Categories: words
Date: 01 March 2010 18:20:31
appears to have caught the fancy of some of my readers!!
It is the polite version of what I was thinking at the time... (where's a blushing emoticon when a Japes needs it?!) as my thoughts were really not suitable for a family website. In an e-mail I sent to someone where I was ranting about the job situation, I referred to it being "interesting", which got the response "Interesting is an interesting word to use!" My response was "I was trying to be polite!"
I digress! "Base over Apex" has been a well used phrase in my vocabulary for many years, I have no idea where I acquired it from. Unlike the phrase "Nineteen Oat-cakes", which I attribute directly to my Dundonian family, but no-one else I know uses. 'Twas my Gran's stock answer to a question that involved an answer of a year that she didn't know, or didn't want to supply! Such as "What year were you born, Gran?".
I probably have more varied phrases or words that are idiocyncratic than many people, owing to the somewhat nomadic lifestyle I've lived, along with the high number of people I've shared my life with!