Crazy ABC's by Barenaked Ladies

[thnidu]

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But it's "foehn", guys.

I couldn't make out the word for "N". A commenter says it's Ndomo, which Google turns up mostly as the name of Atelier Ndomo in Segou, Mali.

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[q_pheevr]

Or föhn.

N sounds like Ngomo to me (which could be a Cameroonian footballer or a Starfleet admiral, selon Google).

[madfilkentist]

Dictionary.com lists "fohn" as an acceptable though apparently not preferred English spelling. But it's still not pronounced "phone."

[thnidu]

Yes, but that's ef oh-UMLAUT aitch en.

[rymrytr]

I had to DuckDuckGo (I don't "Google" any longer), some of this, until, suddenly, "I saw the light" (Hank Williams Senior).

Liked this:

"The cut shall be at right angles to an imaginary line from the top of the aitch bone through the center of the ham and shank.

Scuse me now, I gotta go find out where, in the pig, is the "H" bone.

Although, "ham" doesn't have to mean 'pig', does it?

I mean, when you "hamstring" a horse, or a sheep, you cut the... I love learning! Especially some esoteric or cryptic bit of (nearly) totally useless trivia.

[thnidu]

Which came first, the pigmeat or the laming? Well, sir, the OED saith (in historical/chronological order):

ham
A. n.¹
 I.
 1.
 a. That part of the leg at the back of the knee; the hollow or bend of the knee.
 b. By extension: The back of the thigh; the thigh and buttock collectively. Usually in pl. [*]
...
 2. The thigh of a slaughtered animal, used for food; spec. that of a hog salted and dried in smoke or otherwise; also, the meat so prepared.
...
[*] Hamlet II.2. Hamlet to Polonius:
Slanders, sir. For the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams-all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.

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hamstring, n.
 a. In human anatomy, one of the tendons (four inner and one outer) which form the sides of the ham or

[rymrytr]

I did a web search for the Lyrics and although quite a few web sites list the "N" before the "M", there are a few which have it in proper order.

some have: Llama, it starts with two L’s, what’s the second one for? No idea, I know loser N for neumonic, M is for mdomo, O is for ouiga board P for pneumonia, pterodactyl and psychosis, Q is for qat

others: Llama, it starts with two L's, what's the second one for? No idea, I know loser M for mnemonic, N is for ndomo, O is for ouiga board
P for pneumonia, pterodactyl and psychosis, Q is for qat

What Alice said: "Curiousier and Curiousier"...

[thnidu]

"neumonic" is a common mistake for "mnemonic", certainly in pronunciation and so not surprisingly sometimes in spelling, presumably by association with the much more familiar "pneumonia", "pneumatic". And as the nasal sounds (/n/, /m/, /ŋ/ = "ng") have low acoustic energy and are relatively difficult to distinguish in general, we should not be in the least surprised that many people, MISSING THE WHOLE DAMN POINT, assumed that "mnemonic" begins with an "n" and dutifully put it in out of order.* -- And how did they get a "g" into "ouija"? Never mind, I know, for most people English spelling is two-thirds guesswork.

*Except that Ed already swapped "I is for irk" and "H is for hour", to get the rhyme with "flour", so there's a precedent in the song.

"Curiouser and curiouser" (no "i" in there)

[hitchhiker]

from the list of N-without-a-vowel words below, NGOMA sounds likeliest to be it. what's the V? couldn't make that one out either.

$ grep ^N /usr/share/dict/csw.txt | egrep -v "^N[AEIOUY]"
NTH pertaining to an indefinitely large ordinal number [adj]
NGAI clan or tribe, as used before the names of certain Maori tribes [n]
NGAIO a New Zealand tree [n -S]
NGANA a horse disease, also NAGANA [n -S]
NGATI (Maori) a tribe or clan [n -S]
NGOMA (Swahili) a type of drum [n -S]
NGWEE a monetary unit of Zambia [n NGWEE]
NKOSI (South Africa) term of address to a superior [n -S]
NGAIOS [n]
NGANAS [n]
NGATIS [n]
NGOMAS [n]
NHANDU a South American ostrich, also NANDU, NANDOO [n -S]
NKOSIS [n]
NGARARA a lizard found in New Zealand [n -S]
NHANDUS [n]
NGARARAS [n]
NGULTRUM a monetary unit of Bhutan [n -S]
NGULTRUMS [n]

[thnidu]

It sounds like he's ending it with an /o/.

Starfleet Admiral Ngomo
Ngomo, Zululand DC, KZN, South Africa
Ngomo, Sankuru, DR Congo
Ngomo, Giteranyi, Muyinga Province, Burundi

V for "vraisemblance" from French and therefore kind of funny

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from the list of N-without-a-vowel words below, NGOMA sounds likeliest to be it. what's the V? couldn't make that one out either.

$ grep ^N /usr/share/dict/csw.txt | egrep -v "^N[AEIOUY]"