Oliver Jarvis

Currently working as Compliance Officer at Magdalen College School, Oxford

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@rickygervais Crying with laughter 😂😂

[All about Steve @1StevieKilner]

@RevRichardColes And a festival for fans of the Moody Blues since 1967.

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@RevRichardColes @Baddiel The positioning of the sausage !

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@joe_exotic Happy Birthday Joe! Hope you find a way to get out soon.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

What word is your spelling nemesis?

This is a safe space.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the Day (again) is ‘quiddling’ (18th century): busying oneself with trivial tasks as a way of avoiding the important ones.

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Word of the Day: BEDUNDERED (adj.) stupefied, utterly confounded

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@JustStop_Oil Well done! Keep it up @JustStop_Oil

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

A(nother) quick reminder of the ‘snaccident’: the inadvertent eating of an entire packet of biscuits/crisps/etc. when you meant to have just the one.

(Apparently you can have a ‘gincident’ too.)

[Oliver Jarvis @GlobalPCE]

Starting a new job today: Compliance Officer at Magdalen College School, Oxford.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘quafftide’(16th century): a one-word announcement that it’s time for a drink.

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To PESSUNDATE something is to utterly destroy it.

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A BIBLIOPOLIST is a bookseller.
A MYROPOLIST is a perfume seller.
An OPOROPOLIST is a fruit seller.
A LACHANOPOLIST is a vegetable seller.
A TRAGEMATOPOLIST is a sweet seller.
A XYLOPOLIST is a wood seller.
A PAPYROPOLIST is a paper seller.
A THERMOPOLIST is a seller of hot food.

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Someone who is TENDER-EARED is extremely sensitive to criticism or ridicule.

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Word of the Day: AFTERCLAP (n.) an unwelcome return, the unwanted recurrence of something thought to be over; literally, a second rumble of thunder

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@JustStop_Oil These guys are heroes and have my full support. The world is being destroyed around us so protests like these need to be ever more extreme, ever more disruptive, until the governments of this planet act.

[Collins Dictionary @CollinsDict]

#wordoftheday ORTHOGRAPHY - 1. N. a writing system. 2. N. spelling considered to be correct; the principles underlying spelling. 3. N. the study of spelling. 4. N. orthographic projection.

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A PLUMICORN is a horn-like tuft of feathers.