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 love using the word fruitless in conversations 🤣

How is that an "old timey" word?

It's just a mathematical word.

Guising - not trick or treating.

I see your "hence" and raise you "thence".

Now I would have said “plethora” there. “Embuggerment” was a great favourite of Kingsley Amis, superb writer though nasty human being.

Egregious.

Somebody told me in an email today that they were going to expedite something and I felt very happy about that.

I also like insofar.

We sometimes get invoices in work with the wording "X begs to intimate" what you owe us etc. Very odd phrasing!

I got 'I append for your perusal' the other day.
How should I have responded?
Not sure 'I've perused you appendage' would mean what I wanted it to mean.

Along with 'myrmidon' I am doing my utmost to repopularise 'rapscallion'.

‘To wit’ is a good one.

‘In situ’ was a favourite at my last job.

‘Via’ I use quite a lot at work.

I love the word ‘ chagrin’

Henceforth
Erstwhile
Hideous
Beloved

I adore plethora

His inherent girth?

Hobbledehoy
Gamp
Defenestrate

I love using...
Hark (I once said to my daughter 'Hark at that wind' and she replied 'Where are you? Wuthering Heights?' Followed by us both crying with laughter for about 15 minutes!
Myriad, albeit and peruse/perusal are used a lot in my work emails.

My 93 year old MIL who struggles considerably with her memory and was calling herself senile, suddenly corrected herself and said 'That should probably actually be 'anile'. I had never heard of it so Googled it and she was spot on!
'Anile is an adjective that means being, resembling, or characteristic of a feeble, doddering old woman, often implying physical or mental weakness'

Slightly off topic, but why does 'spill the TEA' seem to be taking over from 'spill the BEANS'? I have seen it a lot just recently and I was wondering if it is an Americanism creeping in?

I remember the advert: The water in Majorca don't taste like what it oughta

Wasn’t that in My Fair Lady or am I misremembering.

Parsimony and ubiquity...

Love this thread , I use most of these words as often as I can. I never seem to hear anyone else say any of them.

I have rescue cats they have a lot of these words used at them, which they ignore, as they are too busy with their crazy shenanigans (aka chase or hide and seek).

I have my new favourite book next to me words for life. I’m reading ten words a night before I go to sleep.

I expect it is inspired by: The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!

Ah of course!

Overmorrow is my DD2's favourite word. Mine is fungible. I've never worked out how to put either in a work email though.

i love it when the word ‘whom’ is used correctly