Weekly English Words with Alisha - Funny Sounding Words

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Okay! Welcome back to Weekly Words. My name is Alisha and this week we're going to look
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at funny sounding words.
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I’m afraid… The first word is “doodle”. “Doodle” is a funny word because of the
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way it sound, it just sounds funny when you say it. Drawing something with no plan, we
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call that doodling So in a sentence: when I was a student, I
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love doodling in my notebook. That’s a funny word.
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“hodgepodge” mixture of a bunch of different stuff.
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You might say, the dinner that I cooked last week was a real hodgepodge of the stuff I
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had in my fridge.
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Next is “shenanigans”. “Shenanigans”, I like this word a lot.
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I really like shenanigans. Kinda small tricks the my plan your family or your friends that
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are just a little bit mischievous, not necessarily evil but just kind of tricky, or just to be
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a little bit funny to play a joke on someone. Your parents will say,
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enough with your shenanigans, go to your room, or something like that.
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The next word is “skedaddle”. “Skedaddle” is a good word, it means to
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leave quickly, to go, to go quickly. You've been may be at a coffee shop for too
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long and you have to do something else, so you say to your friend, let's skedaddle, we
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need to go to our next appointment.
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okay the next word is “persnickety”. “Persnickety” means that you’re too
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focus on the details, you really like that the small the whatever it is you're doing.
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In a sentence, you might say, my aunt is a persnickety person, she always has to have
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things a certain way.”
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And that's the end, those are some funny words. Try to use them a little bit. Thank you very
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much for joining us for weekly word this week, we'll see you again next time for more fun stuff. Bye!
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