"Is English your first language? If it is, your parents should ring Scotch and ask for the 20 grand they dropped on your education back" – Ben Doherty

 

For anyone who has read this site consistently for some time, they will have undoubtedly realised that many of the contributors to the site are not masters of the English language. It must be painful to watch us stuff up basic grammar such as ‘i before e but not after c’ and the difference between ‘threw the ball’ and ‘through the ball’, but now the time has come for us to LEARN.

 

For a while now we have had semi respected journalist Ben Doherty in our midst quietly critiquing and then viciously tearing apart our grammatical errors. Unfortunately, his formidable brain is being underutilised down at Herald Sun headquarters where the Collingwood weddings and dogs wearing hats won’t report themselves.  However, ladies and gentleman we can now happily announce that Ben’s brain will not remain flaccid and unused! Thankfully, Ben has reluctantly acquiesced to our repeated requests to have unlimited access to the inner workings of the Doherty Mind. So get ready to add lexicon to your vocabulary boys and girls because we will leave no stone unturned to bring you the most thorough and professional Dictionary on the net.

 

From now on if you hear a word that you don’t understand pop it up here or email it to oldscotchcricket@hotmail.com and it will be sent on to Ben. For a full list of words you won’t understand we recommend reading Bens incomprehensible articles or listening to him speak.

 

 

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WORDS

 

 

Word: Apocryphal

 

Definition: of dubious nature or origin

 

Used in a sentence: Chris Wood’s batting technique is apocryphal

 

 

Word: Blithely

 

Definition: happily, in a joyous manner

 

Used in a sentence: The fans clapped blithely when Hilda took 4 wickets in the Firsts and were disappointed he wasn’t picked next week

 

 

Word: Sobriquet

 

Definition: nickname, a familiar name for a person

 

Used in a sentence: The Struttler is a pathetic attempt at a sobriquet

 

 

 

Word: Straitened

 

Definition: To put or bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

 

Used in a sentence: Wood's finances have straitened considerably over the past year.

 

 

 

Word: Hamlet

 

Definition: a small village

 

Used in a sentence: Pat Butler left his quaint hamlet to start a new life in the big city.

 

 

 

Word: Plebiscite

 

Definition: A direct vote in which the entire electorate is invited to accept or refuse a proposal

 

Used in a sentence: A plebiscite was taken and in a unanimous decision Plugger was found to be a more popular captain than Rob Ashton

 

 

Word: Apropos

 

Definition: By the way; incidentally

 

Used in a sentence: “Traviss Orr slayed the birds at the Tique, apropos, did you see how pathetic Wood and Butler were riding on his coat tails.”

 

 

Word: Grandiose

 

Definition: impressive because of unnecessary grandeur

 

Used in a sentence: When Dohers uses words like grandiose it makes him feel grandiose compared to the rest of us

Word: Soporific

Definition: causing or tending to cause sleep.

Used in a sentence: this new You've Got Wood series of interviews is lame to the point of being soporific