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 the word obsolescence today, had to look up the spelling. I'm quite fond of prepone, only my Indian colleagues understand it first time

Mine is gainsay

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Ah yes, I also occasionally love to use

Disdain
Endearment
Discombobulated
Droll
Demure
Dauntless
Derision
Codswallop
Boisterous
Foppish

And how could I forget

Fiddlesticks
Hark
Higgledy-piggledy
Histrionic
Implore
Skedaddle

And one of my favourites... poppycock

This is excellent. I will be deploying this henceforth.

In response to long winded email - I do like the word discombobulated in my response.

I also like to opine or decline to opine on something

Once, on my school report, I got: Complete inertia has finally been reached

That is very much from Frankie Howerd (an actor who was very well known in the 1960s and 1970s).

That particular phrase comes from his 1969/1970 TV series "Up Pompeii" and the 1971 film of the same name.

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Just to add to the list of words, I would suggest 'amongst'. And I word that I remember my MIL using before we married - 'flibbertigibbet'.

I use this fairly often (at least once a month)!

I love
Chinwag
A pretty penny
Daffydowndillies
Noggin

Brilliant. I would want it on a T-shirt, for life.

I like “obsequious” but it has sinister undertones because Iago uses it (can’t recall why).

Also “groke” which is Scottish and means something like staring at someone else’s food.

In a Whatsapp hobby group chat, we were discussing changes to a website that we all use. None of us like it and I said that it was now counterintuitive. One person accused me of making it up and two others admitted googling it.

In emails and team chats the challenge for me is to use as many non-English phrases. Especially Cymraeg which will not surprise anyone.

Have managed to use Dutch and French today.

‘Discombobulated’ is my favourite ever word.

I love this thread. I had a great aunt who, when asked if she wanted more food would say “no thank you, I have had an elegant sufficiency”, alternatively an ample sufficiency but I prefer elegant and try to use this phrase wherever appropriate.

Love to use quite a few of words already discussed 😆

Ergo. Try to use as much as possible.

Also, aeroplane mostly when emailing Americans 😂

I use that word fairly often.

I just used the word pernickety in another thread. 🌟

I like thribbertigibet but my nanna also used to call me a thrutchbum when I couldn’t sit still which is a different meaning/circumstance but I’d still put in a very similar category of word.

Albeit and behove are favourites of mine. I like frock too.

My predictive text and bad checking really ruined flibbertigibbet, apologies!

I was wondering about that. I thought it might be a regional variant

Promulgate
Small beer
Wanton
Unaccustomed
'used in anger' (meaning i used something properly for the first time 'in the field' - not with actual anger)
Heavens to betsie!

'Hitherto' and 'henceforth' in the same email was my best ever moment, I think 😀

I’m also quite partial to “cease and desist”, as in the formal notice before legal action. I’ve been known to use it when one of the cats is pestering me -

“Cease and desist, be about your business!” (Spoken sternly with pointing finger)

So much more satisfying than “go away”, and has about the same effect on the cat. Zero.