Not really, at least not from me.
I know there are a couple of posters on here who like to play with words, and I do as well, if in a very limited way. The thing I like to do is occasionally introduce a rarely used word and see if it gets taken up by others. I will also use less common words in conversation, not to appear clever [because one person did suggest that a time back], but to resurrect the word to see if it can fly again. An example is the word
Singular. If you hear Billy Connolly, he will always talk about
extraordinary things. Things are extraordinary to him. One jump back from extraordinary, is perhaps singular. So I tried using it. It didn't catch on.
One word that did catch on, and I'm claiming it, is
Excellent, as in
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. In the late 1970's a mate and me used to play these kind of word games and we'd use words in a pub to see if they'd catch on. A bit like I still do. We used
excellent for eveything. How are you..? I'm excellent..! What's she like..? She's excellent..! How was riding the bike..? That was excellent..! Pretty soon [about 6 months], everywhere we went, people were using the word just like we did, so we dropped it to see if it would fly by itself. Then a mutual friend of ours, who was now using it a lot, went over to the USA. Pretty soon he got everyone he met up with using it over there. Years later, it returned with Bill & Ted. You'll notice the way they say excellent..? Although it was slightly americanised, that was exactly the way we pronounced it. Started by my mate and me, in The Cowherds pub.
