Favourite Words

[DavidM]

Paradigmatically (!?)


Here it is;
www.charliegillett.com/bb/viewtopic.php ... 864#p75864

[Dayna]

Jarama no beteh - Thank you from an African Facebook friend.

[Dayna]

enchalla - Love; from a Facebook friend.

[Hugh Weldon]

Dayna:

enchalla - Love

Not quite Dayna, strictly it's 'if God wills'. Muslims I know use it all the time. In more religious days the equivalent 'God willing' was quite common in English to add when speaking about something that hadn't happened yet. My grandmother used the (I think) Irish variation 'If God spares me'.

[Dayna]

Thanks for that. I wonder why he said it was love?

[Malachy O'Neill]

Possibly confused with 'enchilada', which may or may not have erotic connotations.

In Ireland 'Please God' is the more common among older folks, and a pretty pithy translation of 'Insh'allah' I reckon.

[Dayna]

It's not. It's enchalla; from talking to an African freind on Facebook!

[jackdaw version]

"Grundyism," especially when preceded by the adjective "creeping," thus "creeping grundyism." Not entirely sure why that phrase came into my head recently.

[judith]

Wickerpeedinhere

(from Chris P)

[Chris P]

an unwieldy coinage I'm afraid, best regarded as being spoken by a museum or art gallery guide whilst pointing. The alternative Whickerpeedinhere may hold true in many establishments across the globe, but is probably too culturally specific - have people who don't live in the uk, or are under a certain age, heard of Alan Whicker ?

[judith]

I hadn't heard of Alan Whicker.

[judith]

I get it now, Chris. Took a while till I saw some videos.

[David Flower]

speaking of which... on the BBC radio game "I'm sorry I haven't a clue' they play a round where they give new definitions to existing words

a recent one :

"Onomatopoeia" - what a man often manages in the toilet

[Hugh Weldon]

Klactoveedesteene.

Title of a Charlie Parker tune.

Totally meaningless, apparently Bird just made it up.

[Dayna]

The word Wii. It's so Fruedian. There's a few comical stories in the news of people injuring themselves while playing.