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.

Not difficult at all:
FSS. I've just scraped my exhaust on the raised ironmongery on yon carriageway. (for sooth's sake!)

Interestingly, both 'ironmongery' and 'carriageway' came up in my predictive text list here - I must be old!

@Gobbledegoo I referred to someone as our neighbour's fancy piece...I think I was channeling my inner Elsie Tanner. The person I was talking to was horrified.

Floozy 💃

Cavil is a good one.

I love an ironmongers shop. One in my town closed a few years ago when the owners retired.

I say thus far , ghastly and halfwit.

Haven't seen all answers..Is nincompoop ever seen these days?

My son somehow picked it up and used it about one of his friends once and his granny ( my mum) told me she almost fell off her chair when she heard as it was so uncommon..that was about 20 years ago..

I used the word ‘behest’ in an email, much to the amusement of my son-in-law.

We don't have a simple, elegant equivalent. "Outside of"?

Beautiful word

I’m stealing overmorrow. Love the sound of it.

Ergo and notwithstanding.

Plenty of the words here aren't archaic, they're just long.

The words that make me sound old aren't fancy Latinate ones, they're when I say I'm going to the pictures or see what's on the other side (re: TV).

overmorrow, adv. & adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary https://share.google/Jb4B2BX4iB9m9wTVZ

It's a real word, ive heard of it but never used it. The day before yesterday is ereyesterday.

Ergo is a beautiful word

My dc already say to me ‘see you on the morrow’ so now I am going to teach them overmorrow. 😀

My DP says that. I like it, but I also like to eat a lot, so don’t get to use it myself.

How is ereyesterday pronounced? Going to introduce that to my family too 😀

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I love the use of presently, as in now.

Perhaps we should go back to referring to a week as a sennight

I want an opportunity to say/write pusillanimous, first heard (only time I think) was in Look Back In Anger, said by Richard Burton to his girlfriend, (Claire Bloom?), it means a bit of a wet lettuce!

Ooh I want to steal that! Can I say it to my ex?! 🤣

Isn't it used in The Sound of Music when the Mother Superior sings How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria, a flibbertigibbet, a will'o'the wisp a clown? Not sure of the last word!

As long as you didn't say 'hence why....'. That boils my blood.