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Do you need a new word ? More than 1,000 new words added to the dictionary. (Original Post) In_The_Wind Feb 2017 OP
No thanks! True Dough Feb 2017 #1
Hahaha In_The_Wind Feb 2017 #2
English is a delightfully mutable language MyshkinCommaPrince Feb 2017 #3

MyshkinCommaPrince

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3. English is a delightfully mutable language
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 04:57 PM
Feb 2017

Dr. Samuel Johnson: (places two manuscripts on the table, but picks up the top one)
Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English scholarship. This book,
sir, contains every word in our beloved language.

Prince Regent George: Hmm.

Edmund Blackadder: Every single one, sir?

Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir!

Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if
I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribblarities.

Johnson: What?

Blackadder: `Contrafribblarites', sir? It is a common word down our way.

Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book)

Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anus-peptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have
caused you such pericombobulation.

Johnson: What? What? WHAT?

Prince: What are you on about, Blackadder? This is all beginning to sound a bit
like dago talk to me.

Blackadder: I'm sorry, sir. I merely wished to congratulate the Doctor on not having
left out a single word. (J sneers) Shall I fetch the tea, Your Highness?

Prince: Yes, yes -- and get that damned fire up here, will you?

Blackadder: Certainly, sir. I shall return interphrastically. (exits) (J writes some
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