Bluffer's Guides: the five-million-copy best-selling series.
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(🇬🇧) Our range of concise manuals are packed with everything you need to know about popular subjects – from #menshealth and #carhacks to #sleeping – and are on special offer in our winter sale: ow.ly/rENv50D7B20
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Word of the day is ‘circumlocutionist’: one who consistently speaks in a roundabout way in order to avoid addressing a question directly.
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Word of the day is 'sequaciousness' (17th century): the blinkered, unreasoning, and slavish following of another, no matter where it leads.
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Words added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2020:
7. Awesomesauce (great)
6. Brewstered (rich)
5. Hench (muscular physique)
4. Bogosity (the state of being bogus)
3. Back-sass (to reply in a cheeky manner)
2. Gee-whizzery (excessive naivety)
1. Jerkweed (an obnoxious person)
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(Unofficial) word of the day is Merryneum: the blurry space between Christmas and the New Year.
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Word of the day (on repeat) is the 17th-century ‘latibulate’: to hide oneself in a corner in an attempt to avoid reality.
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Four ways to use a shop’s hand sanitiser:
1. Squirt it all over your shirt by mistake
2. Squirt it all over your crotch by mistake
3. Squirt so much on your hands that you’re still rubbing it in fifteen minutes later
4. Oh, of course, it’s empty
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In the past, you could be reckful (considerate) as well as reckless. People were also gormful (careful); feckful (responsible), ruthful (compassionate), wieldy (agile), ept (adroit), and definitely gruntled.
Bring back the lost positives.
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Has anyone got a copy of Arthur Barrow's From Travellers Camp to Gold that I could borrow or buy? It's the story of Master Smudge, the 1980 Gold Cup winner.
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Word of the Day is 'snollygoster' (19th century, US): one who abandons all integrity in favour of power.
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Word of the day is 'autolatry': self-worship; placing oneself at the centre of the universe in every situation (any person doing so is an 'autolater').
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The reverb on the line 'do think twice' in Billie Jean was achieved by Michael Jackson singing through a five-foot cardboard tube.
(2'14" here youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBD…)
(RIP Bruce Swedien, the engineer whose idea it was)
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