What nonsensical words do you like to use in your not so everyday speech?
I’ve seen a few science videos from classrooms in the 1940’s/1950’s that legit use the word “recombobulate” in a scientific setting and I always thought it was funny as hell.
Which is funny as the word combobulate is a back formation from Discombobulate.
back-formation:
A term formed by removing an apparent or real prefix or suffix from an older term; for example, the noun pea arose because the final /z/ sound in pease sounded like a plural suffix. Similarly, the verb edit is a back-formation from the earlier noun editor.
There’s an airport in a US city, which has a “RECOMBOBULATION AREA” instead of an “ARRIVALS HALL”.
Which, given that the “welcome to…” sign that passengers first see on entering the terminal building names a totally different city in a totally different state to the one the airport is actually in, is probably very apt.
