Language is a fashion trend it seems. Find a dictionary of say some 50 years ago and compare the entries with a dictionary published this year.

The change is amazing. I find that the words my grandparents and indeed my parents used now seem like ancient English. Different meanings, slang expressions and a corruption of the assorted styles of English. 'Tis a fascinating subject too.
I recall some three years or so back when a boy who waqs visiting in the local village who like our three sons is a luk Krung asked me , ''Where is the toilet, I need a wee wee.? I was flabbergasted and asked where did you learn or hear that expression ''wee wee?

I personally hasn't heard it or used ''wee wee'' since I was around 5 years old.

He told me he had just spent a month in England with his grandparents and that was the expression they used when wanting to use the toilet.

The times they are a changing!!

I like new words or different usage of existing words; that is the essence of poetry.


Pied Beauty




By Gerard Manley Hopkins









Glory be to God for dappled things –

For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;

Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;

And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.


All things counter, original, spare, strange;

Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)

With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;

He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:

Praise him.

With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;

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