23rd December 2016, 9:25 AM
Call me old fashioned but I prefer the term "pack rat" to "hoarder". The latter is barely pronounceable, it just keeps sounding like "hoard", and the former has more character. Also, I prefer "normality" to "normalcy" and just generally hate all the new weird turns of phrase like "not in my wheelhouse" (what the garbage is a wheelhouse?).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)