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But I thought BestMate was his name?
Offshore | 06.02.21 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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Kickabout and mindset are in my 2011 Chambers. Unfortunately muppetry is not.
Alan | 06.02.21 - 8:19 a.m. | #
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My spell checker doesn't recognise 'lockdown'.
davews | 06.02.21 - 8:26 a.m. | #
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My heartiest contrafibularities for this post.
daveid76 | 06.02.21 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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Does the dictionary recognise Cheesemonger or Cheesemongers instead of Cheesemongery?
lockedintheattic | 06.02.21 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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Pedant alert: the second "comparative" (touristiest) looks like a superlative.
Ian | 06.02.21 - 8:38 a.m. | #
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My spellchecker, Word, was happy with:
creekside, mindset, woodsmoke, zoomable, cablecar, postwar, southeastern, skybridge, orangier, BestMate
Bryn Davies | 06.02.21 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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The English language is a bit like your description of the track below, a well defined path with extensive muddy areas off to the sides.
Still Anon | 06.02.21 - 8:54 a.m. | #
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I'm not convinced that an adjective can have a tense!
Tim W | 06.02.21 - 9:07 a.m. | #
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Oh freddled gruntbuggly thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Toni | 06.02.21 - 9:14 a.m. | #
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I almost only use dangleway as the name for the cable car in London, and quite a lot when referring to cable cars elsewhere. It's become so normal to me that I accidentally used it in a meeting with the top managers of the Emirates Air Line.
I took an instant liking to jabbee, and will be using it in everyday conversation from now on.
Peter of London | 06.02.21 - 10:01 a.m. | #
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dangleway - what a unique contribution you've made to language
Caroline | 06.02.21 - 10:09 a.m. | #
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The date perhaps indicated that the Chambers Dictionary was purchased at the start of university life.
My library card gives on-line (online?) access to the Oxford English Dictionary - maybe the Tower Hamlets version does too.
Man of Kent | 06.02.21 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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How did you find the time to do this? Just copying and pasting half a year's blog entries would have made my mousefingers ache.
Bob L-S | 06.02.21 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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I still regard 'Perrinesque' (Jan 18), as the best DG made up word. It needed no further explanation and summed up the very essence of a particular street perfectly.
I cannot argue with the definition of a dangleway.
MO | 06.02.21 - 10:46 a.m. | #
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“How did you find the time to do this?” may be the unnecessariest question I’ve been asked all year :)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.02.21 - 10:53 a.m. | #
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"Jabbee" is an absolute winner. Thank you for your contribution to the Englyshe tongue.
Jan | 06.02.21 - 11:17 a.m. | #
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A sign of an excellent creative writer.
JJ | 06.02.21 - 11:17 a.m. | #
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touristiest is up there with one of my favourites, but a recent contender of jabbee has taken the crown.
R2 | 06.02.21 - 11:43 a.m. | #
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As a jabbee since last Tuesday, I shall enjoy using the word
AlanBG | 06.02.21 - 12:08 p.m. | #
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I have a Chambers's Dictionary, which sounds tortuous. Mine is from the 70s. Have they since dropped the apostrophe and "s"?
Andrew S | 06.02.21 - 1:03 p.m. | #
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I love it. Hated English at school and now all the rules they need to learn for exams does my head in, but love it for the sheer fun of making up new words! Roald Dahl was a master of it.
Cornish Cockney | 06.02.21 - 1:49 p.m. | #
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Parklet is a nice word. A small park?
Leuconoe | 06.02.21 - 2:09 p.m. | #
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The Torontonians (Torontonees?) call them parkettes, which I think I prefer.
anothertim | 06.02.21 - 2:15 p.m. | #
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I've noticed you often write "thank you" as one word. Most dictionaries would only consider this correct if "thankyou" is being used as a noun rather than the usual verb pronoun combination. I assumed you did so knowingly and intentionally, but interestingly it's not included in your list of words where you are being economical.
dg writes: 'thankyou' is not undersquiggled.
James | 06.02.21 - 4:02 p.m. | #
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Must not forget BOLX
scrumpy | 06.02.21 - 5:30 p.m. | #
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I don't read your excellent blog in the guise of an English language teacher. I read it to enjoy it.If the occasional incorrect spelling or grammar sticks out like a sore thumb,it shows me that I am concentrating on the posts.
I thought that BestMate was a nickname. Please carry on the good work,from a ten-day (1st) Jabbee!
Jo W | 06.02.21 - 5:40 p.m. | #
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I looked up dangleway when I first encountered it. Turns out it has a provenance.
uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/London_Dangleway
dg writes: nah
Scott Denny | 06.02.21 - 6:50 p.m. | #
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Love how that linked post above this comment about the Dangleway also includes the term 'loansharkery'!
RG | 07.02.21 - 5:44 a.m. | #
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The english language is a great playground. My love of an inventive turn of phrase is one reason this blog is always a joy to read.
NickW | 07.02.21 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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Ultimately, all words are made up.
Jonathan Wadman | 07.02.21 - 3:43 p.m. | #
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Those all look like perfectly cromulent words that certainly embiggen the English language.
Jan | 08.02.21 - 9:58 a.m. | #
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from Haggard Hawks on Twitter ...
"To OVERMUSE is to tire yourself out by thinking."
Caroline | 09.02.21 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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