Lovely, Debby. English is hard enough. But modern English vernacular/street talk can be indecipherable.

As for Nahlessgo, was it a good meal when you got there?

This is an interesting one, Debby. Getting your communication right doesn't necessarily mean it is good communication. In England, and in Australia (maybe also in USA?) we spell licen c e as a noun and licen s e as a verb - rather like advice and advise. At one stage in my career as a communicator, ...

Nice, George. It is all very well to accept expressions such as 'Wanna come with?' but fortunately we don't have to demean ourselves by actually using them in our daily discourse.

Ahh, what it is to be a snob.

Yes, and a wonderful (if only marginally believable) origin. Presumably there is no such word as crepidarian which makes it an orphan... well, not negative, but perhaps superlative. An orphan superlative. And that's a category that includes superficial and probably superlative itself. No doubt there...

Ahh, nostalgia is a marvellous thing. Feckless takes me back to my school reports in the fifties. Feckless, indolent, bumptious... Accusations that sadly, I haven't enjoyed since. And, it seems, they are labels no longer applied at all, lest offence be caused.

I don't think you should allow yourself to mellow, George. Sometimes the tautological prefix helpfully intensifies (overwhelm?), but sometimes it does not. I am all for keeping it simple. Same goes for redundant prepositions after verbs. "I will ring you up to discuss it." This is not as s...

Don't know much about music, but if you hold a stringed instrument tightly between your knees, doesn't that interfere with the vibrations of the 'box' and hence the sound? Isn't that why they use a spike for these bigger instruments?

I don't doubt the veracity of the Good Doctor's suggestion that in England you might hear "...and see if we can cadge a cuppa from her". Indeed you might. But you wouldn't hear an English person say "Let's knock up Gretchen..." At least you wouldn't hear knocking up in polite com...

Ahh! I like it, Slava. Accord is agreement between two or three parties. Concord is agreement within a group. Debby, if I can offer some word of support, I think you are unnecessarily deferential - you are every bit a worthy contributor here. Interesting that concord is as well used in your circle/s...

And of course, sometimes written as judder. The train driver slammed on the emergency brakes and the train juddered to a halt. The meaning is close to identical and so it is, I presume, from the same root. I have inherited from my father, a twelve (slim) volume course on how to improve one's memory ...

Interesting, Debby. Thank you.

I must say though, that the word 'accord' seems to me a perfectly suitable word for the same meaning and is a little easier to say. Perhaps that's why concord is so rarely used (except where Debby came from, of course,

Nice one, Barbara. Bardot worship is a better meaning. And I bet you were old enough to enjoy the film. I remember The Vikings movie. One scene has stayed with me - the Angles had a man on watch for Viking invasion; his whole face fills the screen as he screams "Vikings" to alert the villa...

Lest this word relinquish all its usage, I am suggesting it now. It was certainly in vogue when I was a schoolboy. "Stop fidgeting, boy", but you don't hear it much these days. Perhaps it has been replaced by ADHD.

And presumably English 'stage' (which it very closely resembles) is also directly related?

I am no Greek scholar but maybe we could use a new word Kallography to mean beautiful prose - not calligraphy, beautiful script. It doesn't include the nuance of beautiful writing about inconsequentials. Perhaps proper Greek linguists could add that nuance and still create an attractive word?