Phrases/words that you love

[Serial_Apologist]

(But you could start with a Strumpet Voluntary)

You'll never outdo my puns for sheer awfulness, Anna

[EdgeleyRob]

Welcome to tonights prom.
There are three works.
Parry's elegy for Brahms,Alwyn's violin concerto and George Lloyd's fourth symphony.

[Nick Armstrong]

But you could start with a Strumpet Voluntary

"Bach: Works for Strumpet" ...sounds more like a libellous headline than La Balsom's latest album...

[Anna]

You'll never outdo my puns for sheer awfulness, Anna

Yes, I know, but I get an E for effort? Or, is it an F for feeble?

I think a satisfying word is one which sounds delicious and which you can roll around your mouth before saying it aloud. So, before I go, a few more of ones I love:

Obsequies
Coloratura
Soliloquy
Brindisi
Mille-Feuille
Machiavellian

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes, I know, but I get an E for effort? Or, is it an F for feeble?

I think a satisfying word is one which sounds delicious and which you can roll around your mouth before saying it aloud.

"Mmm - polo, the hint with a mole".

[Richard Tarleton]

I think a satisfying word is one which sounds delicious and which you can roll around your mouth before saying it aloud. So, before I go, a few more of ones I love:

As a birder, I'm particularly fond of
Pratincole
Phalarope
Sanderling

and, er,

Dotterel

[mangerton]

Caliban, Thank you for the Derek and Clive extract. Two of my favourite comedians, in whatever guise, and PC doing the trial summing up must surely be one of the all time greats.

Faces like.... A number of these from a Glasgow pov appeared in the "Herald's" first "Diary" book pub 1991. The books still come out every two years or so, and one of my contributions appeared in the last one.

Here are a few of my favourites. Readers of a nervous disposition should look away now.

.... a blind cobbler's thumb
.... a hauf chewed caramel
.... someone had set it on fire and put oot the flames wi' a shovel
.... that would turn milk soor

If you've taken your brave pills, you could ask, "What're you going to do for a face when Quasimodo wants his a*se back?"

[Nick Armstrong]

Caliban, Thank you for the Derek and Clive extract. Two of my favourite comedians, in whatever guise, and PC doing the trial summing up must surely be one of the all time greats.

Faces like.... A number of these from a Glasgow pov appeared in the "Herald's" first "Diary" book pub 1991. The books still come out every two years or so, and one of my contributions appeared in the last one.

Here are a few of my favourites. Readers of a nervous disposition should look away now.

.... a blind cobbler's thumb
.... a hauf chewed caramel
.... someone had set it on fire and put oot the flames wi' a shovel
.... that would turn milk soor

If you've taken your brave pills, you could ask, "What're you going to do for a face when Quasimodo wants his a*se back?"

That's given me a great laugh in the final hour at the office!! Thanks!

[EdgeleyRob]

Labrador.

[kernelbogey]

Quinquereme

[MrGongGong]

It's interesting that most of these are single words
whereas the other thread is mostly phrases

maybe the problem comes when we try and string words together ?

[kernelbogey]

[fallen into] desuetude

[Nick Armstrong]

Quinquereme

Now you're talking!!

Up there with 'strumpet' and 'dollop', as words I must use more often!

[Roslynmuse]

Oh ho... if we're playing the "Face like a..." game, there's a few others I love too...

A face like a...


...bag of spanners

...smacked a*se

I have two colleagues whose faces are PERFECTLY described thus...

[Nick Armstrong]

I have two colleagues whose faces are PERFECTLY described thus...

Haven't we all!