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.

intimate
/ˈɪntɪmət/
As a verb, intimate means to make something known indirectly, or to hint, suggest, or imply. 1, 2]

Key Details and Usage

• Pronunciation: Unlike the adjective/noun (IN-ti-mut), the verb is pronounced IN-ti-mayt.
• Meaning: It describes communicating an idea, thought, or intention without stating it plainly or directly.
• Example: "He has already intimated to us his intention to retire."
• Synonyms: Hint, suggest, imply, insinuate, or signal. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Its a verb and pronounced differently.

Impasse. Also I love the word furtive, though it’s not one I’ve ever got to use in official communications.

I used to be asked by store detectives to witness someone's behaviour before they nicked things. Then I would give a statement to the police saying I had observed the person acting i a furtive manner.

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@DearlyDiego oh I’ve used outwith twice in the last year! First time it just sprang into my head and I had to check its meaning and that was using it right (I was!). I’m not Scottish so no idea what part of my brain I dragged it out from.

I'm sure i posted a reply to this but can't find it. Here goes again:
intimate
/ˈɪntɪmət/
As a verb, intimate means to make something known indirectly, or to hint, suggest, or imply. 1, 2]

Key Details and Usage

• Pronunciation: Unlike the adjective/noun (IN-ti-mut), the verb is pronounced IN-ti-mayt.
• Meaning: It describes communicating an idea, thought, or intention without stating it plainly or directly.
• Example: "He has already intimated to us his intention to retire."
• Synonyms: Hint, suggest, imply, insinuate, or signal. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

It is a verb pronounced differently.

I use hence reasonably frequently.
Impasse is another and I think a pp has mentioned.

I use fortnight, the usage of which is becoming less common due to not being used in American English (maybe wrong on that).

Some of my favourites:

Albeit
Notwithstanding
Furthermore

It's not wrong, sure, but it's still mighty weird, especially the begging. Difficult to picture it being written by anyone other than an ingratiating Dickensian clerk. Uriah Heep, perhaps, or Bob Cratchet.

😂Such a sneaky, feral little word!

I hadn't used that word in years until yesterday, funnily enough, when a colleague asked me where I had bought an item. 'At the ironmongers' was my reply. She is much younger than me and looked confused and sort of, moved away from me.

😂Laughing a lot here!

Ah, glad to see “whence” getting some love!

And despite lots of mentions of “hither” and “hitherto”, nothing for their partners “thither” and “thitherto”!
Hither and thither.
See also “theretofore”

I was recently impressed when, after missing her bus, my 16YO DD described herself as a “nincompoop”. Gentle insults have become far coarser and less gentle in recent years.
Its been a while since I encountered a “silly billy”

I've just been playing around with "forthwith", saying it over and over again for its joyful mouthfeel. It's a switchback ride for your lips and tongue.

Also, is there a kind of synaesthesia in which you get a kind of tactile pleasure from certain words? If so, I have it.

When I was small, someone gave me a little dark brown wooden cube with softened edges and corners. I called it my Ongar Road (after a local street), because it felt in my hands the same way that 'Ongar' feels in my mouth.

What a fabulous language we have! Love this thread 😀

I’m imagining the context, I bet they deserved it 😂

I’d have said how exciting a chance for you to learn a new word. Whilst thinking ffs look it up.

I like moot and egregious - disingenuous is getting a lot of use at work at the moment sadly.

I use that word often, without irony. That and "hitherto".

I completely understand that. Ongar does have a lovely feel.

Once had the absolute pleasure of telling a customer her (totally unjustified) complaint was vexatious - job satisfaction right there.

Bespeak - I just love that word. Much loved by old school lawyers who were fond of bespeaking documents and then perusing them. I have preserved it in my retirement and save it for special things that I get.

Perusal is a fabulous word, but it is definitely underused and needs more people to peruse its meaning and context, rather than shy away from it. (But maybe this is also a moot point, as most won't want to peruse a word meaning that they never use!😆😳)

It is brilliant when you come up with exactly the right word without having to think. Writing gives you breathing space.
I have a lovely Indian friend who uses words like codswallop and parlour. My great aunts had a parlour.

Interesting that we still have Beer Parlours. Do we still have Beauty Parlours?

I didn't know fortnight was becoming outdated. I've always wanted to use sennight (seven nights) for a week but I've always been too embarrassed.

My favorite old time thing to say is to declare myself " knocked up" when I'm tired while out walking, as used in Jane Austen.