So I Was Asked... (along with a Mag7 ficlet, 128 words)

[sallymn]

... By someone who knows me all too well (hi, Laurie!!) if I [a] knew the word pecksniffian and [b] if I could use it in a sentence.

Do I what.

Not only do I love words - and pecksniffian and its relation pecksniffery are so richly rotund in themselves - but I also love the works of Charles Dickens, and yes, this comes from the character Samuel

Comments

[farad]

Nice! I love it - and I love Chris' non-verbal responses! That's great!

[sallymn]

Chris does, methinks, have a whole range of 'looks' and some of them just for Ez... :)

[bogwitch64]

Ha! I love it! And now I have a new "forgotten English word!" :)

[sallymn]

The people who know me are used to occasionally not having a clue what I just said {eg}

[laurie_ky]

Hi backatcha,

Yep, you leapt to my mind as soon as I read Jess's post asking if people knew this word, and no peeking in the dictionary. I would totally cover a bet on you when it comes to word usage.

Laurie

[sallymn]

Thanks! Mind you, the ones I don't know - or even know wrong - can be startlingly common sometimes (I spent years thinking wall-eyed meant something it didn't)

[vamysteryfan]

Cute! I couldn't think of a way to use it in a sentence but this was great!

[sallymn]

It wouldn't be easy, but then I use a lot of words my workmates look squint-eyed at... (like slubberdegullion, for example :)

[hiddencait]

Ahahaha that is awesome.. just totally awesome and totally appropriate to our darling grifter.

Best line I think though: "Chris gazed at him, saying nothing, and saying it forcefully."

Only Chris could pull that off lol.

(PPS - This might have been even more amusing than the ficlet... and just think what Reid's MOM might have come up with.. Probably 4 hours of lecture on etymological history and it's relevance to English society as a whole lol)

[sallymn]

{veg} Chris doesn't NEED words...