OK Fred, Now you're a yaga-yaga... Or 'the unusual vocabulary thread'

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There is no doubt that I've picked up a lot of vocabulary from listening to music down the years. For example, I would never have known what a yaga-yaga is had it not been for Errol Dunkley. What weird words have you learnt? Is there any vocabulary you would like fellow ILM contributors to help you with?

― Daniel, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard the yaga-yaga thing is based around the word gay backwards...at least, that's what was said at school the time. Which version did you hear.

About a year ago, I spent ages trying to find out what pompitous meant...I find The Joker annoying enough as it is, for a start. I did a google search for the word, & all I got was Steve Miller lyrics! I then found out that he'd misheard the phrase properties of love in an old soul record.

I'm still unsure about most of the lyrics in See My Baby Jive...

― Jez, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

jez look here

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember Smash Hits or Record Mirror having a piece about the fact that the word 'instinction', as in Spandau Ballet's Trevor Horn- produced hit of the same name in 1982, doesn't actually exist in English.

― Darren, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One website explains yaga-yaga as 'a carefree person'.

― daniel, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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