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My grunt is dissed, but was I ever gruntled?

TheCatWoman

Words like this fascinate me, presumably at one time people were gruntled, but now we seem only to be disgruntled.

Was your flabber ever unghasted? Whats your flabber anyway?

Do you ever combobulate things, rather than have them discombobulated?

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  • I love the title of your post  .

    Flabbergasted is a word I have heard for much of life, as my mother and her siblings often use it. I think it's a great word.

    Discombobulated was not a word I had ever come across until a few years ago, but now I seem to read and hear it a lot. I also consider it to be a great word.

    During GCSE English lessons at school, I would sometimes look in my thesaurus for less commonly-used words to use for creative writing tasks. Sometimes, I would try to incorporate them into conversations too, as a way of expanding my vocabulary.

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  • I love the title of your post  .

    Flabbergasted is a word I have heard for much of life, as my mother and her siblings often use it. I think it's a great word.

    Discombobulated was not a word I had ever come across until a few years ago, but now I seem to read and hear it a lot. I also consider it to be a great word.

    During GCSE English lessons at school, I would sometimes look in my thesaurus for less commonly-used words to use for creative writing tasks. Sometimes, I would try to incorporate them into conversations too, as a way of expanding my vocabulary.

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