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Originally Posted by steeljack
remember the older folks being asked if they had their Portmanteau packed in the days before wakes weeks started .... travel was usually by a Charabanc ....... seems the older generation had a better/wider vocabularies than present day , can be sure the Mutha 'f ' word wasn't part of everyday conversation  |
What you say, I agree with.
I think our vocabulary has become smaller.
Just seems odd.
A biblical word, or saying I could understand.
Pandæmonium was widely used, and everyone would know what was meant. Though I can't imagine everyone was familiar with Paradise Lost.
Mind you, everyone would similarly understand Bedlam, to have a similar meaning, but almost no one would ever have been to London.