Defenestration and depontification.

[mart]

Re-reading Patrick Leigh Fermor's great book - A Time of Gifts. Lots of lovely rarely used words.
Then I remembered there was an example of the first in one of the last episodes of The Sopranos.
This afternoon I was idly watching an Indian movie on tv when both were featured in the space of a few seconds.

Mart

[Deuce Bigolo]

Bloody big words but just shows how over bloated the english language really is if you care to go through a dictionary

Which Indians were educated enough to sprout them?
Chief Sitting bull?

Looks like an interesting tale the book you mention
Seeing Western Europe in 1933/34 before all hell broke loose through the eyes on an !8 year old

[mart]

God help the poor kids you teach if they have to suffer your patronising, what a clever dick I am attitude 5 days a week.

Mart

[Pervert]

I love the word "defenestration," but not what it entails. As a kid, I recall it being used on news programmes with reference to Prague.

[mart]

It was a Bollywood movie.
2 guys fighting in a railway carriage. One gets thrown out of the window and since the train was crossing a river it was both defen. and depont.

Read the book Deuce and the second volume Between the Woods and the Water. Unfortunately the completion of the journey hasn't been published but he's still alive and I bet I'm not alone in hoping he hasn't stopped writing.

Mart

[Deuce Bigolo]

I see,good old bollywood

He's only 92 and widowed so you'd expect he'd need something to occupy his mind.