My challenge is that I am going to try and look up a word I either do not know or only "sort of" understand the meaning of when it is used in context and then introduce it into a sentence on my chosen "victim" then report on here how I got on and award myself a mark out of ten for relevance.
That's if I can keep it up.
0/10 Complete failure - couldn't be bothered/ didn't speak to anyone all day.
1/10 = I was getting desperate and used it inappropriately.
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10/10 = not only did I use the word appropriately but my audience was none the wiser or looked at me in awe of my vocabulary.
Rules! Added on 8th July
Anyone can use their own word or mine or someone else's BUT much appreciated if a definition is given and that you report back here and award yourself a score out of 10 for relevancy. You can use the word in an email, a conversation or a post on here. If used in a post on here please give a link. Syd somehow managed to use "bardolatry" in the music thread. I awarded her 4/10 - it would've been a higher score but I don't think she was actually listening to Stay by Shakespeare's Sister so she had falsely engineered its usage .
I think using the word on this forum in someone else's thread would be fun - especially if in general (less likely they'll know what we're up to) - even at the risk of sounding like a wordy prat!
MASSIVE bonus points for using the word in a thread title!
I read this one in a letter on Teletext and hadn't a clue what it meant...
Gallimaufry
A hotchpotch, jumble or confused medley.
This word has been around since the sixteenth century, is still in use, but isn’t particularly common today. It’s one of those terms sometimes trotted out to give a literary feel to one’s writing, or spoken in a facetious tone for a quick laugh. Its origin is uncertain, though it could have come from the French galimafree, which might have referred to a kind of sauce or stew. Support for this comes from its earliest sense in English of a ragout or hash, to which the current meaning is obviously a figurative reference. “So now,” a writer lamented in 1579, “they have made our English tongue a gallimaufry, or hodgepodge of all other speeches”.
That's if I can keep it up.
0/10 Complete failure - couldn't be bothered/ didn't speak to anyone all day.
1/10 = I was getting desperate and used it inappropriately.
.
.
.
10/10 = not only did I use the word appropriately but my audience was none the wiser or looked at me in awe of my vocabulary.
Rules! Added on 8th July
Anyone can use their own word or mine or someone else's BUT much appreciated if a definition is given and that you report back here and award yourself a score out of 10 for relevancy. You can use the word in an email, a conversation or a post on here. If used in a post on here please give a link. Syd somehow managed to use "bardolatry" in the music thread. I awarded her 4/10 - it would've been a higher score but I don't think she was actually listening to Stay by Shakespeare's Sister so she had falsely engineered its usage
.I think using the word on this forum in someone else's thread would be fun - especially if in general (less likely they'll know what we're up to) - even at the risk of sounding like a wordy prat!
MASSIVE bonus points for using the word in a thread title!
I read this one in a letter on Teletext and hadn't a clue what it meant...
Gallimaufry
A hotchpotch, jumble or confused medley.
This word has been around since the sixteenth century, is still in use, but isn’t particularly common today. It’s one of those terms sometimes trotted out to give a literary feel to one’s writing, or spoken in a facetious tone for a quick laugh. Its origin is uncertain, though it could have come from the French galimafree, which might have referred to a kind of sauce or stew. Support for this comes from its earliest sense in English of a ragout or hash, to which the current meaning is obviously a figurative reference. “So now,” a writer lamented in 1579, “they have made our English tongue a gallimaufry, or hodgepodge of all other speeches”.
(I have never watched it anyway).
That's funny.
I am gonna tell him but I wasn't in work today - I shall pass on the temperature info too 
so I edited it. 
