[Jerome Betts]

Not to mention 'rinking', an early 20th century fad as indulged in by Agatha Christie.

[Ann Drysdale]

I used jinking in a poem and lots of people said I made it up. It's a Scots word, I believe, for dodging and weaving...

[Jerome Betts]

Who is to say there aren't partsof the world where they go 'skinking', i.e. looking for skinks?

[FOsen]

cue piano plinking.

[Jerome Betts]

Exactly. And why has no-one mentioned 'zincing', the process of lining something or covering something with zinc?

[Jayne Osborn]

Equally, I can't believe you're not all drinking champagne and 'clinking' your glasses!

Although we're all on the same wavelength here and 'syncing'.

(Oh, pants, John had 'clinking' - forget that one.)

[Jayne Osborn]

Now I'm thinking, is everyone else but John shrinking from this blinking comp?

[John Whitworth]

I'll give you jinking, Ann. In my youth I went to Murrayfield where a little man called Dickie Jeeps was well known for his jinking. He was English though, the swine.

planking, plinking. plonking, plunking - plenking anybody. Plenking is a posh person's planking perhaps?

What, if anything, is shanking?

[Ann Drysdale]

I don't think one zincs - surely one galvanises?

[Jerome Betts]

Have at you, Ann. If one possesses Cassell's New French-English Dictionary (1968) one discovers that zincage n.m. is 'Covering with zinc; zinking, zinc-plating.' Ze French know about zeze things, I tell you.

To show there are no hard feelings, I will now furnish you with that rhyme for gorilla you always wanted, viz zorilla, 'a flesh-eating African mammal, Ictonyx striatus, of the skunk and the weasel family'.

Zinc you, and good morning.