I'm not sure just exactly why I've chosen to include Paul and Paul's beautiful fizzogs to illustrate this particular post (Smokey Robinson, Bob Dylan or Elvis Costello might've been more appropriate) although it is, undeniably, a VERY cool picture.
(It was, I believe, taken sometime during the winter of 1981-82 whilst the Jam and McCartney were both in AIR Studios in Oxford Street recording The Gift and Tug of War, respectively, and first published on the back cover of Smash Hits magazine circa February 1982.)
Anyway... What this is, is a list of my favourite words - in no particular order. If you spot any that are missing which you think should be featured, let me know and I'll try to include them in whatever I'm working on next:
MY FAVOURITE WORDS
(It was, I believe, taken sometime during the winter of 1981-82 whilst the Jam and McCartney were both in AIR Studios in Oxford Street recording The Gift and Tug of War, respectively, and first published on the back cover of Smash Hits magazine circa February 1982.)
Anyway... What this is, is a list of my favourite words - in no particular order. If you spot any that are missing which you think should be featured, let me know and I'll try to include them in whatever I'm working on next:
MY FAVOURITE WORDS
- namby-pamby
- moist
- hollow
- quincunx
- goitre
- abeyance
- thong
- lugubrious
- faux-naïf
- risible
- irksome
- demisemiquaver
- jiggery-pokery
- oblong
- yacht
- rhombus
- onomatopaeia
- kitchen-knave
- zeitgeist
- crass
- pretentiousness
- blithering
- parallelogram
- snot
- cromulent
- plodding
- lob
- stymied
- colloquialism
- voluminous
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