http://www.wordnik.com/lists/compounds-that-look-freakish.xml You know who you are, <a href="/words/freakish">freakish</a> <a href="/words/compound">compound</a>s. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) <a href="/words/component">component</a> words suggest that it is <a href="/words/patently">patently</a> unfair to non-native English speakers (which, at some point in our lives, is everyone). 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