{"id":10108,"date":"2014-05-24T05:45:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T09:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=10108"},"modified":"2014-05-23T21:22:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T01:22:37","slug":"i-fleer-at-this-petty-foggery-mumpsimus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2014\/05\/24\/i-fleer-at-this-petty-foggery-mumpsimus\/","title":{"rendered":"I fleer at this petty-foggery, mumpsimus!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Practitioners<\/a>

Sir Anthony van Dyck ca.1638, Lord John Stuart and his brother Lord Bernard. Practitioners of gadzookery?<\/p><\/div>\n

If you’re ever at a loss for words, it may be because so many of the really good ones have fallen out of use. The headline above could have read “I laugh derisively at this quibbling, you stubborn old pedant,” but what’s the fun in that? Sounds a little pedantic, actually. If you really want to disrespect someone, there’s just no substitute for good old, old English.<\/p>\n

You can find a few examples of lost gems at Mental Floss<\/a>, but there are dozens of other places where old times are not forgotten. If you are feeling a little insult-impaired, this Telegraph article<\/a> will point you to some handy resources where you can discover which of your acquaintances is a gobslotch and which is a snoker. Though if you call them that to their face, they might be a little misquemed. And there’s a big collection of antique verbiage at The Phrontistery<\/a>, but many of them are really obscure latinate terms for really obscure things. Fine, if you are of a radicarian bent; if not, feel free to fleer at them.<\/p>\n

I’m no expert. Compared to A Way With Words<\/em> host Grant Barrett, for example, I am engaging in ultracrepidarianism–or the giving of opinions on subjects one knows nothing about. Grant, by the way, is an example of a pilgarlic–peeled garlic–a bald-headed man. Not to be an aretaloger, but\u00a0I could play out this line of piffle endlessly.<\/p>\n

There is an antique term coined specifically for people who enjoy throwing antique terms around. The practice was called gadzookery. Guilty as charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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