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pettifogging: “to quibble over insignificant details”
I use 'tjagaining' for that.
Schooled by my 6 year old today...commutative; its a maths term I'd never heard before
The late, great Jake Thackeray managed to sneak "pettifoggery" into one of his songs.
Komorebi.
Gloomth
Dimsey
Another random selection...
Frisson.
Chasuble.
Cassock.
Endogenous.
Sclerotic.
Miasma.
Paradiddle (either single or inverted).
Erinaceous.
People often say that the Americans cheapen our language. But they use "yonder" which is a lovely word. But they have a bigger country than us, with big skies, so maybe it's more pertinent over (I was going to say Yonder) there.
Jings, crivens, help ma boab
Boaby
Boondoggle
Boaby
We risk straining the boaby shaft!
Can she call her sister ship the Sticky Clinker?
Thrutch
Casuist
Proclivity
Prestidigitation.
Syntactical (inexactitude).
Misanthrope/misanthropic.
Contrapuntal.
Arcane, boys. Known by the crew but no one else.
People often say that the Americans cheapen our language. But they use “yonder” which is a lovely word. But they have a bigger country than us, with big skies, so maybe it’s more pertinent over (I was going to say Yonder) there.
There are parts of America, like Appalachia, where they still speak a form of Elizabethan English, (that’s Elizabeth I, not II), and in the 1700’s, apparently, the US senate were complaining about how English terms were intruding on their language!
See Bill Bryson’s ‘Mother Tongue’.
‘Fall’ is Old English, for example.