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If you have the right kind of friends you can play "Who knows the most obscure word?". Everyone picks a word from memory, check each word's position (We used to use google ngrams, but this would work well.), whoever gets the least common word wins that round, repeat until it's not fun anymore. That's how I learned defenestrate, obsequious, and a few other words.


I love "sesquipedalian", because it's so self-referential.


I love "non-self-referential" because if I use it enough times with all the correct stresses and pauses, I can build a computer.


First word I tried wasn't even present in the list (equivocate). How do you score that?


Equivocate came up in https://books.google.com/ngrams. Looks like the linked tool isn't quite up for it after all.


"Kajagoogoo" is the 96,714th most common word in the English language.


That's cuz it's so shy...




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