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Mind your language

Why do we diminish ‘compendious’?

29 March 2025

9:00 AM

29 March 2025

9:00 AM

My husband has been telling me, at some length, about the Gamages Christmas catalogue that fired his childhood imagination and boyish avarice. One item promised infinite entertainment in a box: the Compendium of Games.

Fundamentally it was a folding board, squared for chess and draughts on one side, marked for backgammon on the other.

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