Words you don’t hear much these days
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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 14:53 last edited by
Muddle is actually the correct term for mashing and mixing. It’s standard barkeeper’s usage.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 15:10 last edited by
Guess we know who the drinkers are around here....
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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 16:34 last edited by
Chiapet? Is that even a word?
I've been known to use salad days, but I never knew it was from Shakespeare.
I'd never heard the term "bespoke" in the US, but it seems to be slowly working it's way into everyday speech here.Another word I recently used in a text was "addlepated " I just think those kinds of terms are fun!
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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 17:31 last edited by
Virgin
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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 18:18 last edited by Steve Miller 12 Sept 2024, 18:19
Velocipede.
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Chiapet? Is that even a word?
I've been known to use salad days, but I never knew it was from Shakespeare.
I'd never heard the term "bespoke" in the US, but it seems to be slowly working it's way into everyday speech here.Another word I recently used in a text was "addlepated " I just think those kinds of terms are fun!
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 05:08 last edited by
Incandescent (unfortunately)
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wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 17:21 last edited by
Amongst. Unless you’re George R. R. Martin. Although he doesn’t seem to be finishing up his Song of Ice and Fire series, so maybe he’s not using it any more, either.
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Amongst. Unless you’re George R. R. Martin. Although he doesn’t seem to be finishing up his Song of Ice and Fire series, so maybe he’s not using it any more, either.
wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 00:23 last edited by@AdagioM said in Words you don’t hear much these days:
Amongst. Unless you’re George R. R. Martin.
Or wtg.
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@AdagioM said in Words you don’t hear much these days:
Amongst. Unless you’re George R. R. Martin.
Or wtg.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 00:44 last edited by
I actually say both among and amongst. And while and whilst.
I also pronounce either and neither as eye-ther and nye-there instead of ee-ther and nee-ther. Mom had an English boss when she worked in the DP camp in Germany after WWII. I think she picked up some of her pronunciation from being around him. And I from her.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 06:12 last edited by
Grotty
(Feeling miserable and ill
Or describing a place as dirty/nasty) -
wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 06:16 last edited by AndyD 12 Nov 2024, 06:16
I say amongst, though among is standard over here. Never whilst.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 09:44 last edited by
I like the word undulate but don't hear it often and rarely myself do I find it able to withstand my editing.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 09:48 last edited by Daniel 12 Nov 2024, 09:53
I never say amongst nor whilst. I don't know why. All I know is I don't use them and it would be too late to start now.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 09:51 last edited by
I hear the word bemused used often and as many times as I hear it I can't remember its meaning (remember is too strong a word).
I always think of the word amused when I hear it and then draw a blank.
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 11:29 last edited by
I usually say “amongst our weaponry”
IYKYK…
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wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 18:31 last edited by
niggardly
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wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 01:55 last edited by
Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.
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Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.
wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 02:47 last edited by@AdagioM said in Words you don’t hear much these days:
Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.
