The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
Since then, I no longer 'have breakfast', I 'jenticulate'. What a wonderful language English is.
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"Damn! I forgot to pack the mackerel!"
Yes, sitting on the coach heading towards Bavaria on 28 December last year, those words really did pass through my mind. I'd forgotten t...
That sounds a good word to me. Jenticulation at Tiffany's...
ReplyDeleteLOL.
ReplyDeleteThat's how "jenticulate" looks like:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.instagram.com/jenticulate/
Well, since I can no longer eat bread and rolls for breakfast, or even muesli, I have a very wide range of breakfast - including things like sliced red peppers with hummus or mozzarella with tomato, fried mushrooms and onions or an omelette with spinach and feta cheese. The sky is the limit.
DeleteMy Webster of 1952 did not recognize that word. But it is dictionary of American English, after all. / M.
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