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Coo. That's a good one. The area of Lancashire I live in was Danelaw. Danes filtering up here from York. Towns like Garstang, meaning a gair- stone; a meeting place for a kind of local parliament, I think. But the Settlements here were peaceful, not like the earlier ones in Northumberland.
 
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Some angelic, blue-sky, not very thunderous, thunder knickers.

Nora Batty's? (it's an age thing)! LOL! - just saw the site legend under the pic - 'click to expand' !
 
Nora Batty's? (it's an age thing)! LOL! - just saw the site legend under the pic - 'click to expand' !
They can't be Nora's, where's the stockings? lol yes I know who she is, I used to love watching Summer Wine, Sunday night after Antiques Roadshow
 
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OMNISTRAIN: the (obsessive?) effort to improve oneself in every respect.

This urge is to be countered with that well worn riposte, 'Enough, already.'
 
I once tried to learn German from some audio tapes. One of the phrases we had to learn was,'Muchen die fenestre ouf' (or something like that) which means, 'Close the window'. Hence the fenestre part of fenestrated, I suppose.
 
Just bought a book, 'The Mellifluous Book of Hard Words'. Lots of new unusual words to learn.
 
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USUFRUCT
The legal right to use or enjoy something, especially something belonging to another. Thus, my kids consider that they have usufruct rights over the TV. Not when the cricket's on, rugrats [hard stare].
 
If you like unusual words, try the book Verbal Advantage. It contains lots of unusual but absolutely perfect words.

I used to have a whole dictionary of little-used words, but had to get rid of it (and a lot of other books) during a move. From it, I learned the word gound: eye-junk in the morning.
 
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I can't dance, I can only TITUBATE [to stagger or stumble tipsily]
 
Sure you can, Marc. Just lay off the sauce, heh, and get those sequins on:

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Hmmm. Not sure if my gammy knee could cope with all that John Wayne-style sashaying. As for the sequins--no. I've loathed dressing up ever since my parents sent five-year old me to a fancy dress party covered in balloons. I was supposed to be a bunch of grapes. The shame.
 
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I can donate oeuvre and outré!

blue and black, David. Has to be blue on black.
 
I thought blue on black was a bruise? Or is that purple on yellow? lol
 
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