CharlesT wrote:Tinto63 wrote:Compleat / compleation / compleatist / compleating : all pretentious and antediluvian.
Do I detect a hint of irony in your use of antediluvian or are you just being provocatively pretentious or maybe pretentiously provocative?
Absolutely, however you wish to interpret my post will be correct.......although I notice that antediluvian does not feature in Gowers' Plain Words. And neither does compleat, indeed the full title is 'The Complete
Plain Words'.