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2 unusual facts about Balderdash


Balderdash

A television game show based on the game aired on PAX (later i; the network is now Ion Television) with comedian Elayne Boosler as host.

BrainTeaser

The principle is similar to Call My Bluff or the board game Balderdash; the words are generally less obscure than those featured in these games, but still unusual enough to challenge most players.


L-vocalization

Before coronal consonants, this produced Alderney, alter, bald, balderdash, bold, cold, false, falter, fold, gold, halt, hold, malt, molten, mould/mold, old, palsy, salt, shoulder (earlier sholder), smolder, told, Wald, Walter and wold (in the sense of "tract of land").

Malcolm Gluck

Gluck's other controversial statements include, "Terroir is rubbish. It is complete utter balderdash from the first syllable of its pretentious and mendacious utterance to its last".


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