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Words you just don't hear every day
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Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:29 amby Dave
Shriekback - Nemesis - "parthenogenesis" (the wacky word standard-bearer IMHO)
Robert Gordon - Red Hot - "doodley" as in "doodley squat"
Not to mention kundalini and fodderstompf. Other entries?
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Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:02 amby egg-roger
When All's Well by EBTG uses the somewhat uncommon words "deign", "dross" and "rife".
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Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:42 amby i_like_lectric_motors
Dead Can Dance - "American Dreaming". Uses both "surreptitious" and "somnambulistic".
Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove. Doesn't use "ubiquitous" but has the phrase "Dream on my dear and renounce temporal obligations".
Christian Death - This Is Heresy. Has the phrase "Your church makes me vomit into the vertiginous abyss". [:D]
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Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:42 amby design_femme
"asunder," as in
"unaware I'm tearing you asunder" from "Running Up That Hill" - Kate Bush
I love that word.
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Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:05 amby mjlauf
"I got a new hermeneutic" -- Scritti Politti, "Lover to Fall"
The Scritti's also break out the word "Pharmacopoeia" on "Boom There She Was."
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Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:05 amby Frank_Chickens
"Obsequious" - "Turn Around" by They Might Be Giants
--
"As chairman of the Cradle of Filth fanclub I'm the most insensitive man in Britain, but even I can see there's tension there"
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Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:24 amby schwenko
splodgedness
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Sat Oct 01, 2005 6:34 amby KYYX4ever
In "To the Shore" by Duran Duran (off original UK release of their 1st album, later substitured with "Is There Something I Should Know" on the later US release), Simon sings about "gorging your [b]sanhedralite[/b]"
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Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:55 amby WolverineSyr
Anything from the Cocteau Twins! [:D]
Toyah from I Want to Be Free "Tear Down the Abbatoirs"
Toyah - in Demolition Men she mentions concrete "plinths" quite a bit.
Jane Siberry - Bound by the Beauty "The Verdant Green."
I really hope they're unusual & it's not that I hang around people with limited vocabulary...
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Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:14 amby DearGod
My favorite....TURGID
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Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:50 amby hubcity
Faith No More managed to get "menstruating" into the top 40...
Egh.
-Sean
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