Bill Nighy

Quite what's wrong with nozzle as a word?

I've no idea.

My team, who are in thrall to innuendo, which the thing about innuendo is that innuendo itself is an innuendo, which always amuses me.

But the word nozzle has reduced my team to a bunch of giggling messes.

I refuse to ban nozzle because nozzle is what happens at the end of a hose.

Yeah, we're not doing well here with the word nozzle.

It's floored the room.

And don't forget, if you have a word that you wish to banish from the English language, please let us know.

This episode's playlist is called, forgive me, Groove Me Like Out.

That's Groove Me Like Out, one word.

And it's called Groove Me Like Out because my friend Brendan Thomas Elliott and I, when we were young, would sometimes sign off with the postmodern ironic ancient jive talk reference Groove Me Like Out, which amused us at the time and I have to admit still amuses me now.

The use of ancient jive talk and dragging it into the modern world has always given me enormous pleasure.

And groove or groove me or groovy were words that if anyone spoke the word groovy in 1973, you left the room.

You didn't want to breathe the same air as anybody who said groovy.

I remember the first time anybody ever said to me, dig you later.

And at the time, I was appalled.

But then you see, with time, irony is introduced to the whole affair.

And dig you later becomes kind of fun.

So I have on occasion said to people, I'll dig you later.

But I always put the T in later.