When you spell something in the army or as a pilot, it's common to use words like: yankee, zulu and foxtrot. Some people make up their own, like december, empire, november, november, insidious, summer.

Very few people use these:

• Asterisk
  
• Back-slash
  
• Colon
  
• Dot
  
• Eight
  
• Four
  
• Gene
  
• Hyphen
  
• Illicit
  
• Jean
  
• Knows
  
• Louder
  
• Minus
  
• Nine
  
• One
  
• Period
  
• Qu’orn
  
• Repeat
  
• Seven
  
• Three
  
• Underscore
  
• Vowels
  
• Won
  
• X-mas
  
• Yiddish
  
• Zero

(Bonus points: I dare you to come up with a more worse one.)

Louis CK is amazing at sounding like a dumb guy who accidentally said something smart. But in four minutes he just about equals Irvine Welsh on materialism.

It's waaaay to early to define if/what it is, but the word is hilarious.

I can't stop thinking of manamanah.

the world before colour.

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