The word flaccid itself is too flaccid to define the word flaccid .

This one is new to me, but I can clearly see it as a Briticism.

I used to be a drummer of sorts in the high school band. They trusted me with the bass drum. It isn't much good at crescendo. They said I was too dangerous to be trusted with the tympani [kettle drums]. A good tympanist can out crescendo any other musician.

Here in the hinterlands of Texas we call soft drinks Sodey-wadur.
Our Appalachian cousins call it dope.

David, I also abstain. Alcoholic beverages do much more harm than good. On the other item, I am too old to cut the mustard.

This is a very amusing good word. Remember the world owes us rednecks for its creation. Who says we haven't created a lot of good stuff here in the hinterlands.

My mother-in-law was a court reporter. She recorded a lot of depositions.

The first time I heard the phrase "truck farm" I visualized a pickup truck with its bed filled with soil and with vegetables growing in it. I am wiser now but not particularly happy about it.

Hitler married his mistress just before their mutual suicide. Why do you suppose he did that? Was that an act of Grace?

This puts me in mind of the wiener or weenie. I don't eat the nauseating scraps of whatever comes from the bottom of the barrel. I have heard that in Frankfort they are called wieners and in Vienna they are called frankfurters. Nobody wants to claim them. Shades of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle....

I deleted my original reply here because I inadvertently used a word I never use.

We call these moving stairs escalators whether they are moving upward or downward. The same kind of use is employed in elevators or the British lift. There is a book titled "Up the Down Staircase". It took place in a school. If one is three sheets to the wind, he/she might not know up from...

Mechanics may use a Crescent wrench. This is a patented adjustable wrench.

I put words into my personal Lexicons to describe my acquaintance with them. First is words not in any of my lexicons. I may guess what they mean or not care at the time. They may or may not advance into my recognized lexicon. My recognized lexicon holds words I have heard and sort of know what they...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4JwusE0GYs -- Light fantastic!