'Of use to neither man nor beast'
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I agree with amateur51 and flosshilde on 'serendipity' and would add the words 'tranquillity', whatever the spelling; 'azure'; and 'ocean'. I like some slightly old fashioned words like 'kindness' and 'grace', their sound as well as their meaning.
The rural names, rather than the latin names, for plants are good, being highly descriptive. And I like the words my late grandmother would regularly mispronounce - 'charabank', 'potato cripps', 'ponnygranite' and 'owdagious', among others.
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"I'll do the dishes"Comment
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Mine too! - I only recall "aggrannoying" at the momentOriginally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Postwords my late grandmother would regularly mispronounce - 'charabank', 'potato cripps', 'ponnygranite' and 'owdagious', among others.
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Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View PostI like the words my late grandmother would regularly mispronounce - 'charabank', 'potato cripps', 'ponnygranite' and 'owdagious', among others.
I'm with you there, Laters!
The only example from my granny I can recall is when she asked me about going to a concert in the Vatican and could I help her sort it out. Bit ambitious, I thought, reaching for the Alitalia timetables...
She meant an LSO concert at the Barbican...
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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at least she asked, and wasn't incistine...Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I'm with you there, Laters!
The only example from my granny I can recall is when she asked me about going to a concert in the Vatican and could I help her sort it out. Bit ambitious, I thought, reaching for the Alitalia timetables...
She meant an LSO concert at the Barbican...I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Nice, ts!Originally posted by teamsaint View Postat least she asked, and wasn't insistine.... 
She were a Methodist, an' all !
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Don't suppose it would matter......
pretty certain they allow Methodists in at the Barbican.
certainly seen the odd method actor there !!
I think i am right in saying that i am the only person in history to have spent a 5 day sight seeing holiday in Rome, and failed to see the Cistine chapel !! DOH !!I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Phlebotomy
Widdershins
Whigmaleerie
Walpurgisnacht
Any of the above (and the preceeding) to be enunciated by Joyce Grenfell or Rowan AtkinsonComment
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Solenoid
Triskaidekaphobia
Kapellmeister
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Nobilmente.
Brahms.
Fussballweltmeisterschaft.
Used to have a genuine 1974 Adidas bag with this on !I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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My mother was a great fan of 'aereated' as in "there's no need to get aereated about it''Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostMine too! - I only recall "aggrannoying" at the moment
My Nain used to recommend the music of the great Finnish composer Sybel-Aye-Us
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For discontinued or no longer available my dad used to say extinct!
"I tried to buy that book but they said it's extinct".
My mum used to make us laugh with drather as in "which would you drather have?".
Oh and windowscreen instead of windscreen.Comment
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