Words That I Like

I am re-reading Emilie Barnes ~Simple Secrets To A Beautiful Home~ (also known as The Spirit of Loveliness) for the 8 millionth time. I so love that book. In the first chapter, on welcome, she mentions the word vestibule. A word that for some reason, tickles my fancy. That got me thinking about others words, some commonly used, some not, that I like. Before I was married, I worked for an eye doctor, and they used to tease me all the time about some of the words and phrases I used. Words and phrases that had long since gone out of fashion, and to this day, I don't know what they are, so ingrained into my speech they seem to be. Guess that's what happens when you are a Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys/Trixie Belden junkie. You pick just pick it up.

Anyway, here is a list of some of my favorites. Some are just fun to say. Like piccalilli.

~Vestibule

~Keeping room

~Sitting room

~Pantry

~Forsooth

~Apron

~Pinafore

~Twilight
~Shan't

~Diddly

~Veranda

~Davenport

~Dungarees

~Robin
~Dinner (in the correct way- our lunch)

~Luncheon

~Scaresly

~Land sakes

~My Land
~ A Wee Bit

~Dusk

~Lambkin (I call Muffin that all the time)

~The Garden (what we would call the yard)
~ I'll be Jiggered

~ Children

~ Pin tucked

~ The Loo

~ Photograph
~Persnickety

~Lantern (Actually, if we ever have a farm some day, I want to call it Lantern Hill Farm. Jane of Lantern Hill is one of my favorite L.M. Montgomery books, and doesn't Lantern Hill, just sound so cozy and homey?)

~Gentleman's Farm (sounds a bit more refined than Hobby Farm)

~Gate

~Hollow (if we live off the road, and have lots of tress, it could be Lantern Hollow Farm...)

~Creek

~Glorious

~Puttering

~Homemaking

~Fireside

~Vespers

~Mrs.

~My Dear (especially in B.s rather absent way, because it rolls off his tongue so naturally, instead of Bonnie or Bon.)

~Mama

~Rambling

~Tootles!

~Toot-a-loo!

~ Messiah

~Chums