The Badder-Meinhoff Phenomenon Strikes Again

I was reading Christopher Hitchens in Slate, and stumbled upon the phrase "a Niagara of cloacal abuse". Having never previously encountered the word cloacal, I looked it up. It is either a "sewer", a "cesspool", or "the common chamber into which the intestinal and urogenital tracts discharge especially in monotreme mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and elasmobranch fishes".

Later, I decided to watch the Futurama episode "30% Iron Chef", and Dr. Zoidberg says, "When the professor finds out, he'll tear me a new cloaca." And that is how I learned how to pronounce cloaca.