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.

Aver - I used it first in a University assignment paper and was unreasonably annoyed (though I kept my emotion to myself) when a fellow student said “Oohh I’m pinching that!”

I'm fond of the word 'marvellous' when spoken.
Heavy emphasis on. first syllable.

I like using the word queer to mean peculiar.

Used correctly, hence is relatively rare these days, but using it WONGLY followed by "why" is an abomination extremely popular among those who think they have a better grasp of English than they actually do.

I have no problem with people using the word "so" instead of attempting to sound clever and spaffing up "hence".

Come hither….
my nan used to say it, I now said it to my dog when I’m getting her collar and lead on for a walk. . It’s an old phrase that just kind of stuck in our house.

You should never use the word "WONGLY" on a day with a 'y' in it. 😉

I'm not sure I've ever used it, but I'm quite fond of "ergo". Also, "hither and yon" is quite pleasing, as is "inasmuch as".
I once read that the Duke of Wellington was fond of using "I must advert you to the fact that..." in his communications with his subordinates, but I doubt I'm brave enough to use it.

I say hence all the time 🤣

I used to use the word 'perused' a lot but colleagues told me they didn't know what it meant and that is sounded old fashioned.

I think I'll start using it again now that I have changed jobs.

I like "outwith" too; also "dreich" - a lovely word describing typical grey, dismal weather (although that wasn't the case during the last few months!). I only know them because I have a Scottish friend; I live in England and most people here wouldn't know what they mean, so I don''t really use them. (I have seen them used online many times).

I also use the word "hence"!

😂😂. I'm such a doofus sometimes! 😣😫😫😫

I love all of these very much!

I also heard someone say 'unquestionably' on the radio earlier this week and I think I will start using that, too, in place of 'absolutely.'

If I really want to overdo it, I try to cram these in somewhere 😂
Hitherto hereforesaid
Notwithstanding
Therein

Satnav!

Yes I use outwith; it's a commonly used in Scots law.

I love whilst, and use it as much as humanly possible.

😂

Notwithstanding
Wireless ( as in the thing you listen on which you to Radio 4)

I adore the phrases “on the ‘morrow”, “ anecdotal evidence” and “nay, nay, and thrice nay”
I also get a buzz out of “albeit”.

I'm a big fan of ergo.

My favourite word is "Shitshow". My boss prefers: "We have several challenges" 😘

Seen on road signs : Beware raised ironmongery in the carriageway
just love it! Difficult to use in conversation though.

“nay, nay, and thrice nay”

Oh, I am using this today if I can shoehorn it in anywhere.

Oh I love 'come hither'. I sometimes use it at work, which is fun.

I like squeezing the odd 'hence' or an 'albeit' into an email occasionally too. I think I get away with it because I'm older than most of the people I work with and they don't seem to think it's weird.

A colleague came into my office this morning and used the word 'kerfuffle'. Not particularly old fashioned, but a lovely word.

Some of these words aren’t just old fashioned, but are of the sort of managing clerk speak that was used in the mid 20th century by people who were not particularly well educated but who ran offices and thought that letters had to be written in a sort of contorted formal and archaic style to make them seem official and decisive.

They would write in the third person and would never use a short word if they could think of a longer one. Direct language seemed almost rude.

“We write in response to your letter of the 3rd ult and refer you to ours of the 18th inst, to which we do not appear to have received a reply. We look forward to hearing from you by return.”

If anyone remembers ult. inst. and prox. then they are pretty old.

I am always bemused to get an email asking me to respond “by return“. “By return“ of what? By return meant by return of post. What conceivable relevance can that have to emails?

Thus, hitherto, aforementioned, therein