This week's theme: odd-looking words.

tohubohu (TOH-hoo-BO-hoo) noun

   Chaos; confusion.

[From Hebrew tohu wa-bhohu, from tohu (formlessness) and bhohu (emptiness).]

-Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org)

  "Our problem is tohubohu. Our industry is drowning in it. But
   somehow, even with all the confusion and disorder, we manage
   to develop systems."
   Jerrold Grochow; Take a Little Tohubohu Off the Top; Software
   Magazine (Englewood, Colorado); Nov 1995.

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