‘Vicissitude’ amd ‘montebank’ are delicious but I like ‘vituperative’. Rolls off the tongue and sounds like it means. But I also sprinkle my daily comments with ‘delightful’ to some people’s obvious delight!
In James Kilpatrick’s column, he mentioned “kerfuffle” (an argument,) and “pungle up” (to pay for, often reluctantly.)
A few years back, when Dad had season tickets to Purdue U.'s football season, there were a couple of guys who sat behind him. By the middle of the second quarter, one guy would ask the other if he’d care for a “beverage.” It was pronounced “with quotation marks.” He meant he was getting out the pint of whiskey.
Maybe she’s one of the people who say “repertoire”? I know I use the word for any context too formal for “bag-o’-tricks.”
I don’t know how to pronounce “paean” because I’ve never heard it spoken aloud. Dictionaries use funny little symbols that are no help at all. Can anyone help? Is it two syllables? Is the first syllable “pay” / “pee” / “peh” ? Is the second syllable “ehn” (as is “end”) / “on” / “an” ?
Thanks. I offer a paean for your help.
Hymn.
But really, it is pronounced PE-en, unless you are british, in which case it is pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove.
That helps not at all. How is “PE” pronounced (like pea or like peh as in pen)? How is “en” pronounced – like “end”?
Yes, your first guess is right. pea -en, like end without the d See, the emphasis is on the letter in ALL CAPS. That is how ALL CAPS work. You know, I should have just said to google it. If you had, you would have found this:http://img.tfd.com/hm/prons/P0010300.wav
By, the way, it would be nice to be thanked.
“Beverage” is common here in australia, but common in the sense that “vehicle” might be common enough to go unnoticed, but most people say “car”. Most people say “drink” too.
“Beverage” tends, therefore, to be used when somebody is being semi-formal and dry. Policemen like it: “I apprehended two intoxicated adult male persons after noticing the vehicle being driven in an unsafe manner. Both persons were consuming alcohilic beverages within said vehicle.” That sort of thing. So unless you’re a policeman, legislator, wowser, or dietician, you can safely forget “beverage”, and say “d’ja wanna 'nother drink?”
You are so gormful.
Withal.
Incontinently.
Germ-plasm.
Octoroon.
Kine (older word for “beeves” 
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Note the usage in A More Humane Mikado, lyrics by W.S. Gilbert, of course.
Should one wish to sound needlessly pedantic, the auxiliary verb “shall” ought to be used only in the first person.
We should use all of those wonderful “place words” again. I remember studying them in English at school:
Here / hither/ hence: In / to / from this place
There / thither / thence: In / to / from that place
Where / whither / whence: In / to / from which place?
And the meek shall inherit the earth 
Touché.
If I understand correctly, though, many rules of English grammar were artificially imposed during the Enlightenment, which took place some years after the production of the KJV. Perhaps some of our grammar gurus can confirm or refute this.
The rules that I was taught were:
(1) In normal circumstances, *shall * for first person and *will * for second and third persons.
(2) For emphasis or commands, reverse the first rule and use *will * for first person and *shall * for second and third persons.
It is my favorite words again, partway through this poem. The whole thing is too long to post.
“Yarrow Unvisited” by W. Wordsworth
http://www.bartleby.com/106/257.html
“Let beeves and home-bred kine partake
The sweets of Burn-mill meadow;
The swan on still Saint Mary’s Lake
Float double, swan and shadow!
We will not see them—will not go 45
To-day, nor yet to-morrow;
Enough if in our hearts we know
There’s such a place as Yarrow.”
Whenever I think of the word mountebank, I think of old time Strongbad. I love those cartoons.
I think that’s actually an older word for “cows”, not “beeves”.
Here we go again.
They both refer to cows, of the kind that are eaten. I brought up beeves, as the usual answer to “What is the name of the species that include both cows and Bulls?”
Hey, look:
My company is going throught the painstaking task of getting “ISO” certified. “SHALL” is used commonly throughout the regulations.