Yogh.
There’s a difference between an archaism and a colloquialism, but the terms are priddiner.
Or so methinks…
In New England the words passel and parcel are quite distinct. They may be related historically but a ‘passel’ is a very vague, ever-changing quantity while a ‘parcel’ is a package. A New Englander would say a ‘passel of trouble’ like a Southerner might say a ‘heap of trouble’. A ‘parcel of trouble’ would be something from Ted Kaczinsky.
Huzzah!
I’m not the only datum/data perfectionist.
That lad next door is a caution. He raced around the corner, and he ding nigh bowled me over. Before I could call him a guttersnipe, he was gone!
Perhaps, the next time you spot such an error, you could Pit the miscreant in one of the other fora.
Regards,
Shodan
So, Bridget Burke, how you doin’?
In our family, we use the expressions/words:
"Good Lan’ child!’ and
“She/he’s a panic!” and
“Golly day” and
“Icebox” and
“Automobile” and
“Turkish towel; tea towel”
There’s more, but I can’t remember just now. Because I’m old.
I love the word “pismire.” I’ll occasionally use it as an insult.
I also tend to bandy about the terms “methinks” and “forsooth,” though usually in an obviously pretentious fashion. But I will commonly exclaim “Ye gods!” without even the faintest hint of facetiousness. (Even though I pronounce “ye” incorrectly.)
I need to use the phrase “Great Caeser’s ghost!” somewhere.
Yes, we still use it. In fact, I’m surprised at some of the words in this thread. “Amongst”, “quip” and “rife” are archaic?
I just now realized another one; I love it so much I’m surprised I didn’t think of it before. “Gads.” Not as in “egads,” but as in a lot of something, such as: “Gads of birds all over the telephone poles!” It’s fun to say.
That’s wonderful - thank you! I didn’t even stop to think an there was something like this out there, anon.
I will put Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility in the CD player into the car pretty regularly and listen to it on my way to work. Then I occationally discover I’m describing people as amicable or use other phrases that at that moment seem perfectly normal.
(Right now its “To Kill a Mockingbird”)
My daughter finds much mirth in my use of the word ‘indeed’.
**cad
rake
fish wife
fish monger
codswallop
behoove
hie thee
hither and yon
Archaic Word Pron
**Today’s Archaic Word of the Day: **Invaginate
So one ought to use invaginate one’s priapsus with a french letter before engaging in copulation?
More quolloquial than archaic, but I’ve used the phrase “If I had my druthers, I’d…”
I’m sure it’s a bastraction of ‘I would rather’.
Yes, “passel” is its own word. One can have a passel of greens or a mess of them, even. (They both mean “a good quantity of greens.” Some people define “mess” to be enough ____ to feed one family, but I think they’re overthinking it.)