Words that don't exist in English:

[LemonMeringueThreePointOneFour]

Alot
Eachother
Ect
Inbetween
Infront
Non
Thankyou
Que
Wether

Please feel free to add your own.

@Hummmph

I thought of the German word verschissen the other day. It means someone has done something so upsetting or annoying that you are genuinely and eternally through with them. I wish there was an English equivalent.

'NC'

@SequinnedShawl

Que is a real word - for example, to que someone when to do or say something i.e. a prompter im a theatre or a stage management assistant queing someone that they are next due out on the stage

No. That's cue

Cancel the cheque

Ect is electroconvulsive therapy.

Ect is electroconvulsive therapy.

But you know that's not what people are saying, right?

@Lunaduckdrop

Has anyone heard of a "gribbly"?. This is an elastic rope with hooks on the end and is used for securing stuff to a car roof-rack or suchlike. Only I'm not sure whether one of our family made it up!

I would call that a bungee cord.

I would really like an option to filter out the snide posts about spelling and just see the lovely posts about languages.

Why do people feel it's OK to police other people's use of language? Language is a living, evolving concept and it is ridiculous, classist and ableist to hold writing on social media posts to the same standard as formal correspondence.

And yes, I would describe myself as 'woke'

Favourite German word is Backpfeiffengesicht, literally a face that is crying out for a slap!
English language is great, so many influences from German, French and Indian words that we have adopted.
I would use melancholy/melancholic for intense longing, and cramp for muscle pain though!

@TranquilityofSolitude

Not quite where you started, but I want a word for my daughter's MIL. We're friends and live around the corner from each other, so often need to introduce the other to someone and there's just no good word for our relationship. We end up saying "our children are married to each other", which feels a bit inadequate.

You need the word 'besan'. Malay for 'my child's in-laws".

@Athenajm80

I don't know how you spell it, but Suzie Dent introduced me to a word (via the Something Rhymes with Purple podcast) "Laojenic" [lay-oh-jen-ick] which means someone who is attractive from afar but not when they're close up. It's a Filipino slang word I think. I have a book called Tingo which is words that appear in other languages but not English. I haven't actually started reading it yet, but I bet there are some great words in there that I need to start using.

We'd call the first type of person 'a Monet'

I love the Scottish word "to thole"

It means to bear [something] reluctantly and always has to have an object.

Dreich is a good one too. Describes the weather here today perfectly.

Pitcher instead of picture. Richard Osman does it. He doesn't have difficulty in pronouncing the letter c in other words. It's a bit of a fashion. He isn't the only one who does it. They can all say pick, so why not manage pic-ture, or pic-cher.

Might sound a little bonkers here but I’d like words for

a very specific type of big fat rain you can sometimes get in summer which somehow doesn’t seem to get you as wet as it should (often in a shower)

Also

A very specific type of fine drizzle (often in autumn /winter) that gets you absolutely bloody drenched, more so than you would expect.

A very specific type of fine drizzle (often in autumn /winter) that gets you absolutely bloody drenched, more so than you would expect

This is known in our house as "the sort of rain that gets you wet" which isn't the shortest description ever but it makes us laugh.

I'm sure some of these words feature in The Meaning of Liff:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff#:~:text=In%20The%20Deeper%20Meaning%20of,and%20Douglas%20Adams's%20daughter%20Polly.

Gezellig is a nice Dutch word, that means cosy, as in you have a get together with friends, and it's gezellig. Kinda similar to hygge.

‘ano’ for I know 🤯.

a very specific type of big fat rain you can sometimes get in summer which somehow doesn’t seem to get you as wet as it should (often in a shower)

Ooh yes, I know exactly what you mean. All our words/phrases for rain, we should have one for this.
Big fat rain is not something I’ve heard before, but I like it.

@Isthisit22

Guttered

It's a word in Scotland. It means very very drunk.

@PinkSkiesAtNight

Agujetas: muscular pain that comes specifically from exercise. As in 'Tengo (I have) agujetas' From Spanish

In Shetland, we have three words for it.

Spaegie (most common)
Hansper
Kreeks

@everythingthelighttouches

Might sound a little bonkers here but I’d like words for

a very specific type of big fat rain you can sometimes get in summer which somehow doesn’t seem to get you as wet as it should (often in a shower)

Also

A very specific type of fine drizzle (often in autumn /winter) that gets you absolutely bloody drenched, more so than you would expect.

Where I am in Ireland we use the term 'misting' to describe a very fine drizzle...you'd still get fairly wet if you were out in it for long though.

A short summer shower is a sun shower.

@2Two

Defiantly when you mean definitely Restbite

I used to see ‘restbite’ a lot on a forum for carers of people with dementia. But even a grumpy old pedant like me couldn’t get too worked up about it - the poor things were desperate for a ‘bite’ of ‘rest’ so there was some logic to it.

Has anyone mentioned tumeric yet?

It's turmeric.

I miss the days of being able to 'show all messages'.

farfelu in French. It means sort of 'floopy' (à la Phoebe in Friends).

@everythingthelighttouches isn’t that kind of very fine, misty rain known as ‘mizzle’ (presumably a cross between mist and drizzle) in the far SW of England? We’re not from the far SW but we use ‘mizzle’ when it’s mizzling.

I was going to say mizzle for that too @gettinglikemymother

And I'm pretty far away from the SW of England.