Supposedly the 100 most beautiful words in English. A few choice words there that I didn’t know – esculent, niveous, petrichor (the smell of earth after a rain), potamophilous. I can’t help thinking they’ve got some of their definitions wrong though. Colporteur – book peddlar? Surely it should be a tunesmith of a certain type. Noel Coward, for instance, was something of a colporteur. And blandiloquent, beautiful and flattering. I don’t think so. A politician, perhaps, making a blandiloquent speech….
Mick Hartley
Politics and Culture
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6 responses to “Blandiloquent”
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I think ‘cunt’ is a beautiful word, don’t you?
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“Seldom”: I do like “seldom”.
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Reminds me of that Black Adder episode where he destroys Dr Johnson’s new dictionary and has to rewrite it from scratch. “Oh, I’m sorry sir. I’m inuspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericumbobulations.”:)
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I’ve always had a soft spot for ‘obloquy’.
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A distinct bias towards the Latinate, I feel, plus a bit of the French-sounding (in fact rather too much) and the odd touch of Greek. With respect to Richard not much Anglo-Saxon there.
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Well I’ll be damned, I could have sworn Colporteur was a songwriter…
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