But Will I Be Able to Dance the Tarentella?

I took my knee to the doctor today - and my getting there two minutes ahead of the appointment was balanced by having then to wait half an hour.

The good news is my blood pressure is on something like 130/90 - which as he put it, is low for me.

The bad news is my leg is full of blood. Short of being drained at the hospital I took the "active rest" and pills route - I have anti-inflammable and painkillers the size of a plate to take.

It strikes me as being much less painful than it was on Monday.

Cometh the Hour, Cometh...

John Clute? Surely he can review us out of the crisis?

Apparently (and clearly this is in part a publicity stunt) Collins are to retire 2000 words from their dictionaries, such as:

Abstergent Cleansing or scouring

Agrestic Rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth

Apodeictic Unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

Caducity Perishableness; senility

Caliginosity Dimness; darkness

Compossible Possible in coexistence with something else

Embrangle To confuse or entangle

Exuviate To shed (a skin or similar outer covering)

Fatidical Prophetic

Fubsy Short and stout; squat

Griseous Streaked or mixed with grey; somewhat grey

Malison A curse

Mansuetude Gentleness or mildness

Muliebrity The condition of being a woman

Niddering Cowardly

Nitid Bright; glistening

Olid Foul-smelling

Oppugnant Combative, antagonistic or contrary

Periapt A charm or amulet

Recrement Waste matter; refuse; dross

Roborant Tending to fortify or increase strength

Skirr A whirring or grating sound, as of the wings of birds in flight

Vaticinate To foretell; prophesy

Vilipend To treat or regard with contempt


I will henceforth vilipend, despite my fubsyness.

See: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4799560.ece

Edit: I assume Collins are owned by the same company that ultimately publishes the Times. Cross promotion, much?

There's also a plug for http://wordia.com/, which is (c) Collins and doesn't contain skirr nor malisons.

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