending that one did not see it. The reason for this is that if poop is found in one´s own house, it is the traditional rule that whoever sees the poop first has to clean it. To evade cleaning it, of course, one simply has to woop and expect the next person not to do the same, which can obviously lead to mutual wooping that could last months upon months until the poop rots away completely and there is nothing left to woop around. Wooping, of course, isn´t just related to poop though, politicians do it all the time while visiting China and other countries where there are many topics that are to be -Tibet- eva -freedom of expression- ded.

Sunday 4 May 2014

Triantroupe

Triantroupe: noun. A group of triangles. It is a scientific fact that triangles are happier in groups and are indeed often found in nature in groups. These have become known by naturalists and polygonologists as triantroupes. Careful examination of the groups has resulted in some well known and established facts about them. For example triantroupes will only attack when in danger of being separated or being attacked by a wild heptagon. They are also never found in the vicinity of hendecagons and can sometimes be heard squealing, what is thought to be their group mating call.

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Having failed to destroy the hambourgeisie, Herb decided that the best course of action would be to run, so as to avoid the possible retaliation. Herb wasn't known as a chamberlinger and was often found roaming the hallways of the laboratory, so it wasn't particularly strange when he stormed through them at an astounding speed. However he must have taken a wrong turn near Albuquerque, because the hambourgeisie had him cornered. It was a classic example of calicornithologicalisation without the bird and the cat. He was rescued just in the nick of time by his good friend Albert, known for being constantly overpapered. Herb and Albert had met at a feastivity but that's completely irrelevant to the story, so moving on. Albert saved Herb by unleashing his pet suckerfish on the pursuers. Albert also had a moath which made conversation with him slightly awkward, but that didn't matter to Herb when they escaped over the moath. They hid in John's office, who was away recovering from waltzerdation. 

Saturday 3 May 2014

Pacement

Pacement: noun. This word has two separate meanings, both very important in the modern world:

1. The cement used on pavements. There is a very special and top secret formula used to make pacement there are only two people on every continent who know the formula and every time a new batch of pacement is to be made, one of them has to come to the location to supervise. This has at times caused problem, espcially in Georgia, where the first pavement was finished in 1999.

2. The process of selecting a pace while walking. Pacement is a professional technique used by speed walkers to help them determine the right speed in order to increase the likelihood of their winning. Pacement was taken under investigation by the International Olympic Committee, whether or not it should be an allowed technique, however the committee realised in time that there was literally nothing they could do about it.

Friday 2 May 2014

Tirant

Tirant: noun. There are many different definitions for the word tirant, the most common of which are the follwing:
1. (In American English) An absolute and oppressive ruler over the ring shaped covering around a wheel of a vehicle such as a car or a motorcycle. We won´t insult the intelligence of our readers by proceeding to explain when this definition of the word is relevant to anything, so let us move on.
2. An individual perpetually causing another individual´s fatigue, usually through constant harassment. While young children are the most frequently cited examples of tirants, it should not be forgotten that the Biblical God also had some quite enervating ideas like making his chosen people wander forty years around a desert.
3. An inhabitant of the city Tirana.
4. A lover of tiramisu. It is a little known fact that an Italian man named Francisco Gelato married a bowl of tiramisu in January 2010. However, his spouse proceeded to melt during the spring, leaving Francisco with brown mush that his mother threw away for the terrible stench it left behind after decomposing for several months.

Thursday 1 May 2014

Nonomatopoeia

Nonomatopoeia: noun. A word that specifically describes what something does not sound like. This can be very useful to describe how something doesn’t sound the way it should, or to describe how normal the sound of something is for example “’meow’ the table didn’t say as it hit the floor in frustration”. The word “nonomatopoeia” was first discovered on a VHS tape; the identities of the people in the tape are unknown and the topic of the video is also unknown as the tape was confiscated by a group of well-dressed men before it could be finished.