tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post2562913205200886782..comments2024-03-13T07:34:24.149+00:00Comments on The Age of Uncertainty: Jolly Unpleasant...Steerforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-71206104504328987852009-10-02T17:47:07.347+00:002009-10-02T17:47:07.347+00:00I didn't know that, but it makes sense.
As fa...I didn't know that, but it makes sense.<br /><br />As far as bringing certain words back, I'd like to see the return of bounder, cad, rake and fiend. I also agree about <i>wizard</i> and<i> beastly</i>. I'm not so sure about <i>spiffing</i> and "What ho!".<br /><br />Can we bring bowler hats back too?<br /><br />The Jamie Oliver anecdote sums up the insipid self-pity that seems to have replaced stoicism and restraint.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-76484865453863459802009-10-02T15:07:11.528+00:002009-10-02T15:07:11.528+00:00I love words like that (and British understatement...I love words like that (and British understatement). Frightful is interesting because when it originally came into the language it meant timid and it has only meant shocking for the past 300 years or so.Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07615345242334094697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-51675058834731668142009-10-02T11:38:44.674+00:002009-10-02T11:38:44.674+00:00I want to revive the use of "beastly", &...I want to revive the use of "beastly", "wizard", and "beezer".Lucy Fishwifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12468092971495182126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-64298438111187384582009-10-02T10:51:38.462+00:002009-10-02T10:51:38.462+00:00My favourite recent example was that programnme wh...My favourite recent example was that programnme when Jamie Oliver took a load of people and tested their fitness and life expectancy and one huge chap was told he only had three years to live. On being asked how it made him feel he replied:<br /><br />"Obviously I'm gutted"<br /><br />On another note:<br />You don't get much "Nosh" these days or "Grub" especially when connected with "Slap up"Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11137213958804006462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-58008305477877202782009-10-02T06:43:17.395+00:002009-10-02T06:43:17.395+00:00I think we just get bored. Some words get overused...I think we just get bored. Some words get overused - who they hell says "spiffing" any more? - and they fade into disuse. Unfortunately as well as daft expressions sometimes very useful words get dragged along too. I have an old dictionary and it's like a foreign language the number of words that have fallen by the wayside. And there's another one - <i>do</i> we have waysides any more apart from in that expression?<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-62863772393063267222009-10-02T01:47:47.491+00:002009-10-02T01:47:47.491+00:00Hell of a post. Couldn't agree more.Hell of a post. Couldn't agree more.Harry Tournemillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18364647829612042665noreply@blogger.com