It’s one of the English language’s weird words for food that doesn’t sound appetizing at all. rd.com, Getty Images. Skirl. This word describes the shrill, wailing sound made by bagpipes.

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Tricky enough, in fact, to land a spot in grammarian Mignon Fogarty’s “101 Troublesome Words You’ll Master in No Time” (St. Martin’s Griffin). “Noisome sounds like noisy,” Fogarty ...