I’ve said it before — and I’ll say it again — English is a delightful language. You have words that are spelt similarly but pronounced differently. As in this sentence: “The bandage was wound around the wound.” They’re called heteronyms. You also have words that are pronounced the same but spelt differently. For instance, beach and beech or tire and tyre. They’re called homonyms. This means that just because you know how to speak it, you don’t necessarily know how to write English or, if you can spell it correctly, that’s no guarantee you can pronounce it properly.

I recently received an email informing me of archaic English words that we could usefully revive and use today. They’re as pertinent now as they were a few centuries ago. You may not find them in the shorter Oxford Dictionary but they’re on Google. These days that seems to matter more!

Fudgel is one. It means pretending to work whilst actually doing nothing. I have to say I’m rather good at that. So too were........

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