![]() ![]() ![]() While exploring the coast of Virginia in 1606, Captain John Smith (of Pocahontas fame) wrote in his journal of a creature known to local tribes as the assapanick. The final – ite, incidentally, is the same mineralogical suffix as in words like graphite and kryptonite. It takes its name from the village of Aktash in eastern Russia, where it was first discovered in 1968. AktashiteĪktashite is a rare mineral used commercially as an ore of arsenic, copper, and mercury. Aholehole is pronounced “ah-holy-holy,” and is the name of a species of Hawaiian flagtail fish native to the central Pacific. If you read that as "a-hole," then think again. Here are 50 words that might sound rude, but really aren’t. Some words really do sound like they mean something quite different from their otherwise entirely innocent definition (a mukluk is an Inuit sealskin boot, in case you were wondering), and no matter how clean-minded you might be, it’s hard not to raise an eyebrow or a wry smile whenever someone says something like cockchafer or sexangle. To paraphrase Krusty the Clown, comedy isn’t dirty words-it’s words that sound dirty, like mukluk. ![]()
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