@kayaker you are just so weird.
In a good way😊
I learned a new word: Epizeuxis. It’s a very toddler/non-toddler word.
I like “glede”. The one and only time I’ve encountered it was in The Lord of the Rings, in which Isidur writes about taking the Ring from Sauron’s hand: “It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched…” It’s an archaic word for a red-hot ember. Still looking for an opportunity to use it myself.
Fairly well read people know what a fortnight is, maybe more due to the game?
But sennight is rare.
I heard it a lot in the late 80’s when I lived in Michigan. The state celebrated it’s 150th anniversarty, it’s sesquicentennial, while I was up there.
Oregon had its sesquicentennial 14 years ago. I can’t recall hearing a single thing about it. Googling shows that some people did things, but it bypassed me totally.
Rochester had its sesquicentennial in 1984. It was a fairly big deal.
I worked for the city at the time. I created a 500 screen database for a touchscreen computer, built on an Apple 2. People could use menus to read through screens to get a complete Rochester history, a listing of of city services, popular events and places, and famous residents.
It was so advanced for the time that I wrote the text for the screens on a typewriter, since we didn’t have computers of our own to work on.
I have the feeling I will use the word quinquagenarian less in future, but may use the word sexagenarian more often. I wonder whether someone will think it means something risqué.
Oh, yes. It’s amazing what one will remember when so much else is forgotten.
I think I read the Asimov book with paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde set to music when I was like 11, and I still remember that chemical musically.
I’ve seen sex-agenarian used in lubricious situations a Brobdingnagian times.
My apologies to any hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobics out there.
“Sesquicentennial - 150 Years” was put on the bottom of California license plates for about three years starting in 1998.
Happy doperversary(rare word? Think I coined it, but I’ll accept anyone who says different as being more informed than me)
I meant sesquicentennial as a joke. You know…said rarely, as in every 150 years. 
They obviously got cliticized.
Reading a Robert Galbreath (AKA J.K. Rowling) mystery the other night, I came on someone accused of affry. From the context, it seemed like it had to mean disturbing the peace and the dictionary agreed. Maybe it is common in the UK. Utterly new to me.
Will stand corrected but I think the term is “affray”.
Comes with a max term of 10 years in the slammer here in NSW.
Is that at all similar to ASBO?
Affray is a specific offence in the law:
Not really. An ASBO is an injunction to not do some sort of behaviour that causes alarm or distress, so it could be a way of trying to prevent an affray from developing where people have some longstanding beef or a persistent pattern of seriously annoying behaviour
Acnestis
Definition: Noun. acnestis. (zoology) The section of an animal’s skin that it cannot reach in order to scratch itself, usually the space between the shoulder blades. - SOURCE
I think we all know that spot.