My Favourite Words That Start With C

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Good evening, and welcome to Dan Bain's Sleepy Time Mumbles, a podcast you can miss. I'm Dan Bain. Every episode I improvise a low stakes podcast for you to fall asleep to. He's back, is he? Back again. Finished up your project, did ya? And then it's crawling back to the old sleep podcast. Yes, friends, I have returned, and here we are again. A pleasure to once more mining into the lustrous seams of dream in the sweet unconsciousness of sleeping. I really felt like I was going somewhere with that one, but no. This is a throwback style episode. I think it might have been episode three or four, which was my favorite words that start with T. I think it might have been in the day when I thought the function of the podcast was for me to do a lot of different character voices. I'll still do that occasionally, but the data seems to suggest that the piece is at its best with a mildly amusing improvisational topic that is both mildly amusing and also incredibly banal. Yet sometimes I must admit I I am tempted to add a small degree of theatricality, but I fight that the best I can. Along with about fifty the fifty, maybe more than that. First episodes of the show is a little perk that the subscribers get along with a little micro sleep, a short ten minute exclusive subscriber exclusive exclusive for subscribers. We've done maybe six or seven of them this year. Yeah. That's an anyway, it's an old school style of episode that I feel like I maybe thought it was going to be a recurring feature. So much in the way that I do the radio hit albums or a Halloween one or the fake Dungeons and Dragons one. Um yeah, I thought this was going to be a recurring one, but no. Turn off your screens and close your eyes. Now it's time to be mumbled to sleep. Season seven episode seven. C is for cookie, and that's good enough for cookie monster. That's also good enough for me. I have oh I have many favorite words. Probably top five crabs. Particularly with children, another C-word there, less favorite. Um when they ask what is your favorite animal? And or there's something about saying crabs that gets them all riled up. What superpower would you like to crabs? Anyway, that's a good one. Other top fives curmudgeonly. I think that's a great word. I don't know if it's a great thing. Quality good stuff there. Another one I greatly enjoy Crepuscular. Oh that's a good one. What's that even mean? I think it means like twilight. Like a quality of light. The sort that you get at dusk. That's a very specific definition there, so I really hope it's correct. Correct. Correct. To wreck together. We co-wrecked it. Cooperation. I quite like it. It's a good word for a good thing. Comorbidity, I also enjoy for the uh words with the kind of co prefix comorbidity. Yeah, that's a pretty good one. Coco. I love that. Little repeated syllable. Good. That's a good word. Copilot. Used to feel better about that, but I believe it's now the name of Microsoft's AI or something. That ruins it. Conjunctivitis. That's what a name. What a name for an eyeball illness. What do you got? Illness of the eyeball? Yeah. Ah. Conjunctivitis, is it? Are you a little conjunctive? That's a good one. Collagen. You know, the state of attending college. College in. Um, I don't know when this became my favorite wordplay around words that start with say I'll try and refrain. It's a little how shall I say insufferable comet coma coma comb cosine cosine cosy co cheese. Oh, that was good. What a what a what a run of professional improvisation. Quality contender. Contender Cobra. Both the snake and the paramilitary organization. Yes, plays. Cobra Commander Cored of Conduct Comb on the Cob Crackling Coherency Captivating Cabaret Cool Commando Commander Commanding Cabbage. Carrot. Really on the vegetables here. Is that all of them? Cabbage, carrot, corn, cauliflower. Capsicum. There's quite a few. Cotatoes. Coexel. A lot of co words. This is some what about cr cry me a river? Crowbar. That's a good one. I do like that actually. Crowbar. What's a crow got to do with that? Probably they're naughty. Also, just crows. Ugh, so good. Top ten Corvids for sure. Probably top five. Constantinople. Ah or Istanbul. Well, Estanbull doesn't meet the criteria, does it? Only Constantinople. Also a good word. Conflagration. That's a real good one. That's a real like you really want to do a big word when something's really on fire. And that's a good one. Chimera. A word that for many years I pronounced chimera. Because you know, I had that thing where you read the words, but you've never actually heard them used uh in a sentence. And so you just say them the wrong way. If you're lucky, uh people will kindly correct you, and if you're unlucky, they will not. Colonel. You know, here's the colonel. The well there's the major, there's the captain, and then there's the colonel. Yeah, sorry, colonel. Um not one of my favorite words. Let's start with C Colonel Yeah. Bottom bottom one hundred crying confusion consternation cramming chicken. I eat a lot of chicken. Yeah.

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Not a lot of read me particularly.

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But I must say I do uh yeah, I do eat quite a lot of quite a lot of chicken. I'm really I wouldn't go so far as to say struggling to find more words that I enjoy that start with C, but what I'm really coming up against is um uh the Q sound and to an extent the K sound. Uh yeah, where they have kind of foregrounded themselves in my consciousness. Uh and a a kind of kind of um dominating the the the mental space. I suppose you would describe it um comedy, comedian comic career. Anyway. See, that's a that's the K sound. Um, some other words that start with C that I really enjoy are um crevass, it's close relative crevice, um canyon combination combine harvester collective Cadbury's. I don't actually like Cadbries, that's down the list. Once the most trusted brand in New Zealand, isn't that a fun fact? And now it's just kind of garbage chocolate, just garbage chocolate. Yeah. All right, let's finish strongly. Here we go. Cat cockatoo coracle coracle. You know, coracle little skin boat, little boat made out of hide. You know what a coracle is? Yeah, of course you do. Coral cores core like the molten core, the apple core hoor capitulate. There's a good one. That's uh on the end of you know, capitulate like to like to give up to concede that was season seven, episode seven. My favorite words that start with Cambane's Sleepy Time Mumbles is produced by Noose Doctopus Theatre, etc. And is uh created and presented by me, Dan Bain. Subscribe and like rate and review, click on the link wherever you find podcasts until next time. Good night and sleep night.