Word of the Week (month, day, hour, whatever)

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Word of the Week (month, day, hour, whatever)

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Sorry, I just HAVE to do this.

In this Underworld of watch obsessed grammarians, laureates, wannabe writers and literary critics, we occasionally get a word that jumps out and earns a comment in its own right.

Sometimes they are highfalutin, technical, recondite or downright arcane, obsolete, Shakespearean, Johnsonian, Latinate or just plain folksily fantastic words with a little local colour!

No particular rules to this. If you see a word that makes you smile, just quote it, stick it here and attribute it to its originator!

To begin this thread, I have the honour to present the wonderful “rattlebag” from our very own Poet Laureate...
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Hear, hear!

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I was impressed with Avo's "dreich" today.
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atnits wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2020 2:03 pm I was impressed with Avo's "dreich" today.
To be fair IIRC Steve did live north of Hadrian’s wall for a few years! :)

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Scots has a lot of very evocative words, and dreich is definitely one of them. My favourite, though, is

Dwam

If you’re in a dwam you’re a bit zoned out, floaty, not paying attention to what’s going on around you, perhaps paying more attention to whatever wispy thoughts have taken your fancy.

I spend much of my life floating around in a dwam! :lol:
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Can I offer a Welsh word, which is also used when speaking English, which makes it a form of what's called Wenglish in Wales:

Cwtch

A form of tight hug or cuddle, often done side by side on a sofa. "I'm in need of a big cwtch" or "You look like you need a cwtch." Also proven to have medicinal benefits. :)

Pronounced like cootch, if you use the "oo" sound from look or cook (but not coot or root).
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My WotW: Irregardless

Regardless and irrespective of my disdain for the "word" irregardless, I was chagrined to discover three years ago it is now in the Merriam Webster dictionary after reading "The Secret Life of Dictionaries." If anyone is interested, author Kory Stamper is an excellent writer: didactic without being pedantic, and often humorous. Stamper is a former lexicographer and editor at Merriam Webster. She herself was responding to a customer email excoriating MW for including "irregardless" in its latest edition. Retorting MW would never stoop so low, she decided to check the latest edition before sending her emailed response. To her great dismay, the offending word was indeed included. :oops:
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My new goal is to use a word in a post that then gets referenced here!*




*without sounding like I’m obviously fishing for that
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I would have to go with tittle. There are three in this post.
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Martin wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2020 5:35 pm I would have to go with tittle. There are three in this post.
Four, actually.
jkbarnes wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2020 5:29 pm My new goal is to use a word in a post that then gets referenced here!*




*without sounding like I’m obviously fishing for that
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It really doesn’t matter what we do with this thread – it’s just a bit of fun anyway! But I suppose the original idea was that if we saw something written in a forum post that was particularly good in context, we should quote it. Understood of course that it should be someone else’s post, not our own! :lol:
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Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2020 5:38 pm
Martin wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2020 5:35 pm I would have to go with tittle. There are three in this post.
Four, actually.
Three. A full stop is precisely that.
But if you are counting them erroneously it would be five.
Not four.
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Martin wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2020 6:31 pm
Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2020 5:38 pm
Martin wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2020 5:35 pm I would have to go with tittle. There are three in this post.
Four, actually.
Three. A full stop is precisely that.
But if you are counting them erroneously it would be five.
Not four.
Ah, now that’s interesting! I was going with the dots on the letter i (of which I saw four). My apologies if I misunderstood your intention.
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Now I'm confused! There are 4 tittles (dots on the letter i) and 2 full stops, aren't there? :?:
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welshlad wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2020 3:56 pm Can I offer a Welsh word, which is also used when speaking English, which makes it a form of what's called Wenglish in Wales:

Cwtch

A form of tight hug or cuddle, often done side by side on a sofa. "I'm in need of a big cwtch" or "You look like you need a cwtch." Also proven to have medicinal benefits. :)

Pronounced like cootch, if you use the "oo" sound from look or cook (but not coot or root).
I was introduced to this word via a beer https://www.tinyrebel.co.uk/beer/cwtch

I am partial to Tiny Rebel beers, they are brewed in Newport and have been delivering to my house quite regularly during lockdown. The pronunciation and meaning of the word cwtch was explained to me by a colleague who has a Welsh wife.
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iain wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2020 9:52 pm I was introduced to this word via a beer https://www.tinyrebel.co.uk/beer/cwtch

I am partial to Tiny Rebel beers, they are brewed in Newport and have been delivering to my house quite regularly during lockdown. The pronunciation and meaning of the word cwtch was explained to me by a colleague who has a Welsh wife.
Some of their beers are great, others not so.
The brewery is a couple of minutes drive from my house and I regularly spend an evening in the onsite bar/terrace getting extremely pished.
They have a great selection of beers on site with plenty of seasonal offerings and a smattering of non-production concoctions (really don't mind being a guinea pig :D).
One of my favourites was an IPA called 'In and around the mouth'. I say was as they'd stopped brewing it when I last visited.
They also produce a Cwtch gin :roll:, but I don't get involved in that.

A small group of us went on a tour of the brewery last April.
It was informative, yet pretty basic, although I haven't been to any others to make a comparison.
They were in the planning phases for a new distribution centre opposite the brewery such has been the explosion in their popularity worldwide.
No idea how that is progressing though.

Sorry for the slight derailment ...
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