I just used the word 'hence' in an email

[GoodGirlFaith]

AIBU to want to punch the air?

Pray tell me your favourite olden day words.

I remember being quite startled, when having an experiment report dictated in a physics lesson at school, that we were instructed to write 'hence' (the phrase was 'hence the bulb stopped glowing', don't ask me what the experiment was though, this was many moons ago 😄)... it sounded Shakespearean to my ears, and quite incongruous in the setting of a science experiment!

And I just remembered that I once used the word 'consequentially' in one of my teenage diaries simply because I thought it sounded really literary, even though I was the only person who would ever read it. Yep, I was a teenage dork. 😄

Impinge.

I love some aplomb. My husband uses it whimsically.

I always think 'aplomb' is kind of visually onomatopoeic - but not sure what I mean by that.....

As a Scottish person i like to put outwith into emails as much as I can.

I saw that one too 😮

My favourite is 'scurryfunge'

I think we used to use 'without' more for this - as in I can't find it within or without. Most famous: There is a green hill far away without a city wall It is outside of the city wall

DS12 quite often says ‘fathom’. His vocabuyis impressive though and is much more mature than his age would suggest.

I would think ere like air. Ere pronounced that way is an archaic word meaning before. Before yesterday.

Assuming you mean pedant and pendant is a typo, Pedant's Corner would be one pedant, Pedants' Corner is multiple pedants.

A long time ago when I was around 14 I was sitting with a boyfriend on a cold step and I said "There ought to be a bench here" I was a born and bred cockney girl but he thought I was so posh using the word "ought".

As long as you didn't say: hence why...

I take my 10 year old grandson out in the 6 weeks holiday. He asked which tube station we were going to walk to and I said "I think they are both equidistant" He loved it and we muck about using the word all the time now.

Yes meant pedant….my iPad is ancient and it’s doing so completely crazy words / spelling, every time I type the there is a lag I can’t actually see what I’m typing until it’s been posted🤦‍♀️ no idea where the extra ‘n’ came from!

gah, I give up, rud tech.

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Gait
Billious

I found myself using the word ‘discomfited’ in conversation yesterday, not sure I’ve ever used it before.

Big fan of hence and whilst in emails.

My phone always types thus when I mean this. I rarely actually want to type thus. 🤷‍♀️

My Mum.used to complain about rheumatism. Nobody has that any more, my phone refused to type it 3 times.

Slumgullion

I like “askance” too - reminds me of the lobster quadrille, a former user name of mine.

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QED

That’s brilliant!

Forthwith, propensity, irascible, preamble