Useful words for the week
Rich and exceptionally flexible though the English language is, it sometimes leaves us struggling for just the right word to describe an object or to sum up a predicament. I particularly like a list of ‘new words’ compiled a long time ago by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones that appeared in either the Not the Nine o’clock News or the Alas Smith and Jones annual, and which I once transcribed into my 1984 Collins A4 page-a-day diary. Well, there can’t have been much else going on that day… There should certainly be words for most of the phenomena and objects listed here, and I can’t see why they shouldn’t be these.
posted by Chris Bell at 10:34 AM
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Would all you guys out there cease and desist from tearing the house down in search of your 1984 Collins diary, A4 or other, to verify Chris Bell's extraordinary revelation. Would anyone deny that George Bush was born in Oxenhope and never learned anything since?
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