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%%*** an old video (which, unfortunately has been deleted long ago) about Skyrim had the narrator fighting a dragon and screaming "NOOOO MI STA FACENDO IL CUCULO"



** cesso (either a rude noun, literally meaning "toilet", but also used for TheGonk... or a verb, meaning "I quit". But the latter meaning is more archaic)

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** cesso (either a rude noun, literally meaning "toilet", but also used for TheGonk...a {{Gonk}}... or a verb, meaning "I quit". But the latter meaning is more archaic)



** fagiano (pheasant. They are sometimes referenced in Series/CameraCaffe, seemingly for no other reason other than being a funny word)

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** fagiano (pheasant. They are sometimes referenced in Series/CameraCaffe, Series/CameraCafe, seemingly for no other reason other than being a funny word)




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** And many more, exacerbated by the many and varied languages of Indonesia. Most often, an innocent-meaning word in one regional language can turn one-eighty in meaning in another.

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** And many more, exacerbated by the many and varied languages of Indonesia. Most often, an innocent-meaning word in one regional language [[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike can turn one-eighty one-eighty]] in meaning [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage in another.another]].

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** Not to mention that "penguin", one of the funniest of them all, originally derives from Welsh.

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** Not to mention that "penguin", one of the funniest of them all, might originally derives derive from Welsh.



* Anything in [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]], or sounding ''like'' Yiddish, even (Note that about half of the examples are either Hebrew and German words, or very close to them. Yiddish practically mishes the rediculoucy of those two languages and takes it up to eleven):

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* Anything in [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]], or sounding ''like'' Yiddish, even (Note that about half of the examples are either Hebrew and German words, or very close to them. Yiddish practically mishes the rediculoucy ridiculoucy of those two languages and takes it up to eleven):



*** Actually, any word with an "euille" sound is funny. �il, �illeton, feuille, fauteuil...

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*** Actually, any word with an "euille" sound is funny. �il, �illeton, feuille, Feuille, fauteuil...



** cocomero (watermelon)

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** cocomero (watermelon)(watermelon)%%or anguria



** chiappe (butt cheeks)

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** chiappe (butt cheeks)cheeks. A similar word, but probably unrelated, is schiappa, "loser", which also is a funny word)



** piccione (pigeon)

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** piccione (pigeon)
(pigeon)%%and impiccione
** puzza (stench)
** goffo ([[TheKlutz clumsy)
** rospo (toad)
** fellone (felon)
** vetusto (archaic)
** fagiano (pheasant. They are sometimes referenced in Series/CameraCaffe, seemingly for no other reason other than being a funny word)
%%they even made a song about them
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* [[Anime/FateApocrypha Astolfo]]

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* [[Anime/FateApocrypha [[Literature/FateApocrypha Astolfo]]
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** høyesterettsjustitiarius (Try saying that one fast!)


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** mannevond


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** nøtteskrike


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** pølse
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* Candace


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* [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda Ganondorf]]


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* Kafka
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Kefka]]


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* Oppenheimer
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** [[WesternAnimation/MegaMan IT'S GUTS MAN!!]]
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* Music/{{Gangnam|Style}}, Seoul, South Korea
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* [[Website/SCPFoundation [EXPUNGED] ]]


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** mousetit



* morepork (it's a species of owl)



* passable (Depending on your locality, it can sound like "possible" said in a peculiar accent).



* wiwaxia (an extinct spiky mollusk)

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* wiwaxia ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiwaxia Wiwaxia]]'' (an extinct spiky mollusk)



* Uruguay (which is most certainly NOT pronounced "You are gay")

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* Uruguay [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons (which is most certainly NOT pronounced "You are gay")gay")]]



* peacock

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* peacockpassable (Depending on your locality, it can sound like "possible" said in a peculiar accent).
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* UsefulNotes/NewJersey
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* souvlaki
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* leotard

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** pigna (pinecone)
%%I've also read a story that used "pigne" to
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** cesso (either a rude noun, literally meaning "toilet", but also used for TheGonk... or a verb, meaning "I quit". But the latter meaning is more archaic)
** piccione (pigeon)
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* [[LetsPlay/PewDiePie barrels]]

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* [[LetsPlay/PewDiePie [[WebVideo/PewDiePie barrels]]
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* [[CanadaEh poutine]]

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* [[CanadaEh [[MooseAndMapleSyrup poutine]]
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* noggin
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* [[Music/JackStauber peenids]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W0CQKvo-bE&pp=ygUHUGVlbmlkcw%3D%3D What was that last one?]]
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* Harold
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* cockapoo
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** [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Shoekakke]]

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** [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Shoekakke]]Shoekkake]]
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** [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Shoekakke]]
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* bomb
** [[VideoGame/ShmupsSkillTest Pull off "Nice Bombs!"]]

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* '''Scottish'''
** Cludgie (toilet)
** [[ForeignQueasine Haggis]]
** Hogmanay (Slang for "New Years Eve)
** Wee (small)
** Neap (turnip, slang for idiot)
** Bahookie (A person's backside)
** Och (Oh)
** Tattie (Potato)
** And a great number of English words [[FunetikAksent spoken in the native accent]] (Aboot, Oot, Canne, Dinnae, etc.)


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* '''Scots'''[[note]]The sister language of English spoken in UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}; not to be confused with Scottish ''Gaelic'', which belongs to the Celtic family of languages[[/note]]
** Cludgie (toilet)
** [[ForeignQueasine Haggis]]
** Hogmanay (Slang for "New Years Eve)
** Wee (small)
** Neap (turnip, slang for idiot)
** Bahookie (A person's backside)
** Och (Oh)
** Tattie (Potato)
** And a great number of English words [[FunetikAksent spoken in the native accent]] (Aboot, Oot, Canne, Dinnae, etc.)


** [[WebVideo/JonTron Lets turn up on a grommet? The]] [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]] [[WebVideo/JonTron does grommet mean!?]]

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** [[WebVideo/JonTron Lets turn up drop in on a grommet? The]] [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]] [[WebVideo/JonTron does grommet mean!?]]
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* [[PantyShot panties]] (''Film/AnatomyOfMurder'' even lampshades this)

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* [[PantyShot panties]] (''Film/AnatomyOfMurder'' (''Film/AnatomyOfAMurder'' even lampshades this)
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* [[PantyShot panties]] (''Anatomy of a Murder'' even lampshades this)

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* [[PantyShot panties]] (''Anatomy of a Murder'' (''Film/AnatomyOfMurder'' even lampshades this)

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* big ol' bahoonga-da-goongas

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* big ol' bahoonga-da-goongasbailiwick


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* boobs
* boobies
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* Torquay, England. Best known from ''Series/FawltyTowers'', but also because of the similarity to "Turkey".


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** Be careful not to confuse "Waterloo" in Belgium with "London Waterloo" station. When trains through the Channel Tunnel used to terminate at London Waterloo, a few unsuspecting tourists in Brussels met their Waterloo by ending up at the wrong Waterloo.

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