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chrisporkerwebb.bsky.social • 5 days ago

What unusual words you hadn't heard before did you first hear in a song?

Sericulture!

Reposted from Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra

Well, this video is rather spiffing.

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telibarb.bsky.social•4 days ago

Photogravure. It's in the song Easter Parade from the film of the same name. I only found out what the word actually was (and how to spell it) by chance, when reading about an exhibition being put on by the Publishing Dept of the university I worked at. A real 🤯 moment.

chrisporkerwebb.bsky.social•4 days ago

Until Birdhouse In Your Soul, I'd never heard the word 'filibuster'.

denofscholes.bsky.social•5 days ago

The art of weaving silk from the silk caterpillar

chrisporkerwebb.bsky.social•5 days ago

I know that *now*. I looked it up after buying the record.

denofscholes.bsky.social•5 days ago

I don't know how I found out at the time but have always remembered it.
Same as I learned at 10yo that the capital of Outer Mongolia is Ulan Bator. That was in the Beano!

chrisporkerwebb.bsky.social•5 days ago

I remembered Ulan Bator from the old MB game Newsdesk.

denofscholes.bsky.social•5 days ago

I had a Question of Sport quiz book when I was a kid and the only thing I remember from that is; what sport would you associate vangs with?

It's sailing. It's part of the rope and pulley system that controls the boom and mast

chrisporkerwebb.bsky.social•5 days ago

Me and my brother used to test each other on the 1982 edition of the Guinness Book Of British Hit Singles. Because of that, I know that in 1967, an artist called 'Keith' got to number 24 in the charts with "98.6"

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