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.

I used "ample"in a Teams message yesterday. AFAIK the only other person to use this word in the last 60 years was my dear departed mum.

Also <ahem> "Joey said 'hence'."

<Reads thread> ahaha @seahorsessky

God I’m 33 and use most of these all of the time!

Hithertofore gets a bonus point

I love exercising ‘the former’ and ‘the latter’. I also give myself a mental pat for a semicolon.

Alas! So very useful when I’m about to say I’m not doing something. As in “Revenant, are you free to attend this meeting?” “Alas..no”

Prima facie … it is my legal background
Also love the word ‘ inherent ‘. I actually first became aware of this word when I was going through my Mills and Boon phase at the age of 14. .

Telex
Teletext
Forsooth
Perpendicular
Cassette tape
’Pictures’ for cinema
Hogwash
Piffle
Tripe
Peasouper

I'm also fond of "discombobulated", which describes how I feel at this time of year (statutory accounts preparation) 😬

No, it's like Speakers' Corner, plural possessive, which historically is the commonly-accepted and most widely-used term.

It also does belong to the pedants.

Not so much in emails, but I use most of these in speech. I must be insufferable
I also got to say 'deliquesced' the other day in relation to a pear that had been too long in the fruit bowl. DP congratulated me on that one.

I quite like to use "terrific" , but the older meaning.

As per Terry Pratchett -

"Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad."

My mother refuses to use the word toilet and instead used the word ‘latrine’ because this is the word her father used

I love 'pray tell', it is such a beautiful way to ask someone to spill the tea.

Oh, I love "whelmed"
I'm not overwhelmed or underwhelmed I'm just whelmed

Love that word. My sis and I have changed it slightly to: My flabber is well and truly gasted

Also read: clusterfuck

I love looking at 'wrong' spellings & words.
My favourite up to now is bone apple tea..
(I'm sure you've worked it out, but bon appetit..)

Multiplicity.
I can't tell you how much of a warm fuzzy feeling that word gives me!

ETA spelling

Oooh I love an insofar. I also love an albeit, an insomuch and an inasmuch.

Don't mind a notwithstanding either.

I ‘pondered’ in one of my emails last week.

It can be either - it can be used as a plural possessive (it belongs to the pedants), and therefore an apostrophe is used OR it can be an attributive noun (noun modifying another noun) in which case 'Pedants Corner' is more correct, like 'Academics Forum', for example. It's a location / gathering, without possession.

I love the English Language and finding new words to use makes me joyful.

I can still remember reading the word 'melancholy' for the first time; I looked it up in the dictionary and then used it daily, for about 3 weeks.

No, your sister and you have not changed it - One PG Wodehouse was very fond of 'flabber' being 'gasted' in many of his novels!

I used 'churlish' in a letter to a solicitor - she used it in her reply so I think she enjoyed it too.

I am being drawn to pedantry now - but 'whelm' is an older version of 'overwhelm', it also means to cover something entirely, usually disastrously.

I would have smother a scream if I heard you using it as a half-way house between underwhelm and overwhelm, as your post implies!