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Irrationalability:

Noun: A natural or acquired skill or talent for irrational thought.

Example of ‘irrationalability’ in action:

A: Will I win the lottery, do you think?

B: Yes, almost definitely.

A: What makes you think that?

B: Because someone’s got to win it. And you’re someone.

A: Yay!

Peacocking [pee-kok-ing]

Verb (past: peacocked past part. peacock)

The act of gratuitously displaying your professional knowledge or skills, predominantly with the aim of impressing an audience of peers. This act is generally carried out through the medium of blog posts, facebook comments and tweets.

Typical usage:

Copywriter 1: Read my blog, did you?

Copywriter 2: Yup.

C 1: Good, wannit?  All them copywriting tips I came out with. Shows off my expertise. Shows I know what I’m on about.

C 2:  Shove off, show-off. You’re just peacocking.

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Twump: To bump into someone while ‘tweeting’.

Typical usage:

A: So how did you two meet – on Twitter?
B: Sort of, but not quite.
A: Eh?
B: I was walking down the street minding my own business. He was on his phone and he twumped me.
A: Ouch.

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Says Joy: “… the combination of parenting and business is very topical as more and more people these days are relinquishing conventional jobs for home businesses in order to spend more time with children.”

Very true, Joy. But does it sometimes work the other way, with home business owners putting so much time in that they see less of their children? Views?

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Lent-i-jles (noun): Vegetarian meal comprising lentils and vegetables – Good for New Age food.

Thanks Marilyn!

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Swattage (Noun): The measure of the massively disproportionate amount of energy wasted by humans swatting flying insects.

Steve’s ‘swattage’ notes:

Flies are tiny. Humans are, relatively speaking, massive and only need to gently bring a thumb and forefinger together to squash a fly. This, however, doesn’t stop the average human from needlessly wasting an incredible amount of energy with a killing-swipe that would dispatch an average rodent.

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Graham reckons this word is a cross between ‘delete’ and ‘disregard’. I don’t know about that. I reckon it’s Ali G describing wintry weather:

“Oh disleet’s not lahk snow, innit?”

Ego-ogle – To google oneself.

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Automagically: How things are often found – as in:

A : My reading glasses were definitely lost last night. I looked everywhere for them.

B: So how did you find them? Was there somewhere you’d forgotten to look?

A: No i just said, I looked everywhere. You know how it is, they just automagically turned up.

B: Right.

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Natalie reckons that running a business without marketing is a bit like winking at a pretty girl in the dark. (Aha, so that’s why they’re not taking any notice!). Visit Natalie and June and they will get you more customers.

And what does Randomonium mean? According to Natalie its:

“A series of events that leaves you with a semi-permanent question mark.” (??)

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A: Know where we’re going?

B: Sure – I’ve got a map, SatNav and my own infallible sense of direction.

A: So why did we just do a U-turn?

B: Err…I think the turn was back there. Tom-Tom’s said it was here, but that’s a dead-end. I’ll follow this road back for a bit.

A: This looks right. Yes – you got us here! Great naviguessing!

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Parralaxative: ‘Castor so strong it makes you squint.’

The thought of that’s just made me squint, anyhow – thanks Peter!

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It’s all about how you hear ‘em, isn’t it David!

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 This is an irrational fear of gnomes – particularly problematic, he says,  if you work in a garden centre.

Thanks for the contribution, Sam. But please, gnomore of these ‘sizeist’ new words!

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