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A site for skeptics and critical thinkers. Hundreds of real life examples of fallacies, updated regularly. An eBook version of Humbug! The skeptics’ field guide to spotting fallacies in thinking. A weekly podcast on each fallacy: Hunting Humbug 101 – a crash course in shooting down bad arguments. We take fallacies seriously, but not ourselves.

Saturday, January 15, 2005

Words worth espousing

Increase your vocabulary with these esoteric locutions:

aaaahh!
babblatrice
backsters
beclown
bloviate
bumf
cacoethes
cromulent
degage
discombobulate
oenanist
the ohnosecond
quanked
recondite
rocket surgery
trollop and strumpet
vomitory

Posted by Theo Clark at 4:30 PM

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