My grunt is dissed, but was I ever gruntled?

I love the title of your post TheCatWoman .

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.

The 17thC seems responsible for a lot of words, they really went in for flowery language. Shakespere and Dickens both created words that are now common.

I loved it when I found out that kidney is another word for genre, genre is one of those silly words I can't finish saying, the err bit just seem to go on and on. 

TheCatWoman said:

I loved it when I found out that kidney is another word for genre

Imagine the confusion it would cause now if someone said, "My favourite kidney of music is..."

TheCatWoman said:

I loved it when I found out that kidney is another word for genre

Imagine the confusion it would cause now if someone said, "My favourite kidney of music is..."

Exactly, English is such an odd language with so many borrowed and imported words, plus all the gramatical prefixes and suffixes, all the ing's, un's and dis's.

Then you get the Greek influences, the ph instead of f, why can I have a fizzy drink rather than a phizzy one?

Then there was the Great Vowel Shift a couple , of centuries ago and I've never worked that one out, so if anyone can enlighten me please do.