Perturburance

[Rii]

Google sez this isn't a word, nor 'perturberance', and my dictionary agrees. 'Perturbation' seems to be the accepted form, yet it looks and sounds very odd to me, and I evidently picked 'perturburance' up somewhere.

What say you?

 

[Australis]

There's perturbed (agitated) and protuberance (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings).

I was about to make a slightly scandalous joke, I'll leave it for the ruder board members.

 

[Jim Gamma]

Perhaps you picked it up from "Protuberance", meaning something bulging out? (Like a nose, etc.) I think either "Perturberance" or "Perturbation" both look odd to me - I'd just say a "disturbance" I think.

EDIT: Ninja'd by Australis, I see!

 

[Rii]

I was about to make a slightly scandalous joke, I'll leave it for the ruder board members.

I sense a protuberance in the force.

Perhaps you picked it up from "Protuberance", meaning something bulging out? (Like a nose, etc.)

Hmm, that seems likely. Still, it's odd to think that 'perturburance' would come so readily to mind if it's my own mental construct rather than something I've encountered elsewhere and incorporated.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Nah, you're definitely thinking of "protuberance" and "perturbation." Their suffixes are not interchangeable.

 

[Franklin]

There's perturbed (agitated) and protuberance (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings).

I was about to make a slightly scandalous joke, I'll leave it for the ruder board members.

You mean like perturbing a protuberance is perturbation?

 

[John Picard]

Google sez this isn't a word, nor 'perturberance', and my dictionary agrees. 'Perturbation' seems to be the accepted form, yet it looks and sounds very odd to me, and I evidently picked 'perturburance' up somewhere.

What say you?

I say you need to learn how to enunciate.

 

[Rii]

I say you need to learn how to enunciate.

Difficult to enunciate a word you've never heard before.

 

[John Picard]

I say you need to learn how to enunciate.

Difficult to enunciate a word you've never heard before.

Ha! My mother was a champ at mangling words and would get pissed when her errors were pointed out. I'm thinking she's slightly sociopathic (which explains A LOT of her behavior/actions) because she mangles a word and then convinces herself she *she's in the right*.

For whatever reason, "protuberance" became an "in" word during freshman year of high school, and when mentioned in passing, my mother insisted that the correct pronunciation was "pro-too-din-ance" and that she'd heard it pronounced that way her whole life.

She has a habit of not conforming with accepted standards of the rest of the world. For whatever reason, it irked her to no end that any letters from my school, by the Headmaster, started with, "Good morning". She would pen some inane response to him that always started with, "Good evening..."

 

[thumbtack]

This thread is really perturbing me.

 

[Gryffindorian]

I always thought it was "perturbability."

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

There's perturbed (agitated) and protuberance (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings).

I was about to make a slightly scandalous joke, I'll leave it for the ruder board members.

Your protuberance perturbs me.

It's the best i can do right now.

 

[Roshi]

I are disturbed...

 

[RJDiogenes]

I sense a protuberance in the Force.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Well ... tuck it in!

 

[RJDiogenes]

I wouldn't touch it with a... er... never mind....

 

[M'Sharak]

Mammalian perturberances?

 

[scotpens]

For whatever reason, “protuberance” became an “in” word during freshman year of high school. . .

Maybe because you guys were starting to notice girls' protuberances?

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Rii, do you by any chance watch the US version of The Office? Because I'm pretty sure Michael Scott says the word in question in the episode where he grills his foot on his George Foreman grill.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Mammalian perturberances?

Potrzebie!