The first five episodes of the twenty-second series of the BBC Radio Four comedy panel show My Word, originally broadcast in autumn 1971, featuring Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Dilys Powell and Anne Scott-James with host Jack Longland.
0:00 - Series 22 Episode 1, 27th September 1971
Definitions: Scrimshaw, Pelota, Cabochon, Tigon
Author Of The Week: Pippa Passes, Guelphs & Ghibellines, Sonnets From The Portuguese
Differences: Parasang & Parasite, Loricate & Lorikeet, Factitious & Fictitious, Presumptive & Presumptuous
Phrases: "You must take the rough with the smooth...", "Half a loaf is better than no bread..."
27:20 - Series 22 Episode 2, 4th October 1971
Definitions: Aurochs, Bombazine, Datura, Mumchance
Abbreviations: Prox. Acc., B. Th. U., stg, 12mo
Odd Man Out: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Wuthering Heights, Villette; Sinister Street, The City Of Dreadful Night, Our Street, Carnival; The Hound Of Heaven, The Garden Of Proserpine, A Forsaken Garden, When The Hounds Of Spring Are On Winter's Traces; Typee, Billy Budd, Peter Simple, Moby Dick
Collective Nouns: Starlings, Jurymen, Bread, Sheriff’s Officers
Phrases: "Appetite comes with eating...", "The two oldest professions in the world, ruined by amateurs..."
54:44 - Series 22 Episode 3, 11th October 1971
Definitions: Suable, Troat, Cenozoic, Interosculate
Author Of The Week: Captain Patrick Dalroy & Humphrey Pumph, Gabriel Syme, Father Brown
Movement Nouns: Entrechat, Telemark, Caracole, Abseil
Poetry: "And the day returns too soon, yet we'll go no more a-roving by the light of the moon...", "And all the world would stare, if wife should dine at Edmonton and I should dine at Ware...", "That every man in arms would wish to be...", "I know the scientific names of beings animalculous..."
Phrases: "To err is human, to forgive divine...", "Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness..."
1:20:06 - Series 22 Episode 4, 18th October 1971
Definitions: Batata, Ululate, Sierra, Erst
Differences: Avant-Courier & Avant-Garde, Bullace & Bullate, Charlock & Charlotte, Hubbub & Hubble-Bubble
Poetry: "Weep and you weep alone...", "Which they ate with a runcible spoon...", "Is new and neat and adequately tall...", "Whence all but he had fled..."
Phrases: "A crown is no cure for the headache...", "Honi soit qui mal y pense..."
1:47:22 - Series 22 Episode 5, 25th October 1971
Definitions: Sternutation, Midinette, Fescue, Codpiece
Who, Why & What: Death Valley, Kaaba, The Hanging Gardens, Fernando Po
Differences: Complacence & Complaisance, Ligature & Ligament, Deprecate & Depreciate, Gombeen & Gombroon
Phrases: "Believe it or not...", "Blood is thicker than water..."
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