What words

I believe it means 'Stick your hand through your throat" or something to that effect

There's the old Czech tongue twister, Which sounds roughly like: /stRtsh pRst skRs kRk/, where each R is a rolled, voiced 'r' - which acts as a vowel in the language.

"fandango" (used for the movie website) makes me wonder if focus tests were done to find a word that anyone could easily spell phonetically after hearing it once for the first time, and be assured of spelling it correctly in their browser.

I love it when a bunch of word nerds come together, the epeolatry in this thread makes me giddy! Thanks for all the great suggestions.

I like mining sites like the http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html for neat bits of Latin, either because I like the species or what meaning it was derived from. Generally this takes some additional googling, but it's fun! For example: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Sirenia.html#Sirenia, the order of Manatees and dugong, deriving from their being mistaken for mermaids () by early sailors.

I like this one: syzygy An alignment of three celestial bodies (for example, the Sun, Earth, and Moon) such that one body is directly between the other two, such as an eclipse It's generally used in other disciplines like math or psychology for independent parts coming together or communicating.

Don't forget to mine http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/45558 http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/22236. fricative, puissance, squid ink, euphony, garage door, vaporetto, lagniappe (which you'll want to spell LANyap, no doubt)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perspicacity "The power to see or understand clearly; sharp-sightedness; insight."

I always liked words that sounded opposite of what they meant, like pulchritude meaning beautiful. Ubiquitous and obfuscate are routinely entertaining :-) Consequently, I have invented "to squiptipadoogleboinkaflop" -- to make a remark revealing that one possesses the belief that a word must appear in either a dictionary one personally owns, has personally seen, or because of one's authority as knowing words, in order to be deemed legitimate -- whereas dicitionaries are just the reverse, a listing of words in current use based on usage presently, not a list of what is-and-is-not a word, like how a newspaper does not make the news but reports what happens. Reasons for this are usually because of some word game rule like Scrabble that disallows proper names, abbreviations, et cetera and gets transfered to life to imply that proper names are not real words. Dictionaries and etymology books merely report the definitions and alternate spellings of words as they have appeared throughout history, so some future dictionary could include Squiptipadoogleboinkaflop simply because it has been used once on Metafilter. I tried posting a wiki for it, but it got edited-out/deleted ;-P Go figure. The very usage (whether in speech, print, cave dwelling and others) of a group of symbols or sounds or ideas to form an expressable concept, ever, makes a word a word, not because it has once appeared in some publication. "One who thinks Blorange, one of many rhymes for Orange, doesn't count as a word because it's the proper name for a hill in the UK, has just squiptipadoogleboinkaflopped."