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Takes the Cake - 8 May 2023

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

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The Diffugility

Diffugility is an intentional mispronunciation of the word difficulty. The most extreme version we know of this is coffee-ugulty with the sea at the beginning, kafugulty. It's in some slang dictionaries and dialect dictionaries but you got to go for those specialty dictionaries if you want to prove it exists.

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