Charabanc trip
Croydon Aerodrome
So charabanc* and aerodrome are considered to be obsolete words, are they? Not here at Dolores Delargo Towers, they're not!
Read more in The Telegraph
We make every effort to promote such delicious words as palimpsest, flapdoodle and calumny, and refuse to call a turfing iron a spade...
And don't even get me started on the ruination of the spoken language!
[*charabanc is apparently a French phrase meaning "carriage with benches"]
Flapdoodle still pops up in the crossword in the Mirror
ReplyDeleteI didn't think Mirror readers were literate enough to have a crossword... Jx
ReplyDeletemiaow - saucer of Milk for table 2
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