Phrases/words you love which should be used more

[LezLee]

= The plotlines of Call the Midwife.

[LMcD]

Describe anyone in particular?

in the words of our greatest-ever fictional PM, 'I couldn't possibly comment'.

[Serial_Apologist]

Autodidiact - which describes Yours Truly pretty much, given that I learned little at school. And polymath, notwithstanding its jack-of-all-trades, master of none implications undoubtedly applying in my case!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Time for this week’s episode of interpretations on record

[Beresford]

Family words which I like:

Kerfufle
Purloined
Pantechnicon
Bamboozle (as painted on the front of a school I saw in India "No Bamboozlement Here")
Crikey Moses!

[Jonathan]

Hoik, Deploy and minion to name but 3...

[Serial_Apologist]

Family words which I like
Pantechnicon

A geeky person who worships Pan

One could have fun with this sort of thing!

[johncorrigan]

It means a row or fracas, and by extension general mess or turmoil... (Scottish word)

It being Burns Day today, we had a community event in the local school at lunchtime, with some food and music and art stuff. I got the badgemaker out and offered people the chance to choose their favourite Scots word and put it onto a badge. I was amazed at how many of the oldies got into it. The favourites were: Glaikit (a wee bit stupid), Bahooky (bottom), gallus (confident), Bowfin' (smelly), scunnered (fed up), bizum (pest, nuisance) and wheesht (shut up). Normally it's the kids that want to make badges, but today I had a queue o' auld yins!

[Pulcinella]

Recalcitrant (not that I want to have more such behaviour in class!).

Thinking about it, perhaps 'Please' and 'Thanks' could be in the list too.

[Serial_Apologist]

Recalcitrant

That would be "boiling a kettle full of hard water for the second time".

[kernelbogey]

Lucubration.

(Especially on this Forum.)

[greenilex]

Have just remembered

Scintillate

because of the other thread. Starry night reminds me of Van Gogh.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Have just remembered
Scintillate
because of the other thread. Starry night reminds me of Van Gogh.

I have outlived my youthfulness

so a quiet life for me

Where once I used to scintillate

Now I sin

Till ten past three.

Roger McGough

[Nick Armstrong]

I have outlived my youthfulness

so a quiet life for me

Where once I used to scintillate

Now I sin

Till ten past three.

Roger McGough