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resukureipuru · 4203 days ago · link · · parent · post: Illustrations of Unusual and Rarely Spoken Words
I'm gonna tread dangerous waters here and say that some of them are ironic. As I understand it, irony is the defiance of expectation by contradiction. You'd expect "diarrhea" to be an ugly word, since it describes an ugly thing. You'd expect "rhotacism" to be pronouncable to people with a rhotacism, to describe their condition. Same with "lisp". Doesn't really apply to abbreviation or ultracrepidarian in the same way, so it's probably not the word you're looking for. It's a fun concept for a set of words, though