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filterfish 55 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered...

twaddle is word I haven't heard for a long time (I moved from the UK to Australia 27 years ago). It's a great word!

inkyoto 55 days ago [–]

It is a lovely word, indeed, and it is undeservedly heavily underutilised, hands down.

I find myself using it nowadays rather sparingly and mostly in just one phrase (and its semantic derivatives): «all that twaddle […]».

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