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.

Have you seen this card? https://www.comedycard.co.uk/products/humorous-greeting-card-owls-to-whom?srsltid=AfmBOoqUTfWubNio1Ylu9kew2ERyl_NYo2q7M8gcWs2d7gb0dQ11_YSf

Speaking of mathematical words, my Dad used to say 'base over apex' - it was his polite form of 'arse over tit'.

Alacrity- and as someone up threat noted, bonus points if they try to correct it to clarity 😀

Yes, and wireless
Reminiscing about that one the other day

Now I really want to write an email using the word viz.

ExDP has a very old-fashioned vocabulary. He says ‘wireless’ and ‘beastly”.

I work with Americans who think I’m being quaint when I use perfectly ordinary words like “fortnight” and “bespoke”, so I love to drop in the occasional “codswallop” or “notwithstanding” to confirm their secret suspicions that Four Weddings is all but a documentary.

I want to know how inherent is used in a Mills and Boon novel now. Is it something that might brush up against a lady's quivering core?

My favourite is capable of. As in 'I would be grateful if you could explain how not returning a teams call before 7am was deemed capable of supporting 16 separate disciplinary processes and my client being court martialled, you careless sense-botherers'

I immediately thought of the word thus as well.

Is it something that might brush up against a lady's quivering core?

No, that'd be the 'undeniable proof of his manhood.' 😂 Or something along those lines...

A lady’s quivering core - fabulous 🤣🤣 is that when she sees his manhood straining through his tight trousers? Love it 🤣

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Be careful - 'hence' is a gateway to the much more hardcore 'whence'.

My absolute favourites that only I seem to ever use: acquiesce and acquiescence. Very pleasant to see written too! I do have a very old fashioned vocabulary though and most of the words on this thread I use frequently!

I got torn apart on here by a poster who said nobody uses ‘whom’ 🙈 I love my use of language even if some think it is dated

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Brava OP! 👏👏👏

Thrice

Someone upthread mentioned ‘thrice’. I remember my youngest, when he was about 9, saying ‘not just twice, but thrice.’ I couldn’t stop laughing because it sounded so bizarre coming from such young child. He definitely said it for comic effect. I told him how impressed I was that he knew the word😅

Re thrice, there is something extremely lovely about all words that begin with 'th' followed by a consonant.

Thrice
Thwart
Thrive
Thrall

<happy sigh>

It would be good to write a work email that included all of these.

Another gorgeous word is quench.

The prevalence of Mills and Boon!

My nearly-19 year old ds2 told me to "Stop lollygagging" on holiday last week. We're fans of old-fashioned or odd words in this house.

Erstwhile (kidding)

Also, to be pedantic, the word 'both' is redundant there.

I see “suppose to” instead of “supposed to” used quite often on MN.