Hey, David. I am still able to sit up and take nourishment and i still respond to Goodword postings. In the past, this thread was a fun romp. I still double space after a period or question mark. However, I take no umbrage to having one space deleted by an automated editor. As I age I mellow. No lon...

Crepitation comments have been thought provoking. It is a good reason for loving the Agora. Thank you one and all.

And then there are the cartoon birds named Heckle and Jeckle.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIpTVU3Ddlo.

Thanks David. I like true stories.

bnjtokyo: I Googled "charabanc" then selected "Images: and get a plethora of pictures of charabancs. Back to the good word Mountebank. Here in the hinterlands we call them "snake oil peddlers". I grew up in a rural area of south Texas. The area was called Simmons. There was a small village and a lar...

David: Your "charlebank" reminds me of the British word "charabanc." Charabanc was an alpha-agora Good Word a few years ago.

Here in the hinterlands we have a specific use for the word, and, as far as I know, no other. It goes like this: "Waull, I'll swan, I hain't seed yew sincet Heck wuz a pup." If I don't keep my redneck talk in shape the neighbors might think I am a puttin on city ways.

Smorgasbord has been a Good Word in the recent past. When I think of a board as a table, I always recall this word. It seems to be a sort of synonym to buffet. I enjoy the transliteration from Swedish to English. It is butter-goose-table. Having enjoyed buffets from many places. Chinese put on a goo...

The following little poem popped into my head when I read this Good Word. I think it came from the 1920s and was probably delivered to me by one of my aunts, Aunt Alta to be specific. She dealt in the arcane. I couldn't remember it all, so I Googled it and got: The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylact...

Some folks out here in the hinterland actually know this word. Most folks have trouble pronouncing. I like a slight emphasis on the first syllable with a bodacious emphasis on the final syllable. How do British and Australians pronounce it?

Thanks for the prompt David. I am certainly not the expert here but I do have a response. The word beget [past tense begat] is an English word, long in the English language. It simply means to get. Beginning In the 1200s the word was used as the equivalent of the Hebrew word yâlad. This Hebrew word ...

I was never aware of the literal bromide. I appreciate the information about the use of literal bromides. The word never made it here in the hinterlands. I have heard it in it's figurative sense. I have never felt a compelling urge to use it in the figurative sense. So I choose to ignore the word al...

I applaud my hero, Winston Churchill, who said of not ending sentences with prepositions: "This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put." I do not laud Churchill for all his actions and comments, but he was the greatest man of the 20th century, hands down. One of his most colorfu...

My comments are often those of an old curmudgeon. After all, I am older than dirt. Just kidding.

I have never had occasion to say, "Just kidding".