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    RealPlayer
    wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 14:53 last edited by
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    Muddle is actually the correct term for mashing and mixing. It’s standard barkeeper’s usage.

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      wtg
      wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 15:10 last edited by
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      Guess we know who the drinkers are around here....
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      When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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        Nina
        wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 16:34 last edited by
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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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          CHAS
          wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 17:31 last edited by
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          Virgin

          “I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.”—Gloria Steinem to Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Wiser Than Me

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            Steve Miller
            wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 18:18 last edited by Steve Miller 12 Sept 2024, 18:19
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            Velocipede.

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              9 Dec 2024, 16:34

              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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              ShiroKuro
              wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 20:51 last edited by
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              @Nina said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

              addlepated

              Ooh, great word!

              Also @Nina :
              alt text

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                Bernard
                wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 05:08 last edited by
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                Incandescent (unfortunately)

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                  AdagioM
                  wrote on 10 Dec 2024, 17:21 last edited by
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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.

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                    10 Dec 2024, 17:21

                    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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                    wtg
                    wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 00:23 last edited by
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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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                    When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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                      11 Dec 2024, 00:23

                      @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
                      wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 00:40 last edited by
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                      @wtg I usually just say among. Oh! The other thing GRRM says is “whilst.”

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                        wtg
                        wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 00:44 last edited by
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                        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.

                        When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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                          AndyD
                          wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 06:12 last edited by
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                          Grotty
                          (Feeling miserable and ill
                          Or describing a place as dirty/nasty)

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                            AndyD
                            wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 06:16 last edited by AndyD 12 Nov 2024, 06:16
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                            I say amongst, though among is standard over here. Never whilst.

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                              Daniel
                              wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 09:44 last edited by
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                              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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                                Daniel
                                wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 09:48 last edited by Daniel 12 Nov 2024, 09:53
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                                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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                                  Daniel
                                  wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 09:51 last edited by
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                                  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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                                    ShiroKuro
                                    wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 11:29 last edited by
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                                    I usually say “amongst our weaponry”

                                    IYKYK… 😅

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                                      wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 18:31 last edited by
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                                      niggardly

                                      Crazy economist who likes to write about higher education.

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                                        wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 01:55 last edited by
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                                        Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.

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                                          12 Dec 2024, 01:55

                                          Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.

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                                          wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 02:47 last edited by
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                                          @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.

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