Word from nowhere: Perturbed

Yes my friends, with hindsight, the the word ‘aware’ is definitely more than sufficient. I used this interesting word in the pub earlier this evening. Ouch – contact the Plain English Campaign.

This doesn’t strictly fit into my ‘Word from nowhere’ category. In fact it could be in a new category called ‘Words from a known source that you say all the time with your partner and make you laugh’. But hey let’s go crazy and keep it in the former category … Chad and I have [...]

I have worked in healthcare communications for a long time now but yesterday was the first time I have had to use the correct medical term for chundering (delightful). Another favourite medical term of the same genre is ‘Flatus’. Don’t know what this is? If you had flatulance you would be passing a number of [...]

This is going to be a new section to my blog: words that I have said for the first time. Today I used the word ‘juxtapose’ in a team meeting. Not sure where that came from – pretentious, moi… N x Oh here’s another word – insomnia!!! I cannot sleep but I can hear Chad [...]