Twenty thousand words...utter blethers!

[mahler10th]

Well, I just reached 2,000 posts here.  It is troublesome.  If there are ten words in every post, that is a minimum of 20,000 words I have written about 'Classical' music in GMG alone.  It is troublesome because I'm lucky if I've ever said 20,000 words throughout my life on the subject conversing with other folks. 
The thing is, it's just 20,000 blethers most of the time...I love blethering.

Noun 1. blether - idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
chin music, idle talk, prate, prattle
chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak, cackle - noisy talk
Verb 1. blether - to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"
blather, blither, smatter, babble
blabber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle, gabble, gibber, blab, clack, maunder, chatter - speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2008 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

[Cato]

Well, I just reached 2,000 posts here.... love blethering.

Don't forget to haver as well!   

[DavidW]

Congratulations!  This is always a good forum for blathering on!

[snyprrr]

I feel yer pain!

[karlhenning]

ubloobideega!

[ibanezmonster]

ubloobideega!

Yes, and don't forget, Blather Lather!

[Opus106]

Stop blethering* and just show us the damn album cover pics, all right?



*Firefox's en-GB dictionary does not consider the word as a valid one.

[mahler10th]

From one of the finest (allegedly) dictionaries in the World...The Oxford English Dictionary.

blether, blather, v. Sc. and north. dial.
(ˈblɛðə(r), ˈblæðə(r))
Also (?) 6 blother.
[ME. blather, a. ON. blaðra to talk stupidly, f. blaðr nonsense. Blather is the etymological form, blether being Sc. and north. Eng. (like gether = gather etc.). But in mod.Eng., the word is generally accepted as Scotch (from Burns, Scott, Carlyle, etc.) and in the Scotch form. In U.S. blather appears to be more frequent.]
1. intr. To talk nonsense loquaciously.
   1524 A. Scott Vision xix, And limpand Vulcan blethers.    [1526 Skelton Magnyf. 1049, I blunder, I bluster, I blowe and I blother.]    1787 Burns Holy Fair viii, Some are busy blethrin Right loud that day.    1867 E. Waugh Owd Bl. iv. 89 in Lanc. Gloss., He blether't abeawt religion.    1884 Punch 1 Mar. 102 Fluent folly may maunder and blether.
b. trans. To babble.
   1810 Tannahill Poems (1846) 145 She blethered it round.
2. intr. To cry loudly, to blubber. dial.
   1863 Mrs. Toogood Yorksh. Dial. s.v., What's thou blethering at? child.    1855 Whitby Gloss., Blether, to blubber, to weep aloud.

OED...hang on, this should be in Catos thread...
Note the word Scotch.  Scotch is insulting to a Scotsman.  Scotch is a made up name for Whisky.  Other than that, it has nothing to do with Scotland, we didn't even invent the word 'Scotch'.  So OED is wrong I'm afraid.  We, a wee nation of 5 milllion or so, are SCOTS.  Being called a Scotchman or a Scotchwoman is as nonsense as calling Pakistani a Pakchman or a Pakchwoman.  Or something like that....