I wonder if there is a place or landmark associated with London whose name begins with x. I'm no help because I can't think of a Y either and I'm sure there's a huge choice.

Yeomen

Very good. Why didn't I think about them. I got as far as the Tower of London.

You should have looked inside.

I'd do z but then I'd have to do an a again.

Zoo, of course. Again!

 

Darius uses some weird or old fashioned words in some of his songs

 

let's do an alphabet of interesting words

 

aardvark - I've loved that word since I first encountered it, but I'm not sure I'd know one if I saw it.

bedazzled

carmudgeon

dragooned. I have visions of dragons swallowing people whole. I have a vivid and not always nice imagination.

epistle - I've always found that a strange word for a what is basically a letter

fromage - I know it's a normal word but, it could not be.

gerrymandering

It's got to be

 

 

happenstance

I wonder why

 

 

I like this one - infundibular

what on earth does that mean? I'm going to have to find a dictionary.

it means stove in or concave

 

 

and it's your turn for j

Anyone can join in ......please?

 

jaundice

 

I really going to have to find my dictionary. I got it as my Maths prize when I was at school. I shouldn't really have misplaced it.

I'd forgotten about this thread sitting on page 2. Sorry.

 

 

kowtow

 

(not to be confused with Pow Wow - I was a Brownie, you know.)

Next week, I will find a dictionary.

 

You'll have to put up with languid for now.

hope my spelling's OK

 

misogynist

 

I 'd hate to meet one but I do like the sound of the word - miserable gin-swilling SOB