Handbags   (The sad, the bad and the ugly. Non-productive stuff here.)

There are a few repeats of Morecambe and Wise Christmas shows doing the rounds at the moment.

there's a belting running joke in the 1975 one where Ernie Wise takes the role of Saumuel Pepys, writing a play.

He's repeatedly shown with quill in hand scribbling away and voicing his thoughts.

Every now and then he mentions a word, then sayes "I like that, that's a good word, I'll use that".

But

He never can spell the words, so substitutes them for easier ones to write.

Nowt to do with owt, really. But it reminds me of the 'new word' threads.