Expressions

[lillibet]

I really enjoy it when I say something and my interlocutor comments that while they know the word or expression from their reading, they've never heard anyone use it in conversation.

Comments

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I still think dour should rhyme with flour.

Wait, it *doesn't*?

(Hmm. My on-line Webster gives the flour-rhyming pronunciation first billing, in contrast to the OED. So this may be one of those words in transition.)

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Don't even look at the OED's opinion on "archetypal". It's frightening.

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

I love how "archetype" has three adjective forms...