Funny Nonsense Words
Words may be invented to sound funny. Instances include many works by Dr. Seuss; Goon Show scripts, which often included funny nonsense words, such as ploogie, plinge, lurgy (lurgi), ying-tong-iddle-i-poh and needle-nardle-noo; and the Knights who say Ni scene from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Famous quotes containing the words funny, nonsense and/or words:
“This funny thing called love.”
—Cole Porter (1893–1964)
“Life’s nonsense pierces us with strange relation.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 2:4.
The words reappear in Micah 4:3, and the reverse injunction is made in Joel 3:10 (”Beat your plowshares into swords ...”)