Whilst enjoying the latest episode, of Grand Designs, Kevin McCloud threw me with the use of an adjective that I’d never heard before - the word discombobulating! Not since pulchritudinous (but that’s another story) in November 2011 had I been so challenged.
Confused as to the meaning of this word, I had to resort to a dictionary – to find, in a bizarrely appropriate twist of events, that my state of confusion was literally the meaning of the word.
I did however wonder if Kevin was showing off by flaunting his advanced vocabulary or whether he had some kind of bet with someone - you know the kind of thing:
“Hey Kev, I bet you a tenner you couldn’t introduce discombobulating into the flow of conversation”
Kevin “Ha ha, you improvisational skills doubter – make it twenty and I’ll put it in the right context too”.
Kevin McCloud has now set the bar high – I will expect more linguistic gems from him as the Grand Designs series unfolds.
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Confused as to the meaning of this word, I had to resort to a dictionary – to find, in a bizarrely appropriate twist of events, that my state of confusion was literally the meaning of the word.
I did however wonder if Kevin was showing off by flaunting his advanced vocabulary or whether he had some kind of bet with someone - you know the kind of thing:
“Hey Kev, I bet you a tenner you couldn’t introduce discombobulating into the flow of conversation”
Kevin “Ha ha, you improvisational skills doubter – make it twenty and I’ll put it in the right context too”.
Kevin McCloud has now set the bar high – I will expect more linguistic gems from him as the Grand Designs series unfolds.
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