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My Word - Series 29 Episode 3, 1978

The second of two surviving episodes from the twenty-ninth series of the BBC Radio Four comedy panel show My Word, featuring Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Dilys Powell and Anne Scott-James with new host John Julius Norwich, and first broadcast in autumn 1978. Definitions: Sparable, Barbola, Catenary, Eclectic Origins: Nine Days Wonder, Abominable, Sure As Eggs Is Eggs, Purple Patch What Is It: Onychophagist Misquotations: "Our birth is but a sleep and a beginning, the soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting..." "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its fragrance on the desert air...", "Under a spreading chestnut tree, the village smithy stands; the smith, a mighty man is he, with large and brawny hands...", "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the bows and arrows of outrageous fortune..." Phrases: "Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner...", "Thanks for the memory..."