I just used the word 'hence' in an email

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AIBU to want to punch the air?

Pray tell me your favourite olden day words.

Well I don't talk to "loads" of people so I can't in all honesty say that, but it's a term used in geometry so never really fitted into day to day conversation anyway. And because it's a geometrical term, and still used in that context, it doesn't fit into the OP's question about "favourite olden day terms". Unless you don't know what perpendicular means?

But it is such a lovely precise word. Nothing else really expresses that. I don't know why we don't use it. People say 'parallel' a lot.

This message was in reply to @Whosthetabbynow's rather snotty reply to my comment. The quote didn't attach for some reason.

At right angles to?
I left school several decades ago so many maths terms are olden days to me.

:) it's just not the same though is it - we use 5 words when we could use one

I had a slide rule. It was amazing. We had to write SR at the end of a calculation when we used it.
That's definitely olden days maths.

I don’t say “perpendicular” much outside of giving road directions , but I use “orthogonal” quite a lot metaphorically, as in “These issues are orthogonal”.

Also “On a complete tangent…”!

One of my very favourites is “Do I gather…?”

Never heard orthogonal! I've looked it up and will try to use it this week!

It's a mathematical term. What would you say instead?

"Knocked up" must be used with care. Round my way, it means pregnant - or should that be 'got with child'?

In the family way

In an interesting condition

You don't hear "Has a bun in the oven" as often as you used to.

Well quite, which is why it amuses me to say it. I'm very childish and too old to be actually knocked up.

Was it a polite way of saying knackered?

I always say I’m going to the lavatorium when I’m at home as it sounds much nicer than toilet. Not quite brave enough to use it whilst at work!

'Confinement'- not a word I want back particularly!

No.
There used to be a man called a Knocker Up who tapped on people's windows to wake them up in the days when a lot of people didn't have alarm clocks. He 'knocked them up'. When i was young it meant knocking on your door to see if you were coming out.

The current usage means getting someone pregnant which, I think, comes from America.

My Dad called it the lavatory or just the lav.

My cousin had a rather twee visitor who said she was just popping to the powder room. My cousin's small son was very excited that there was a room in the house he had never heard of.
Im going to powder my nose is posher than going to spend a penny.

My mother used to use the term blackguard (pronounced blaggard) quite a bit, but I haven’t heard it for ages now.

Yes, Jane Austen used it to mean really tired.

Further back it was the privy

Thinking about it, you don't hear being privy to someone's thought. And then, there is: Prithee

Ooh, yes, prithee. That would be an EXCELLENT word to put in a work email. So many work messages are requests to do this or that, it could really take off.

Prithee action point 2 of the meeting minutes.

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